Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choral Society with G. Wallace Woodworth conducting, opened with the full chorus singing Hassler's Cantate Domino from Sacri Concentus. For such a large group, the girls appeared excellently drilled. The Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles...
...bald-headed man in the front row arose and came down the aisle. He paused, and bit his fingernail. "Can you imagine?" he said. "I mean, can you imagine? My own children." He loosened his tie. "Stardust and White Christmas and Deep Purple--as played by Fats Domino and Billy Ward. I mean, what will my children think? My God, what will my children think...
...Fats Domino, a chubby torpedo with the hands of a rake and the voice of a raspy chain saw, deposited his 300-pound frame at the piano and began to play. They turned on the house-lights. Fats, in a red silk toga, had been known to inspire hysteria...
Four songs later Antoine ("Fats") Domino Jr. had shown for the 97th time, in a grueling succession of one-night stands, why his reputation rivals that of Elvis Presley with rock 'n' roll fans. Leaving his audience in a happy lather, rock-solid Fats (215 lbs., 5 ft. 7 in.) trucked offstage to his dressing room...
Tunes of this type predominate in the top ten, including Fats Domino's "Blue Monday", Ivory Joe Hunter's "Since I Met You", and Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues". There are, though, some nice ballads moving up: Pat Boone's "Don't Forbid Me", Johnny Mathis's "Wonderful, Wonderful" and George Hamilton IV's "Only One Love." Hamilton, who next to Elvis is the most interesting young singer around, is sure to have a hit as big as his first "A Rose and a Baby Ruth...