As Carl Perkins later said, “In the white honky-tonks where I was playin’, they were punchin’ ‘Blueberry Hill.’ And white cats were dancin’ to Fats Domino.” It ended up being Domino’s biggest hit and broadened his audience once and for all. Producer Dave Bartholomew thought it was a terrible idea but lost the argument. But Domino drew on the 1949 Louis Armstrong version when he had run out of material at a session. “Blueberry Hill” was first recorded in 1940 by several artists, including Gene Autry and Glenn Miller. Who cares about what’s his name with the white buck shoes?” Pat Boone’s whitebread cover (which Boone allegedly wanted to be titled “Isn’t That a Shame”) reached Number One, but as Jerry Wexler put it, “Fats Domino is still the thing. In the summer of 1955, “Ain’t That a Shame” became Domino’s first pop smash, after a string of R&B hits. John and Percy Sledge, among many others. “When you’re around me/I’m full of misery all day.” The song was later covered by Little Richard, Dr. “Goin’ home tomorrow/Can’t stand your evil ways,” he sings against a hard-swinging half-time blues groove.
As Langdon Winner writes in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, this tune, recorded in 1949, is a “poorly disguised version of the old barrelhouse standard ‘Junker’s Blues,'” but Domino imbues it with quick gait and lascivious lyrics that turn the lament about being chained to drugs into a beaming, libidinal boast that turns Domino into the original Overweight Lover on his first 10-inch single.ĭomino scored his first R&B Number One with this forlorn cut, a farewell to a troublesome lover co-written with Alvin E. Such stories of perseverance and success are not accidental.This rollicking two minutes and 37 seconds exploded out of New Orleans as a mix of Delta blues melody and boogie-woogie piano, of sexual energy and free-floating flights of jazz-touched vocal fancy, of Domino’s hard-pounding piano rhythm and a young Earl Palmer’s steady backbeat – in essence, one of the first rock & roll records in existence. We salute both Fresh Nutz and Domino’s Pizza and wish them continued success. In late 2019, Domino’s celebrated its 20th year in Saint Lucia.
Or Leslie Clarke, whose pioneering spirit of enterprise saw him capitalizing on a business offer that resulted in his owning a slice of the Domino’s story. Take, for example, the case of Miguel Clifford, whose Fresh Nutz coconut water continues to quench our thirst while fulfilling his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Over the past six months since we launched the very first issue of our SLYOU Magazine, we have been able to meet people who truly embody the Saint Lucian dream: perseverance, community spirit and service.Įven within the pages of this current issue are such bright gems. As the past year gives way to the new, the SLYOU Marketing team hopes that our readers, advertisers and supporters will – like us - continue to challenge themselves to become even better.
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