{"id":2698,"date":"2017-10-25T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2017-10-25T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T23:40:58","slug":"fats-dominos-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/fats-dominos-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Fats Domino&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fats-Domino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2695 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fats-Domino-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fats-Domino-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fats-Domino-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fats-Domino-250x250.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Fats-Domino-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Fats Domino, died at the age of 89 (February 26, 1928 to October 24, 2017). He was the voice and piano behind hits like \u201cBlueberry Hill\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t That a Shame,\u201d. A contemporary of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, Domino was among the first acts inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was reportedly only second to Presley in record sales thanks to a titanic string of 11 top 10 hits between 1955 and 1960, which also included \u201cI\u2019m Walkin,\u2019\u201d \u201cBlue Monday\u201d and \u201cWalking to New Orleans,\u201d. He will be missed by the music world.<\/p>\n<p>Ain&#8217;t it a Shame<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2698-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/04-Aint-It-A-Shame-Fats-Domino-2_33_52.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/04-Aint-It-A-Shame-Fats-Domino-2_33_52.mp3\">http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/04-Aint-It-A-Shame-Fats-Domino-2_33_52.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Walking to New Orleans<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2698-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/18-Walking-To-New-Orleans-Fats-Domino-2_00_73.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/18-Walking-To-New-Orleans-Fats-Domino-2_00_73.mp3\">http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/18-Walking-To-New-Orleans-Fats-Domino-2_00_73.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fats Domino, died at the age of 89 (February 26, 1928 to October 24, 2017). He was the voice and piano behind hits like \u201cBlueberry Hill\u201d and \u201cAin\u2019t That a Shame,\u201d. A contemporary of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, Domino was among the first acts inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newletters","comments-open"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46vzC-Hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}