Check out 'Blueberry Hill'...good innings...RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Though he was already passed to be honest. Don't know much about him but would have thought he was a legendary figure? R.I.P.

hampsteadclaret wrote:Check out 'Blueberry Hill'...good innings...RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQCPrwKzdo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Spadesclaret's favourite song I believe

From 'The Independent'...

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 19341.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

mkmel wrote:Spadesclaret's favourite song I believe

Not necessarily my favourite - there have been so many great songs over the decades - but it was certainly the first record (78rpm) I bought in about 1956/7.

RIP Fats.

RIP to a great blues/rock 'n' roll original.
Be My Guest.
https://youtu.be/ZgS827eRUHA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Wasn't he the guy who was supposed to board the doomed plane with buddy holly but drew the short straw?

Ain't that a shame !!

With Chuck Berry passing this year, it now leaves only Little Richard, Don Everly and Jerry Lee Lewis, of the original Rock 'n' Roll heavy weights left !!

My favourite Fat's phonographic output..

Fats Domino- 'I'm Walking To New Orleans'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1z45jVlM34" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

gandhisflipflop wrote:Wasn't he the guy who was supposed to board the doomed plane with buddy holly but drew the short straw?

No, you’re thinking of the Big Bopper

ClaretCliff wrote:No, you’re thinking of the Big Bopper

the Big Bopper was killed on that fatal plane trip.

Good innings Fats,RIP.

His family queued up to see him before he passed, however those at the front of the queue fainted with the sad news

Only talking about him the other day having watched the programme on him a few weeks ago on BBC4. Great entertainer and had a good life entertaining so many people for a long time.

spadesclaret wrote:the Big Bopper was killed on that fatal plane trip.

Yes, you’re right. Not thinking straight! It was one of the crickets whose name escapes me - Waylon Jennings perhaps?

gandhisflipflop wrote:Wasn't he the guy who was supposed to board the doomed plane with buddy holly but drew the short straw?

No, that was Waylon Jennings...he was playing bass Guitar for Holly on that tour. JP Richardson AKA " The Big Bopper ", ( Chantilly lace ! ) had started with Flu syptoms and mithered Jennings to let him go in his place, to which he agreed, virtually at the last minute..

Holly had shouted to Jennings as he left for the Airport, " Hope your Bus breaks down !! ", Jennings laughingly shouted back, " I hope your damn Plane crashes !! ", two young Lads messing about, but that last conversation haunted Jennings for the rest of his life..
Waylon Jennings is not widely known in Britain, but became a legend in the United States as part of the Outlaw Country music scene with Willie Nelson..

He's best known over here ,to anybody over 45ish, for performing the theme to the original " Dukes of Hazzard " series, and being it's " Narrator " . Of course, that series brought " Daisy Dukes " and Catherine Bach's legs to the attention of a grateful generation of teenage boys, myself included !!

ClaretCliff wrote:Yes, you’re right. Not thinking straight! It was one of the crickets whose name escapes me - Waylon Jennings perhaps?

That is correct it was Waylon Jennings

Yes you're right about Waylon Jennings who felt very guilty about events, long after the plane crash.

WJ died in 2002 from health complications related to diabetes.


Ritchie Valens was another who perished on the fated flight....'Come on let's go'..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHQ8wI6BlVE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I’m half way through watching the bbc4 documentary mentioned above. I’ve always liked Fats Domino but hadn’t appreciated just how influential he was on the transition from RnB to Rock & Roll.

Clarets4me wrote:Ain't that a shame !!

With Chuck Berry passing this year, it now leaves only Little Richard, Don Everly and Jerry Lee Lewis, of the original Rock 'n' Roll heavy weights left !!

Elvis??!!?

Legend, once sat behind him and his band on a plane. The double bass had a seat all to it's self.

Legend, once sat behind him and his band on a plane. The double bass had a seat all to it's self.

claretblue wrote:Elvis??!!?

He died in 1977.

Clarets4me wrote:Ain't that a shame !!

With Chuck Berry passing this year, it now leaves only Little Richard, Don Everly and Jerry Lee Lewis, of the original Rock 'n' Roll heavy weights left !!

The amazing thing is that Jerry Lee Lewis is still going!

And you forget about Wee Willie Harris - he’s still going strong

Saxoman wrote:He died in 1977.

No!

[quote="ClaretCliff"]The amazing thing is that Jerry Lee Lewis is still going!

he married young!

claretblue wrote:No!

I think you need to re read his post to acertain why Elvis wasn't mentioned.

