My Blue Heaven: The Best Of Fats Domino

Fats Domino | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00000DRAF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,756 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #84 in Music > R&B > Classic R&B

Track Listings

1. My Blue Heaven

2. The Fat Man

3. Please Don't Leave Me

4. Ain't That a Shame

5. I'm in Love Again

6. When My Dreamboat Comes Home

7. Blueberry Hill

8. Blue Monday

9. I'm Walkin'

10. Valley of Tears

11. The Big Beat

12. Yes, My Darling

13. Whole Lotta Lovin'

14. I'm Ready

15. I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday

16. I Want to Walk You Home

17. Be My Guest

18. Walking to New Orleans

19. Let the Four Winds Blow

20. What a Party

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 40 minutes of pure happiness in 20 songs..., June 5, 2002

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William E. Adams (Midland, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Blue Heaven: The Best Of Fats Domino (Audio CD)

If Buddy Holly proved you could be skinny, geeky and wear glasses and still become a rock star, then Fats proved you could be plump, black, and stay seated at the piano and be a rock star...if enough talent was there. His songs are brief and simple but perfectly effective...some of them jump, some are ballads, some have fine lyrics, most have super keyboarding and a few have a wailing sax that really grooves. I am old enough to remember when most of the hits on this disc first came out, but even if you are not, you'll still enjoy them: "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" and "Blueberry Hill" and "I'm Walkin'" and "Valley of Tears" and "Walking to New Orleans" are the most famous. My favorite is "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday", which I recall singing to myself when I had a hopeless crush on a girl in 10th grade who was far above my station. Also great are "Ain't It a Shame" and "I Want to Walk You Home" and just about all the others. Fats got his start in R & B when it was still called "race music", a few years before "Rock 'N Roll" became the immortal phrase. He bridged both worlds easily. He was a giant, and not just in the waistline. No collection of "Fifties Rock" can leave him out.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the original party men., July 11, 1999

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This review is from: My Blue Heaven: The Best Of Fats Domino (Audio CD)

For a great overview of the man's career, this, as far as I know, is about the best there is, and at a good price. He wasn't as rowdy as Little Richard, but his good times are just as fun and there is no denying that he is among the best of the artists of the 50's. You just want to smile while listening to the drawl and the great piano stylings of Fats. He packed more fun into his two minute singles(sometimes less) than just about anybody. It feels like he's winking when he plays and that's a compliment. There's also great sax playing on these songs, and there is just a great sense of that New Orleans good times whenever you play Fats. If you want to hear one of the greats of the 50's, listen to Fats. If you're ever feelin' down and need someone to make you smile, this is your ticket to good times.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These Songs Will Put You In Heaven, May 20, 2000

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Blue Heaven: The Best Of Fats Domino (Audio CD)

The Crescent City has produced a wealth of talent over the decades: Professor Longhair, The Neville Brothers, Lloyd Price, Dr. John, but none has dominated the pop charts like pianist Fats Domino, who with writing partner and producer Dave Barthalomew, placed more than thirty singles on the pop charts between "Ain't That a Shame" in 1955 and "What a Party" in 1961, selling 65 million records along the way--only Elvis sold more records than "The Fat Man" during the same period.

Domino's boogie-woogie piano and R&B vocals propelled such hits as "I'm in Love Again," "Blueberry Hill" (one of the few singles he didn't write), "Blue Monday," "I'm Walkin'," "Whole Lotta Loving" and "Walking to New Orleans," his final Top 10 from 1960. This collection even includes a couple of his early R&B hits: 1949's "The Fat Man" and 1953's "Please Don't Leave Me."

Although he wasn't the showman that contemporaries like Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis were, his impact on the formative years of rock 'n' roll made him a shoe-in for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame's first class of inductees in 1986.

These are all original Imperial recordings and this CD is an excellent overview of a prolific career. If you need more, try tracking down EMI's out-of-print 4-CD They Call Me the Fat Man from 1991. ESSENTIAL