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[[caption-width-right:300:The ''real'' King of Rock & Roll, according to Music/ElvisPresley.]]

->''"I'm walkin', yes indeed, and I'm talkin'\\
About you and me, I'm hopin'\\
That you'll come back to me, yeah-yeah..."''

Antoine "Fats" Domino (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an African-American RockAndRoll[=/=]RAndB singer, songwriter, and pianist from UsefulNotes/NewOrleans who was one of the stars of the first wave of rock and roll in the 1950s. Among his best-known hits are "Blueberry Hill", "I'm Walkin'", "Ain't That a Shame", and "Blue Monday". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 as part of the inaugural class.

Not to be confused with Music/FatsWaller.
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!! "I found my trope/On Blueberry Hill":
* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: His children are Antoine III, Anatole, Andre, Antonio, Antoinette, Andrea, Anola and Adonica. [[MassivelyNumberedSiblings Oh, and there are eight of them]].
* AsHimself: On Season 3 of ''Series/{{Treme}}'', and in his younger days in ''Film/TheGirlCantHelpIt'' where he played "Blue Monday".
* BigFun: It's where he got his name. His first hit was called "The Fat Man."
* {{Bowdlerization}}: "The Fat Man" was originally a Champion Jack Dupree song called "Junker's Blues" about a heroin junkie and filled with drug references. Fats performed it live regularly before he had a record deal and the crowds loved it. When he got the chance to cut a record, everyone involved knew the song wouldn't sell well with the original lyrics, so they wrote a whole new set. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price (with Fats on the piano) was a further rewrite of the rewrite.
* CelebritySurvivor: A RealLife example. The Coast Guard rescued him from Hurricane Katrina.
* CoverVersion: Several. "Blueberry Hill" was originally by Music/GlennMiller. He later recorded, among others, Music/HankWilliams' "Your Cheatin' Heart," Music/TheBeatles' [[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand "Lovely Rita"]], "Lady Madonna" (the original had already been done InTheStyleOf Domino) and [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey."]]
* CreatorProvincialism: By the 1980s, he decided that he would not leave New Orleans under any circumstances. Even having his piano ruined by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 didn't drive him away.
* {{Crossover}}: A few times. Not just from R&B to mainstream pop. He had a [[TheCameo Cameo]] in ''[[Film/EveryWhichWayButLoose Any Which Way You Can]]'', which led to him scoring a hit on the CountryMusic charts titled "Whiskey Heaven."
* DanceSensation[=/=]SingerNamedrop: "Dance with Mr. Domino," which is about the "Domino Twist."
* DaysOfTheWeekSong: "Blue Monday"
* IAmSong: "The Fat Man" "I'm in the Mood for Love", "I'm Walkin'", "I'm Ready", "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday," "I'm in Love Again"
* IntercourseWithYou: Fats had one of the earliest proto-Rock'n'roll hits with "The Fat Man", a boasting song about his sex appeal.
-->"They call, they call me the fat man\\
'Cause I weigh two hundred pounds\\
All the girls they love me\\
'Cause [[DoubleEntendre I know my way around]]"
* IWantSong: "I Want to Walk You Home"
* OdeToIntoxication: "Blue Monday":
-->"Sunday morning my head is bad\\
But it's WorthIt, all the times that I've had"
* OneWomanSong: "Hello Josephine", "Ida Jane"
* QuestioningTitle: "Ain't That a Shame"
* RecordProducer: Dave Bartholomew, himself a formidable singer-songwriter, produced all of Fats' big hits, and helped write most of them as well.
* RespectedByTheRespected: Elvis Presley may be forever revered as the King of Rock 'n' Roll, but he considered Fats Domino to be more worthy of the title.
* SillyLoveSongs: Many of his songs fall somewhere in this category. Goes with the times.
* SomethingBlues: "Korea Blues", "Detroit City Blues," "Trouble Blues"
* TheSomethingSong: "Rooster Song," "The Prisoner's Song"
* UnbuiltTrope: His 1959 hit "Be My Guest" sounds for all the world like a {{Ska}} song, especially with the choppy rhythm guitar and the horns, except for the fact that Ska hadn't been invented yet. Indeed, Domino played a notable role in the history of Ska. He was a [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff big star in Jamaica]] at the time, since New Orleans radio stations playing R&B could easily be heard there at night. He was rapturously received during a 1961 Jamaican concert tour. No less than Music/BobMarley himself cited Domino as one of his early music heroes. While Domino and lots of other New Orleans artists played around with rhythms and had songs which emphasized the off-beat, the way he did it on "Be My Guest", with the guitar being the dominant rhythm instrument, was hugely influential on the island's music scene.

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