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'Fats' Putin over the top of 'Blueberry Hill' (with piano solo)

  

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Via:  the-irascible-harry-krishner  •  12 years ago  •  2 comments

'Fats' Putin over the top of 'Blueberry Hill' (with piano solo)

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Krishna
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link   seeder  Krishna    12 years ago

I googled it and to my surprise found out that this tune went back quite a ways before Fats Domino:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Blueberry Hill" is a popular song published in 1940 best remembered for its 1950s rock n' roll version by Fats Domino. The music was written by Vincent Rose, the lyrics by Al Lewis. It was recorded six times in 1940. Victor Records released the recording by the Sammy Kaye Orchestra with vocals by Tommy Ryan on May 31, 1940 (catalog #26643, with the flip side "Maybe"; matrix #51050[1]). Gene Krupa's version was issued on the Okeh label (#5672) on June 3. Other 1940 recordings were by: Glenn Miller on Bluebird (10768), Kay Kyser, Russ Morgan, Gene Autry (also in the 1941 film The Singing Hill[1]), Connee Boswell, and Jimmy Dorsey.[2] The largest 1940 hit was Glenn Miller.

Louis Armstrong's 1949 recording charted in the Billboard Top 40. It was an international hit in 1956 for Fats Domino, and has become a rock and roll standard. It reached number two, for three weeks on the Billboard Top 40 charts, becoming his biggest pop hit, and spent eight non-consecutive weeks at number one on the R&B Best Sellers chart.[2] The version by Fats Domino was also ranked #82 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[3] The song was Domino's greatest hit and remains the song most associated with him. ( Cont'd )

 
 
 
Krishna
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link   seeder  Krishna    12 years ago

"Russia's Got Talent!" :-)

 
 

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