Episode 349: Spotlight Show on Fats Domino February 25, 2025 - part 1 of 2

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1. Van Morrison / Domino
2. Fats Domino / Lady Madonna
3. Louis Jordan / Saturday Night Fish Fry
4. Hank Ballard & the Midnighters / Let's Go, Let's Go (Thrill Upon the Hill)
5. Louis Armstrong / Blueberry Hill
6. Louis Prima & Phil Harris / I Wanna Be Like You (OST The Jungle Book)
7. Jelly Roll Morton / New Orleans Blues (the Spanish tinge)
8. Fats Domino / Blue Monday

Early Influences on Fats Domino
9. Amos Milburn / Chicken Shack Boogie (Christine Perfect nee' McVie w/
10. Charles Brown / Trouble Blues
11. Ella Fitzgerald / A Tisket, A Tasket
12. Meade Lux Lewis / Doll House Boogie
13. Lloyd Price / Lawdy Miss Clawdy

Hit Parade - 1949
14. Wynonie Harris / Good Rockin' Tonight (1948)
15. Babe Ruth retires from baseball (1947)
16. Count Basie / Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball (Buddy Johnson Orchestra, 1949)
17. Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Up Above My Head (1949)
16. Fats Domina / The Fat Man
17. John Lee Hooker / Boogie Chillen

New Orleans and The Big Beat (Earl Palmer & Dave Bartholomew)
18. Archibald / Stack-a-Lee (Stagger Lee)
19. Little Richard / Long Tall Sally 
20. Smiley Lewis / I Hear You Knocking
21. Roy Brown / Let the Four Winds Blow
22. Earl King /Trick Bag