Hampstead. so, who's next on your hit list? all these deaths you report on on here. a genuine interest in musicians? or is there something a bit more sinister going on?

Another legend leaves us.
R.I.P Fats.

Sad news RIP

Never left home in new Orleans, so possibly never get mixed up in the excesses of rock and roll, thereby enabling to live a long life. Interesting character, I'm gonna read a bit more on him I think.

28...biggles....really..? - any need for all those 'smilies'?

How in heavens name is it my 'hit list'? How does that work?..sinister?

Like a lot of people on this forum, I listen to a lot of music.
I read a lot about music.
It is one of my main hobbies/interests.

I have some form of news on most of the day, if I am at home.

Consequently if there is a death of someone, mentioned on the news, I will hear about it pretty early on.

** I hope all of that, is okay with you..

hampsteadclaret wrote:28...biggles....really..? - any need for all those 'smilies'?

How in heavens name is it my 'hit list'? How does that work?..sinister?

Like a lot of people on this forum, I listen to a lot of music.
I read a lot about music.
It is one of my main hobbies/interests.

I have some form of news on most of the day, if I am at home.

Consequently if there is a death of someone, mentioned on the news, I will hear about it pretty early on.

** I hope all of that, is okay with you..

Its a significant passing, esp for a music fan. 'Biggles' is a plank.

It's just become a bit sinister as the 'Been Liked' indicator has clicked over to...666..

hampsteadclaret wrote:It's just become a bit sinister as the 'Been Liked' indicator has clicked over to...666..

Ah, not a saxo fan? OK, you're a music fan. I forgive you.

Goes without saying, but without these early rock n roll/ Blues musicians from the deep South, of whom Fats Domino was certainly one, they'd have be no Beatles/ Who/ Stones, etc and co in the 60's in Britain.

Pure, beautiful, timeless sounds.

50 shades of Grey wrote:Goes without saying, but without these early rock n roll/ Blues musicians from the deep South, of whom Fats Domino was certainly one, they'd have be no Beatles/ Who/ Stones, etc and co in the 60's in Britain.

Pure, beautiful, timeless sounds.

Even punk wouldn't exist if it werent for rock and roll.

'Even punk wouldn't exist if it werent for rock and roll.'

Punk is rock n roll, just a variation on the theme.

I knew the big bopper died instead I had just had it in my mind that Fats Domino was supposed to be there. I stand corrected cheers!

I bought a live recording of Blueberry Hill by Fats in Timothy Whites in Burnley in 1971 and couldn't stop playing it! I've actually still got it. Jerry Lee Lewis was also on that live gig album and I was truly hooked and I've been listening to him ever since.

Timothy Whites, bl**dy hell that takes me back.

Here is Fats showing his genial nature and true colours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU9f_MUBCSs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

one for Dave Edmunds.

A true great of early Rock and Roll has passed. Rock in Peace Antoine.

levraiclaret wrote:Timothy Whites, bl**dy hell that takes me back.

I THINK it (Timothy Whites) was on the corner where Superdrug is now?? Or maybe the next block next to Samuels which is a phone shop? It had 2 separate entrances, one on the side and one on the front or am I getting mixed up? It was a big shop.

Here is his first hit from 1949 "The Fat Man"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx_2Kxx ... cpPWJVtse2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some say this is the first Rock and Roll record,

Dark Cloud wrote:I THINK it (Timothy Whites) was on the corner where Superdrug is now?? Or maybe the next block next to Samuels which is a phone shop? It had 2 separate entrances, one on the side and one on the front or am I getting mixed up? It was a big shop.

Yeh the problem is I have lived away for 40 years and have no idea where Superdrug is!

levraiclaret wrote:Yeh the problem is I have lived away for 40 years and have no idea where Superdrug is!

It's next to Boots!

levraiclaret wrote:Here is his first hit from 1949 "The Fat Man"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx_2Kxx ... cpPWJVtse2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some say this is the first Rock and Roll record,

Seems very rythym and blues, ala Jools Holland. Hard to believe its from 1949.

Dark Cloud wrote:It's next to Boots!

Yeh that helps. Now I'm trying to remember where Boots is/was. M&S is in the same place.

jesus christ Hampstead. get a sense of humour. why so defensive?

levraiclaret wrote:Yeh that helps. Now I'm trying to remember where Boots is/was. M&S is in the same place.

Pretend you're driving down Manchester Road, go past the Town Hall and the Mechanics, you go through the lights past the Big Window, and the old " Burnley Express " Office on the corner, your brakes fail, you career past Burtons on your left...go straight on and you'll go straight through Boots' main entrance....