Fats Domino

Bobkat Music Trust is the official holder of rights (of record) to "Fats Domino and Friends" (most watched special in Cinemax history, winner of ACE Award for "Cinemax Sessions"), not to mention the award-winning Fats Domino TV commercial for Popeye's Chicken, and is headquartered in the San Francisco East Bay Delta area of California. Recording sessions for Fagen's third solo album began in August, 2004. Since 1995, Vernon and Domino have been partners (with many other companies, such as Dick Clark Productions) in the Bobkat Music Trust, an entertainment group that manages the careers (some posthumous) of Domino, Elvis Presley, Paul Shaffer (keyboardist and occasional guest host on the David Letterman Show), Jerry Lee Lewis, writer Randy Pringle, and many others. The duo have kept Steely Dan going strong in its new formation and have since delighted their legion of fans with two more Steely Dan albums, the Grammy Award winning Two Against Nature (2000) and Everything Must Go (2003), as well as the live CD Alive In America and a live concert DVD. During Vernon's tenure, Domino's earnings have increased 500%. The following year Fagen co-produced Becker's solo debut, 11 Tracks of Whack. His career has been produced and managed since the 1980s by multimedia entertainment purveyor and music producer Robert G. Vernon. This led to their reunion as a writing team and the creation of a new touring version of Steely Dan.

He makes yearly appearances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and a few other local events, where he demonstrates that his musicianship and showmanship are undiminished. His second solo album, the underated Kamakiriad (1993) was produced by Walter Becker. He lives in a mansion in the mostly working-class 9th Ward neighborhood, where he is a familiar sight in his bright pink Cadillac. During the eighties, Fagen composed music for films and various other artists and toured with the New York Rock & Soul Revue. In the 1980s Domino decided he would no longer leave New Orleans, as he had a comfortable income from royalties, disliked touring, and claimed he couldn't get any food he liked anywhere but his home town. His induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and an invitation to perform at the White House failed to get Domino to make any exception to this policy. He wrote briefly for Premiere magazine, including witty pieces on Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone. Though he remained active for decades, he only had one more Top 40 hit, a cover of the Beatles song "Lady Madonna", originally written by Lennon/McCartney to emulate Fats's style. After the group's 1981 breakup, Fagen released his solo debut album, The Nightfly (1982), which has been favorably compared to his Steely Dan work.

After he moved to ABC-Paramount in 1963, the bottom fell out of Fats' recording career although he continued as a popular live act. After releasing their third LP in 1974 the other members gradually left the band and it evolved into a studio project headed by Becker and Fagen, who from that point on recorded their albums with the cream of America's jazz and rock session musicians. They scored their biggest success in 1977 with the platinum-selling album Aja. Fats released an unprecedented series of 35 Top 40 singles, including "Whole Lotta Loving", "Blue Monday", and a funky version of the old ballad "Blueberry Hill". They comprised the core of the band and co-wrote all the group's music; on tour and record, Becker played bass and Fagen played keyboards, as well as performing almost all of the lead vocals on their recordings. Fats finally crossed into the pop mainstream with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955) which hit the Top Ten, though Pat Boone characteristically hit #1 with a cover of the song. He and Walter Becker founded the group in 1971. Fats then released a series of hit songs with producer and co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonist Alvin "Red" Tyler and drummer Earl Palmer. Donald Fagen (born January 10, 1948 in Passaic, New Jersey) is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as one half of the jazz rock duo Steely Dan.

The record, a reworking of "Junker's Blues" by Champion Jack Dupree, was a massive hit, selling over a million copies and peaking at #2 on the Billboard R&B Charts. His career began with "The Fat Man" (1949, Imperial Records), one of the first rock and roll records, featuring a rolling piano and Fats doing wah-wah vocalizing. His congenial personality and rich accent have added to his appeal. Domino is also a fine pianist with an individualistic bluesy style showing stride and boogie-woogie influences.

He was the best-selling African-American singer of the 1950s and early 1960s. Fats Domino, born Antoine Dominique (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a classic R&B singer.