Cat. No. VV 1183: FATS DOMINO ~ WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS. IMPERIAL LP-9227.

USED VINYL RECORD. PART OF A COLLECTION NOW UP FOR SALE.

FATS DOMINO (ANTOINE CALISTE DOMINO) WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ROCK'N'ROLL AND IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT IN HIS CAREER HE HAS SOLD OVER 110 MILLION RECORDS. SIGNED TO THE IMPERIAL LABEL IN 1949, HIS FIRST RECORD, "THE FAT MAN", HAS BEEN CITED BY SOME HISTORIANS AS BEING THE FIRST ROCK AND ROLL SINGLE AND THE FIRST TO SELL A MIILION COPIES. 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 EACH, BEING CERTIFIED GOLD. FOUR OF FAT'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". FATS WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 1986 AS PART OF ITS FIRST GROUP OF INDUCTEES. FATS DIED ON OCTOBER 24, 2017 AT HIS HOME IN HARVEY, LOUISIANA, AT THE AGE OF 89 FROM NATURAL CAUSES.

THIS ALBUM IS A 1983 FRENCH REISSUE BY PATHE MARCONI / EMI OF THE ORIGINAL 1958 AMERICAN PRESSING CONTAINING SOME OF FAT'S LESSER KNOWN TRACKS. THE SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH BARELY A SIGN OF WEAR AND TEAR. THE YELLOWING VISIBLE IN THE IMAGE IS CAUSED BY THE SCANNER AND IS NOT IN EVIDENCE ON THE ACTUAL SLEEVE. THE RECORD IS GRADED AS NEAR MINT.

TRACK LISTING: Side 1 - How Can I Be Happy / One Of These Days / So Glad / Oh Wee / Sailor Boy / Lazy Woman.

Side 2 - Walking To New Orleans / My Love For Her / What's Wrong / Little Mama / I Guess I'll Be On My Way / Goin' Back Home. 

12" VINYL RECORD