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A NEAR MINT COPY OF THIS RARE 1958 UK LONDON 78 FROM FATS DOMINO 

SICK AND TIRED

b/w  NO NO

Fats was the top-selling male R&B artist of the 50s, during which Chuck Berry placed 16 songs on the us R&B charts and Little Richard placed 18. Fats' total was 46 (27 of which also made the Pop charts. Add to that 6 Pop hits that didn't make the R&B charts! (Even Elvis “only” had 38 tunes on the Pop charts in the 50s.) In a way, Fats was the Nat “King” Cole of 50s R&B; he just sang, without gimmicks, and made it sound easy. There was nothing threatening about his appearance or his music; adults accepted him almost as easily as their kids.

Antoine Domino was born February 28, 1928 in (of course) New Orleans. Fats' early influences were Louis Jordan, Roy Milton, Amos Milburn, Joe Turner, Camille Howard, Count Basie, Little Willie Littlefield, and Charles Brown (not a bad bunch to have influence you). Of course, there were also the boogie-woogie and stride giants: Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Champion Jack Dupree, and Roy “Professor Longhair” Byrd.

However, Fats' career almost ended before it started. Working for pennies was all well and good, but he also had a “real” job, working in a bedspring factory. One day a pile of springs fell on his hands and doctors told him he'd never play the piano again. But Fats fooled them all: within two years he was back playing with a small combo in a local roadhouse called the Hideaway Club. In 1948, he married Rose Mary Hall, his childhood sweetheart

Enter trumpeter Dave Bartholomew, who was the leader of a popular local dance band that had already recorded on the DeLuxe label. One day in 1949, Lew Chudd, owner of Imperial Records came to New Orleans. He'd made a prior appointment to look up Bartholomew and scout out talent for his California-based label. Bartholomew had heard of Fats Domino, and the two of them went to the Hideaway Club to see his act. It only took a few songs for Chudd to decide to sign Fats. Dave was also hired by Chudd, as a New Orleans talent scout.

It was Bartholomew who would do the arrangements for Fats' songs over the years (and author or co-author most of them), and his band was always there to do backup.

SICK AND TIRED

Oh baby, whatcha gonna do
Oh baby, whatcha gonna do
I'm sick and tired of foolin' around with you

Wake up in the mornin' fix you somethin' to eat,
'Fore I go to work I even brush your teeth
Get home in the evenin' and you're still in bed
Got yourself a rag tied 'round you're head.

Oh baby, whatcha gonna do
I'm sick and tired of foolin' around with you

I'm tellin' you baby you'd better change your ways
I'm tellin' you baby I mean what I say
Last time tellin you to stop that jive
Gonna find yourself outside

Oh baby, whatcha gonna do
I'm sick and tired of foolin' around with you

Last time tellin' you baby you'd better change your ways
Last time tellin' you baby I mean what I say
Last time tellin you to stop that jive
Gonna find yourself outside

Oh baby, whatcha gonna do
I'm sick and tired of foolin' around with you

DISC DETAILS:

UK LONDON HLP 8628 10" 78rpm SHELLAC

SIDE 1: - SICK AND TIRED

SIDE 2:-  NO, NO

CONDITION - EX+/M-  NEAR MINT

THIS GREAT 78 JUST CREPT INTO THE UK CHARTS AT #26 FOR JUST 1 WEEK ON 4 JULY 1958

this is a really excellent copy so don't miss it

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