The Fat Man

Album: Fats Domino's Hits (1950)
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  • They call, they call me the fat man
    'Cause I weight two hundred pounds
    All the girls they love me
    'Cause I know my way around

    I was standin', I was standin' on the corner
    Of Rampart and Canal
    I was watchin', watchin'
    Watchin' all these creole gals

    Wah wah wah, wah wah
    Wah wah waah, wah wah wah
    Wah wah waah, wah wah wah
    Wah wah wah

    Wah waah wah
    Wah wah wah, wah wah wah
    Wah wah wah, wah wah wah
    Wah wah wah

    I'm goin', I'm goin' goin' away
    And I'm goin', goin' to stay
    'Cause women and a bad life
    They're carrying this soul away Writer/s: ANTOINE 'FATS' DOMINO, ANTOINE DOMINO, DAVE BARTHOLOMEW
    Publisher: Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NySeventy years ago today on March 18th, 1950, Fats Domino's "The Fat Man" peaked at #2* {for 1 week} on Billboard's 'Most-Played Juke Box Rhythm & Blues Records' chart, for the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Double Crossing Blues" by the Johnny Otis Quintette featuring Little Esther and the Robins...
    Between 1950 and 1964 the New Orleans native had sixty records on the R&B charts, thirty eight made the Top 10 with nine reaching #1...
    Fats Domino, born Antoine Domino Jr., passed away at the age of 89 on October 24th, 2017...
    May he R.I.P.
    * "The Fat Man" was Fats Domino's first of an amazing ten of his records to peak at #2 on the R&B charts...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth'department, the remainder of the Most-Played R&B Juke Box' Top 10 on March 18th, 1950:
    At #3. "Information Blue" by Roy Milton and His Solid Senders
    #4. "I Almost Lost My Mind" by Ivory Joe Hunter
    #5. "Why Do Things Happen To Me?" by Roy Hawkins
    #5. "Rag Mop" by Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
    #7. "Three Times Seven Equals Twenty-One" by Jewel King
    #7. "School Days" by Louis Jordan
    #9. "Little School Girl" by Smokey Hogg
    #9. "I Like My Baby's Pudding" by Wynonie Harris

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