Bebel Gilberto Review / Fats Domino Preview (Album 25)

(Bebel preview here) What an interesting album. It was more jazz-samba then I was expecting, but it was still good. It sounds like the kind of music that you would hear in a movie during a rainy love-making scene. In Mexico, obviously. She has a very pretty calm voice, and it goes very well with the slight drums and guitar and such. I like it, but its something that I would only listen to while I was trying to nap or seduce someone... I think that it may be early in a scene in the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith (musically similar to this, but not the same: Mr. & Mrs. Smith Mondo Bongo Dance ).

Favorite Songs:
     Samba Da Bancao
     So Nice (Summer Samba)
     Close Your Eyes

Album: This Is Fats

Artist: Fats Domino

Release Year: 1956

"While selling some 65 millino records in the decade [50s], Domino was arguably the man most responsible for bridging the gam between R&B and rock, although Little Richard might despute that claim. What is beyond debate is the influence of the singer's 1950s work, which has run and spread through popular music and influenced everyone from Pat Boone to The Beatles. This Is Fats, the singer's third full-length album on Impereal, was released at the height of Domino's career and remains the most powerful portrait of his artistry thanks to such boogie-woogie beasts as "Blue Monday" and "Honey Chile" and such mournful masterpieces as "So Long" and "Poor Poor Me." - Jim Harrington

01 - Blueberry Hill

02 - Honey Chile

03 - What's The Reason (I'm Not Pleasing You)

04 - Blue Monday

05 - So Long

06 - La-La

07 - Troubles Of My Own

08 - You Done Me Wrong

09 - Reelin' And Rockin'

10 - The Fat Man's Hop

11 - Poor, Poor Me

12 - Trust In Me

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: Fats Domino

I couldn't find him on Spotify, but I found this instead: Playlist

Looking at some more 50s grove. I'm excited to hear Fats. He is a name that I have always heard but never listened too.

~mfm