Domino also transformed other writers’ songs. Who could forget how Fats adopted Gene Austin’s venerable 1927 pop classic “My Blue Heaven” (a song that even blues icon Robert Johnson had in his ...

Classic rock star Fats Domino recorded a song by one of The Monkees’ regular songwriters. Notably, the song in question became a huge hit for Domino. During a passage from his memoir, another one of ...

The most popular song in his voluminous catalog is “Ain’t That A Shame,” co-written by Domino and Dave Bartholomew, a songwriter and producer for Domino’s label through the early ‘60s, Imperial ...

Fats Domino, born and raised in New Orleans, was surrounded by music as a child. “New Orleans produces a disproportionately large amount of talented musicians and it really comes up with the raw ...

Fats Domino is dead at the age of 89, which means a minimum of two things: 1) New Orleans is about to have the most incredible funeral procession anyone has ever dreamed of, and 2) Anyone who has ever ...

Antoine “Fats” Domino, the iconic New Orleans singer-songwriter whose piano-playing sound and smiling face entertained generations of audiences around the world and introduced an unmistakable rock and ...

Antoine “Fats” Domino Jr., the pianist, singer and lifelong New Orleanian who was among the most successful but also the most modest of rock ’n' roll's founding fathers, died Tuesday at his home in ...

Some gems from the life’s work of people remembered in obituaries in The New York Times. By Daniel J. Wakin Mr. Bartholomew, a producer, arranger, composer, trumpet player and bandleader, was best ...

The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina only emphasized the fact that New Orleans was perhaps the wellspring of popular music in the 20 th Century-the source, or a major tributary, of jazz, blues, gospel, ...