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Remembering New Orleans own Fats Domino born on this day in music. 🎶

Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, one of the pioneers of Rock n’ Roll, Domino sold more than 65 million records. In 1949 his first single “The Fat Man” is cited by some historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies. Domino continued to work with the song’s co-writer Dave Bartholomew, contributing his distinctive rolling piano style to Lloyd Price’s “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” (1952) and scoring a string of mainstream hits beginning with “Ain’t That a Shame” (1955). Between 1955 and 1960, he had eleven Top 10 US pop hits. By 1955, five of his records had sold more than a million copies, being certified gold. He toured worldwide!

Here’s Al with Fats back in 2015.

Rex rolling down St. Charles Ave. at Canal St.