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Antoine Fats Domino: Fats Is Back (Reprise RS 6304)

Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 24 January 1969

ROCK ENTHUSIASTS sometimes like to quibble over just which rock and roll song started the whole thing: in the liner notes for this album producer Richard Perry makes a good case for Fats Domino's 'Ain't That A Shame' which appeared back in the middle '50s.

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