Look at this! I searched for this on YouTube for you...please watch it!
Antoine "Fats" Domino, Jr. died in October of this year. Elvis Presley was a huge fan and I was pleased to see that in the video, Fats Domino remembers him with great warmth and admiration. Admire his skill at the piano along with that incredible voice! (Elvis called him "Mr. Blueberry Hill" and said that Fats was the REAL king of Rock and Roll!)
We have lost so many this year. In Atlanta, one or our favorite news anchors, Amanda Davis, died yesterday. Sadly, she was at the Atlanta airport on the way to her father's funeral and suffered a stroke. She was 62 but looked years younger. You can understand that when someone is on TV for 35 years, a familiar face and voice becomes like a part of your life, as if you know that person. I really liked her. (I loved the work she used to do with "Wednesday's Child", where she would interview a foster child who was searching for a "forever" family.)
Just like Fats Domino...I didn't know him and I never saw him perform. Yet, I was truly saddened to learn of his passing. When you look at this video, you can see and hear his talent but I think you can also sense his great soul and spirit.
"Thank you ever so kindly".
"Thank you ever so kindly".
Hope all of you had a lovely Christmas and looking forward to a happy and peaceful new year. God bless you all!
I love Fats Domino's music, Blueberry Hill and Walking to New Orleans are two favorites. Beautiful nativity scene.
ReplyDeleteThe nativity scene is from the Monastery that is only a few miles from me.
DeleteHappy you like Fats Domino too!
Hi Kay I love all this music too ,it's sad when people go ,but they will live on in our hearts and we will remember when we hear their music or see them on TV.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year my friend 💋
Yes, music lives forever!
DeleteHappy New year to you too! :-)
Yes, it is sad and almost like losing a family member when someone we've "known" for many years dies. But I find it consoling to know that these people have lead good lives, brought joy to many others, and their legacy lives on. Very different from those countless, nameless children who die in the many war zones of our world, or from hunger and disease that could easily be prevented.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Kay, and all the best to you and your loved ones, too!
DeleteIt is hard for me to think of children suffering and dying, as you say, many of them in ways that could be prevented.
DeleteI wish I could save the whole world, all of it. xx
I've loved Fats Domino from when I was just a kid. I also loved Fats Waller. My mother used to play the music from both brilliant talents on our piano. My mother, too, was a brilliant pianist.
ReplyDeleteFats Waller and Tony Jackson...both were mentioned in one of the BEST movies that I just saw recently..."I'LL See You In My Dreams", it was a film from 1951 about Gus Kahn and starred DAnny Thomas and Doris Day. IT WAS WONDERFUL! I loved it so much, if you get the chance, you MUST see it! Oh dear, I will have to do a post about it!!
DeleteNow, how lucky you were to be around a piano all your life, so was I, my sister was WONDERFUL. Me, not so good!
How about you, I bet you play the piano!
I had five years of piano lessons, Kay,and always did well in my exams, but I've not played for years and years. Mum was a natural...she had lessons, of course, but the art of piano playing was second nature to her. She was fantastic. And for a period of time during my childhood, she played in a local dance band.
DeleteI can still hear her play and see her fingers nimbly fly up and down the keys. :)
I'm sure I saw the movie you mentioned when I was young. There weren't very many pictures I missed...and particularly musicals...I loved them. :) I'll have to keep an eye out for it to see if it comes on TV as a re-run on a Saturday or Sunday...as many of the oldies do.
I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas, Kay...and I hope 2018 treats you all with kindness and happiness. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd the same is wished for you!
DeleteIt's true that stars like Fats Domino and your Amanda Davis do become a part of our lives. Seeing so much of them over the years makes us take for granted they will always be there. It's a big loss when they are gone. A part of lives that will never be the same again.
ReplyDeleteAnd part of losing the TV anchor, is that it was so sudden. And she was a part of our morning, we always watched that particular station and have seen her for years on our TV.
DeleteFats Domino was one of those performers who looked at his audience as if he was including them into his performance. He was one of the original rock and roll people.
ReplyDeleteLike Elvis, very talented but also a great entertainer, besides obviously being a great guy!
DeleteMr. Domino was an amazing man and great performer. After Hurricane Katrina, everyone was worried about him as no one heard news of him. He heard about the ruckus and the search and piped up, he was staying at his niece's boyfriend's apartment. The boyfriend was the quarterback for the local college football team, and he had opened his small apartment to her whole family. Mr. Domino himself was given the best couch in the place, and was very grateful!
ReplyDeleteOne man who helped set up stage equipment at a local venue talks about how all othe other performers would be very picky about how everything would be set up, and Mr. Domino would say, "Just roll my piano out there anywhere, and I'll play it!" No pickiness at all.
He is remembered here as a gentleman and a class act, and much missed.
"Just roll my piano out there anywhere and I'll play it".
DeleteThank you so much for telling me this, I love it!! I am not surprised at all, a gentleman and a class act, that completely sounds like him.
I do remember the story of him sleeping on that couch and for how grateful he was for it. Warms my heart to think of this. x
I like that nativity scene. No frills just simple and better for it. Got an easy listening compilation CD I've had for years perfect for long drives in the car and he has three songs on it. Hope you had a nice Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it beautiful? Notice there are no Wise Men yet, the monks will add them later, so as to go along with the correct timing of it all.
DeletePeaceful, Easy Feeling...you know that song came to my mind when I read your comment! Happy Year to you also!
Fats was good!
ReplyDeleteAnd his music will always be with us.
DeleteHave a great new year!
ReplyDeleteAnd the same is wished for you!
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