"Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino Hand Signed 3X5 Picture Page

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"Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino Hand Signed 3X5 Picture Page.
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Antoine Dominique Domino Jr.
(February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as
Fats Domino
, was an American pianist and singer-songwriter. One of the pioneers of
rock and roll
music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in
New Orleans
to a
French Creole
family, Domino signed to
Imperial 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.
Domino was shy and modest by nature but made a significant contribution to the rock and roll genre.
Elvis Presley
declared Domino a "huge influence on me when I started out" and described him as "the real king of rock 'n' roll" The artist himself did not define his work as rock and roll, saying of the genre "It wasn't anything but the same
rhythm and blues
I'd been playing down in New Orleans". Four of Domino's records were named to the
Grammy Hall of Fame
for their significance: "
Blueberry Hill
", "
Ain't That A Shame
", "
Walking to New Orleans
" and "The Fat Man".He was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
as part of its first group of inductees in 1986. The
Associated Press
estimates that during his career, Domino "sold more than 110 million records".