Fats Domino Discography 1 [BEST]

Fats Domino Discography 1 [BEST]

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The King Of Rock N Roll, Fats Domino, is at his artistic peak in this 4CD box. The 1949-1957 period produced Domino classics such as \"The Fat Man\", \"Ain't It A Shame\", \"Goin' Home\", \"I'm In Love Again\", \"Blueberry Hill\" and \"Blue Monday\". They are all here plus many other goodies. For full discography and listings, see www.proper-records.co.uk

This started as a series of 2-CD sets that repeats much of the material from earlier R&B sets, suchas Rhythm and Blues and Solid Gold Soul. After four volumes of regular-priced double-CD sets in the R604- series, the series switched to single-disc, 20 song, retail offerings in the M187-series. When the retail versions of the series came out, the pitch to dealers was that over a half-million sets hadbeen sold through TV advertising and infomercials. We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publications is an informationweb page. We are not a catalog, nor can we provide the records listed below. We have no associationwith Time-Life or Warner Bros. Records. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in thisdiscography (all of which are out of print), we suggest you see our Frequently Asked Questions page and follow theinstructions found there. This story and discography are copyright 2004, 2008 by Mike Callahan.

The Imperial Label was started by Lew Chudd in 1946 in Los Angeles, California. Originally, the labelconcentrated on local Mexican groups and ethnic folk artists and the series of 10-inch LPs reflect this. In August, 1947, Lew Chudd started a popular record series consisting of rhythm and blues recordings. Two years later, he began tapping into the rhythm and blues artists in New Orleans, which had beenlargely ignored by the major record companies. His most significant discovery was Fats Domino, a 22year old piano player who sang with a Creole accent. In 1949 he recorded a song called \"The Fat Man\"which became an R&B hit in early 1950. Fats Domino was the most important artist on Imperial and had a impressive string of hits from 1950 until1963, when he left the label in favor of ABC-Paramount. The early Fats Domino records sold in the\"Race Record\" market, but with \"Ain't It a Shame\" in 1955, he crossed over into the mainstream popularmusic market, adding to his stature as one of the \"founding fathers\" of rock and roll. In addition to Fats, Chudd recorded T-Bone Walker, Smiley Lewis, Lil' Son Jackson and the Spiders. Onmost of the recordings made in New Orleans, the Dave Bartholomew band was used as accompaniment. Bartholomew served as the Artists & Repertoire (A&R) man for Chudd, and was the arranger for many ofthe sessions. Bartholomew's band was popular in the clubs of New Orleans at the time, and in addition tohaving two albums under his own name on the label, he recorded the original version of \"My Ding-A-Ling\"as a single in 1952 (Chuck Berry took essentially the same song to #1 twenty years later). In 1957, the young Ricky Nelson, son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson of the popular TV show TheAdventures of Ozzie and Harriet, recorded three songs for the Verve label, essentially on a lark. Hiscover version of Fats Domino's \"I'm Walkin'\" was featured on the Nelsons' TV show and sold like hotcakes. Incredibly, Verve did not have Ricky Nelson under contract, and Lew Chudd quickly signed himto Imperial. Nelson became a \"Teenage Idol\" and a very consistent hit-maker for the label. Rick Nelson'ssinging is sometimes disparaged, but he did have a real feel and respect for rockabilly, and producedsome fine examples of that genre. Many of the best songs Nelson recorded were written by Johnny andDorsey Burnette. The Ricky Nelson album LP-9061, Ricky Sings Again, is a particularly goodexample of this. Nelson left the label in 1963 for Decca.In 1958, Imperial was one of the first labels to issue stereo albums. They used a disctinctive black stereolabel for these issues intil 1964, when the label was sold. One of the decisions made in 1958, when thestereo albums were first issued, was to give them an entirely different numbering system not related totheir mono counterparts, one of the only labels to take such a bewildering course. After a few years ofconfusion, Imperial changed the stereo numbering system (LP-12000 series) to