Fats Domino, RIP

[jimsumner]

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...ies-89-n814186

[devildeac]

Quite a career.

"Though we're apart
You're part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill"

RIP.

[rsvman]

Didn't he have a tie-in to Duke basketball? Didn't one of his relatives play for the women's team or something?

[devildeac]

Didn't he have a tie-in to Duke basketball? Didn't one of his relatives play for the women's team or something?

Perhaps you're thinking of this connection and have things a bit "twisted":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistie_Bass

[jimsumner]

Here's a more-detailed obit.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-at-89-w473594

He made his first record in 1949!! There are still some folks around who recorded in the 1950s-Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, Sonny Rollins, Don Everly, et. al--but there can't be many left from the 1940s.

[dudog84]

Ain't that a shame.

[OldPhiKap]

I remember that he was missing for awhile after Katrina, and was glad to hear that he had made it through the storm.

A full life and great career.

Thanks for the thrills.

[weezie]

That jam session in heaven just welcomed a great keyboardist.

[DU82]

Here's a more-detailed obit.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...-at-89-w473594

He made his first record in 1949!! There are still some folks around who recorded in the 1950s-Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, Sonny Rollins, Don Everly, et. al--but there can't be many left from the 1940s.

There's Doris Day (first hit in 1945) but I can't think of too many others.

[jimsumner]

There's Doris Day (first hit in 1945) but I can't think of too many others.

Yep. She counts. 95 and going strong. Or at least still going.

And apparently Tony Bennett made a few minor records in 1949 under a nom de plume

Off course, Tony Bennett is a nom de plume.

[devildeac]

There's Doris Day (first hit in 1945) but I can't think of too many others.

Vic Damone.

[-jk]

There was a bar in Durham, back in the 70's, called "Blueberry Hill". My father found himself there, once upon a time, with a crowd he really wasn't expecting. Live and learn! (though he often struggled with that pairing)...

I've never heard the song the same way since.

-jk

[duke4ever19]

There was a bar in Durham, back in the 70's, called "Blueberry Hill". My father found himself there, once upon a time, with a crowd he really wasn't expecting. Live and learn! (though he often struggled with that pairing)...

I've never heard the song the same way since.

-jk

The most trouble I ever got in as a child was telling my mother a dirty joke I'd heard from some neighborhood kid about a girl named "Blueberry Hill." The beginning of the song's lyrics can clue you in to what the point of the joke was.

My mother dragged me down the street to the boy's house and then his mother was notified of what kind of things we boys thought were "humorous."

I didn't play with him so much after that. He ended up being a baseball player. Played a couple seasons in the majors, but I don't know what happened to him after he left the sport.

[devildeac]

Probably hadn't been there in 15 years or more but I remember a pretty good tap list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebe...l_(restaurant)

[devildeac]

One of my many memories from Happy Days:

[ricks68]

Perhaps you're thinking of this connection and have things a bit "twisted":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistie_Bass

I'm pretty sure I saw him in the stands on more than one occasion watching his daughter play. Sure wish we could return to those days of the women's team. They were excellent and fun to watch---and the coaching was top drawer.

ricks

[FadedTackyShirt]

Probably hadn't been there in 15 years or more but I remember a pretty good tap list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebe...l_(restaurant)

Saw Chuck Berry play there in 1998. The Duck Room (roughly the size of the Hideaway) is a basement within Blueberry Hill.

RIP, Fats, Chuck, and the Hideaway.

[-jk]

Probably hadn't been there in 15 years or more but I remember a pretty good tap list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebe...l_(restaurant)

My father's trip was to a very different Blueberry Hill.

-jk

[rsvman]

Perhaps you're thinking of this connection and have things a bit "twisted":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistie_Bass

Of course. Thanks.

One was fat and the other was chubby; easy to see how these could get confused in my mind.

[OldPhiKap]

(roughly the size of the Hideaway)

And it fit a piano? ;-)