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HiHo HiHo It's Off To Work We Go: Work Songs #2 - The Fabulous Fats Domino

Posted over 4 years ago
You just have to love Fats. I first heard a cover of this tune by Dave Edmunds and, after hearing another oldie by Fats on the radio, finally broke down and got to buy and hear the original. For all of you heading off to, at, or returning from work this Monday...
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Comments (13)

  1. RockRoll43
    RockRoll43 says I found my thrill on Mogberry Hill ---
    Permalink posted 06/18/2007
  2. RockRoll43
    RockRoll43 says ( OK let's try this again )--->>>I found my thrill on MogBerry Hill....
    Permalink posted 06/18/2007
  3. B42
    B42 says ~K5tlfnkBqY8.mp3~ Sorry, had to do it...
    Permalink posted 06/18/2007
  4. Lyrikhan
    Lyrikhan says good stuff....also cool to see Fats still gets out and plays at 79 years of age
    Permalink posted 06/18/2007
  5. Girlcrawl
    Girlcrawl says Great song (love Fats) for a Monday; - nice post!
    Permalink posted 06/18/2007
  6. soulrocket
    soulrocket says oh, yeah. now we are talking! anything new orleans sounds just cool. some of fats records have been a bit overplayed over the years but he is a good one. a good mondays tune indeed. i am bringing the very rare first 7" ~nenrkoEf7sB.mp3~
    Permalink posted 06/18/2007
  7. 2Serenity
    2Serenity says Gotta give it up to Fats Domino. He influenced and continues to influence so many. Did you know he was lost during the Katrina situation but fortunately he was found. I was scared. That's my homeboy. I wonder throughout the decades since this song how many other artists have written and sung a song about just getting paid or hating Mondays? I am sure quite a bit! I cannot think of the name of the singer who had a popular soul pop hit which had the chorus: Just Got Paid. It' Friday Night. Oh..just found it - Johnny Kemp in 1988 - Just Got Paid. So he did the flip side to the song. Here are the lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83
    Permalink posted 06/19/2007
  8. Spike
    Spike says Fats Domino had a much bigger influence over white rock and roll singers in Louisiana than Elvis did. This is despite the fact that Elvis got his first big break performing regularly for the popular Louisiana Hayride shows broadcast from Shreveport. Listen to Warren Storm, one of my favorites of the bunch. ~ONcTj6LDEbh.mp3~ !http://mog.com/images/users/0000/0000/9045 Some of his other early songs were “No No,” “Troubles Troubles” and “So Long, So Long.” (No kidding.) People interested in this type of music might enjoy the CD Louisiana Saturday Night (Ace CDCHD 490)(’93) which has early tracks by Warren Storm, Johnny Allan, Rod Bernard, Bobby Charles and Frankie Ford, among others. Not included are other greats like Jimmy Donley, Mac Rebennack, Jimmy Clanton and T.K. Hulin. All of them have Fats Domino’s sound in them. Here's one of T. K. Hulin's rare L.K. label 45's. A while back, I wrote to various labels trying to get them to reissue his L.K. recordings. ~7s0qXjL2fFZ.mp3~
    Permalink posted 06/19/2007
  9. 2Serenity
    2Serenity says Ooh..Thank you for the history lesson and I am glad you said it as opposed to me! One thing and I really need to get some her albums is that Big Mama Thornton was a huge influence on Elvis but not many people know that. She wrote, "It Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog."
    Permalink posted 06/19/2007
  10. Spike
    Spike says What a great clip! Buddy Guy on guitar, even. She was one of the earliest electric blues singers to hit the white circuit. In the mid-60's my parents took me to hear her at a jazz club on Divisadero Street in San Francisco, and sitting behind us was a group of black jazz aficionados laughing at her because she wasn't "jazzy" enough, too down-home. I remember seeing Muddy Waters and his band around that time (1967?) at the Electric Circus in Greenwich Village, and he played jazz-blues because that's what his black audiences had wanted. Finally some white guy stood up and yelled at him to play one of his old songs, and he dutifully played a bottleneck guitar number. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller wrote "Hound Dog" for Thornton, and later many songs for Elvis. In recent years so much obscure country music and rockabilly from the fifties has been reissued, including four or five terrible versions of "Hound Dog" recorded after Thornton but before Elvis. But Little Esther (Phillips) had a great version from back then.
    Permalink posted 06/20/2007
  11. Sturgell
    Sturgell says You can set your watch to Fats. What a guy!
    Permalink posted 06/21/2007
  12. Anonymous says classic, great post! :D
    Permalink posted 06/21/2007
  13. freezerguy
    freezerguy says Hey, really like that guy, hadn't heard about him before :)
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007

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