echo the correspondinglast three digits in the LP-9000 mono numbering system. We have provided a mono-stereo recordnumber crosswalk as an aid to getting through this mess.In 1961, Lew Chudd bought the Aladdin Records catalog and reissued many of the Aladdin masters onImperial (See Aladdin/Score Discography). The Imperial releases of Aladdin material have an \"A\"following the album number. In 1963, Chudd purchased the Minit Label of New Orleans from JoeBanashak. Imperial was the distributor of Minit from 1961, and with the acquisition of Minit, Imperialobtained the contracts of Irma Thomas and Ernie K-Doe. The discographies of Joe Banashak's Minitand Instant labels are included elsewhere under the Discography Main Page.In 1964, Chudd sold Imperial to Liberty Records, and the label underwent an almost overnightmetamorphosis. Gone were the label's former stars like Fats Domino and Rick Nelson, who had signedwith other labels. The new owners also put somewhat of a damper on the label's artists who weren'tselling much, and concentrated on getting a completely new stable of hip, teen-oriented talent. Theybrought Irma Thomas' incredible voice over from the Minit label. They signed several British Invasiongroups, such as the Hollies, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, and the Swinging Blue Jeans. In addition,new American stars-in-the-making such as Cher, Jackie DeShannon, and Johnny Rivers were signed.They tapped into the Los Angeles \"Go-Go\" scene with \"live\" albums that added excitement to the label. Atleast at the beginning, the \"live\" Johnny Rivers albums (as well as the \"live\" Sandy Nelson album) featured studio recordings with label employees overdubbed as the live audience, but they were excitingnonetheless. The mid-1960s period, from 1964 to about 1968, was the most successful for Imperial onthe record charts.In 1968, Transamerica Corporation, who owned United Artists, bought the Liberty/Imperial Labels andmerged them with UA. Having had the mid-1960s talent more-or-less run it's course, the new companyneeded to recharge the label with the kind of aggressive talent search that was done in 1964. Unfortunately, the artists signed after 1967 were comparatively weak chart performers (with a fewexceptions like the Classics IV, who were signed before 1968), and the label languished. In 1970, UAtransferred most of the Imperial artists to Liberty for future releases, and by 1971 Imperial had essentiallyceased to exist as a distinct new-product label. UA did, however, maintain the back-catalog of Imperialalbums for many years afterwards, and they did reissue some Imperial and Aladdin material under theUnited Artists banner. Today, the UA, Imperial, Minit, Liberty, Aladdin and Score masters are all ownedby the huge EMI-Capitol Music empire, which purchased United Artists from TransAmerica in the 1980s.Although rhythm and blues was the mainstay of the pre-1964 Imperial label, Lew Chudd's label alsorecorded jazz, with top artists like Sonny Criss and Warner Marsh, and country music (Slim Whitmanbeing his most successful artist). Chudd's label had a broad scope and included recordings of movie soundtracks, big band music, folk artists, gospel, and march music. The Liberty-owned Imperial label, onthe other hand, was much less eclectic, and much more top-40 oriented. As is many times the case, thesale of a successful label, as Imperial/Liberty was sold in 1968, leads to the decline of the label's success,and eventually, it's demise. This certainly was the case with Imperial.Lew Chudd, the founder of Imperial Records, died on June 15, 1998, just shy of his 87th birthday.The sources for this discography were Schwann Catalogs from 1953 to 1970, Phonolog Reports from1963, UA catalogs from 1973, and of course the records themselves. Michael Ruppli's ImperialDiscography was the source of the titles of unissued records. The date of Lew Chudd's death wasreported to us by his son, Reeve.We would appreciate any additions or corrections to this discography. Just send them to us via e-mail. Both Sides Now Publicationsis an information web page, and we have no association with Imperial Records. Imperial Records iscurrently owned by EMI-Capitol Music. Should you be interested in acquiring albums listed in thisdiscography (which are all out of print), we suggest you see our \"Frequently Asked Questions\" page and follow theinstructions found there. 1e1e36bf2d