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It is said that the Bear Family box set "Out of New Orleans" (BCD 15541) contains the complete Imperial recordings - is this true?

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No! SOME of the missing ones are:


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There are some ABC-Paramount recordings which were released on a single, but I can't find them on LP:  For you / Goodnight Sweetheart / If you don't know what Love is / Lazy Lady / Let me call you Sweetheart / Packin' up / Sally was a good old Girl / Something you got Baby / Who cares.

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In addition to the three original albums "Here comes Fats Domino" (ABC 455 / ABCS 455), "Fats on Fire" (ABC 479 / ABCS 479) and "Getaway with Fats Domino" (ABC 510 / ABCS 510), a fourth LP was issued, but only in Holland in 1966 as "The Best!" (Artone, PAP 241) and reissued in 1979 with the same cover (MCA, 5C 050-63041). It has all the above mentioned tracks plus That certain Someone / Nobody needs you like me / A whole Lot of Trouble.

 


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Do you have any information about the mysterious album titled "Southland U.S.A." from Mercury?

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Sure.

The catalog number is MG 21065 (Mono), and it was advertised in January 1966 in the Billboard magazine. Covers were made and sent to record stores to promote the album. Sources say that it was never finished by Domino, because he left Mercury during the recording sessions for the LP in October/November 1965. One single, released in 1965, was taken from this album - What's that you got? / It's never too late (72485).
The tracks of the LP were listed as follows: Mardi Gras in New Orleans / Alabamy Sound / Deep in the Heart of Texas / Walking to New Orleans (the Billboard ad lists "Memphis, Tennessee") / Way down yonder in New Orleans / Basin Street Blues / St. Louis Blues / Cotton Fields / What's that you got / It's never too late / Don't play with my Heart / I had the Blues for New Orleans
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he last-mentioned four songs were released on the 2006 CD "Fats Domino '65 - What's that you got?".
(Thanks to Paul MacPhail!)

 


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I've never seen a copy of the second Reprise LP "Fats". Does it really exist?

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Of course.

For the US release, only test pressings with the orange label are known to exist. They came in a white cardboard cover and a "Contains RS 6439 - Fats - Fats Domino Special International Release" sticker. It was officially released with the original cover artwork in January 1970 in Holland (Reprise, RS 6439), in South Africa (RRC 6439), in 1972 in Germany (Reprise/Kinney, 44 113), with a different cover in Japan (Reprise, P-8046R), and again with a different cover in 1974 in Germany as "Star-Collection, Vol. 2" (Midi/WEA, MID 24019 F). The tracks are: I'm going to cross that river / Big Mouth / It's a Sin to tell a Lie / Wait till it happens to You / I'm going to help a Friend / The Lady in Black / Another Mule / When You're smiling (the whole World smiles with You) / These old Shoes / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Work my Way up steady
Originally, all the tracks of this album were recorded 1967 in New Orleans for Dave Bartholomew's own Broadmoor label. Only two singles were put out - Work my Way up Steady / The Lady in black (Broadmoor, 104) and Big Mouth / Wait 'til it happens to you (Broadmoor, 105).
Before releasing the accompanying LP, Fats signed with Reprise, taking the Broadmoor stuff with him. In 1968, Richard Perry produced a new album in Los Angeles, "Fats is back" (Reprise, RS 6304). The old "Fats" LP remained unissued, because Domino left Reprise in 1970.
For all of these tracks plus a new version of HELP ME see
the 2005 Rhino CD "Sweet Patootie: The Complete Reprise Recordings".

 


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Q:

Are there any other studio albums, which were never finished?

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Yes, it is said that there are at least two:


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I own some songs on an old and worn record, but I can't find them on CD. Which are the tracks not issued on CD? 

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Here they are:


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