Complete Hits, 1950-62 by Fats Domino (CD, 2015)

Fats Domino was one of the most important figures in the development and popularisation of rock n roll, representing as he did the bridging of the previously yawning gap between the black R&B market and the white mainstream commercial pop scene during the middle years of the 1950s. His career began long before the well-documented rock n roll explosion of those years, but he maintained an extraordinary longevity in the charts, to the extent that this 3-CD collection, comprising 85 tracks, consists entirely of his chart entries in the US pop and R&B charts, many of which also made the UK charts, with nine R&B No. 1s among them.\n\nHis trademark New Orleans R&B style found a distinctive niche in rock n roll, with landmark hits like Aint That A Shame, Blueberry Hill, Blue Monday, Im Walkin and Walkin To New Orleans, and he became a hugely influential and widely respected figure. This anthology is close to being a definitive run-down of his hit-making career, and certainlyo