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adkindo
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 Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:00 am Post subject: Blueberry Hill.....RIP Fats Domino |
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| Quote: | Fats Domino, the piano-playing prodigy whose lightning-fast fingers crafted a rollicking sound blending rock with rhythm-and-blues, has died, the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office in Louisiana said Wednesday.
He was 89. |
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Aeneas Hunter
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| I had no idea he was still alive. RIP |
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ChefLinda
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I had no idea he was still alive. RIP |
Me too. RIP. |
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numero-ocho
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| ChefLinda wrote: | | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I had no idea he was still alive. RIP |
Me too. RIP. |
Same here. I think there was another rock legend from the 50s who passed away earlier this year and we talked about which ones were still alive. I recall Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis' name but I don't recall Fats Domino.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| ChefLinda wrote: | | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I had no idea he was still alive. RIP |
Me too. RIP. |
Add me to the list. Danced a lot of Be Bop to Fats music.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| numero-ocho wrote: | | ChefLinda wrote: | | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I had no idea he was still alive. RIP |
Me too. RIP. |
Same here. I think there was another rock legend from the 50s who passed away earlier this year and we talked about which ones were still alive. I recall Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis' name but I don't recall Fats Domino. |
Chuck Berry was the other who died this year. Iirc, a few people had the same reaction. Chuck Berry was still aLIVE?! That was the chain smoke and heavy drink era. Kudos to any musician from that era who made it all the way to the 2010s. A lot of transpo deaths, too. Ritchie Valens didn't make it past age 17.
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| ChefLinda wrote: | | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I had no idea he was still alive. RIP |
Me too. RIP. |
My wife and both said that to each other this morning. Sadly, it will soon be true for all of the legends of the birth of American music.
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