THE BIG BEAT: The Story Of Fats Domino & His Band will tell the story of the early years (1949-62) of the Fats Domino / Dave
Bartholomew collaboration and its roots in the culture and music of New
Orleans....On the day in 1948 the unlikely paths of Antoine "Fats"
Domino and Dave Bartholomew collided at a small Lower Ninth Ward New
Orleans night club neither men would have suspected that their
collaboration would result in one of the longest ( 65 years and
running) and most successful in American Music history. A
collaboration that, by 1962, would sell over 60
million records. Continued here.
