Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, and A. Doe not yet accounted for in New Orleans area

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Alex Chilton is likely okay

He's maybe ok.

Hurricane Katrina Relief for Musicians

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 12:46 am Post subject: PLEASE HELP EDDIE BO TODAY!

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Hello,
I spoke with Eddie Bo today by phone....you know, he is not the kind of person to ASK for help, so I am asking FOR HIM.
I have set up an organization called NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS RELIEF EFFORT. I will post more info on that later.
If you make donations to Red Cross or United Way etc., none of that money will get DIRECTLY to the New Orleans musicians that are in dire need. Please stay tuned for more info on N.O.M.R.E.
Eddie says he has nothing, and that he does not know what he is going to do. I told him that I would try to hook him up with some help, and he said that that " gave him hope." He needs money for food, clothes and essentials. He lost his home and restaurant and has nothing. He still managed to make me smile even in the midst of this tragedy....he has an amazing spirit! PLEASE help him with any donations...every little bit will help. He needs help NOW!
KAREN HAMILTON
c/o EDDIE BOCAGE
320 West Plaquemine St.
Church Point, La. 10525
THANK YOU!

CindyChen
NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS RELIEF EFFORT
1314 Las Olas Blvd. #1074
Fort Lauderdale, FL. 33301

er, well, extenuating circumstances... ;-)

Is this really the only Fats Domino thread on ILM? A shame if true.

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/08/archivist_joe_lauro_plans_new.html

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1241805955/the-big-beat-the-story-of-fats-domino-and-his-band

Fats Domino movie doc to premier in New Orleans October 23

The early years (1949-62) of the Fats Domino / Dave Bartholomew collaboration and its roots in the culture and music of New Orleans

....On the day in 1948 the unlikely paths of Antoine "Fats" Domino and Dave Bartholomew collided at a small Lower Ninth Ward New Orleans night club neither men would have suspected that their collaboration would result in one of the longest ( 65 years and running) and most successful in American Music history. A collaboration that, by 1962, would sell over 60 million records.

THE BIG BEAT: THE STORY OF FATS DOMINO AND HIS BAND is also the story of how Fats and Dave's music BECAME Rock N' Roll and how it effectively broke down the color barriers that paved the way for racial integration through music. We will use recent interviews with Dave, Fats and with surviving band members and rare previously unseen full length vintage performances of the Fats Domino Band ( with Dave Bartholomew on Trumpet) performing their early hits to illustrate the story of these two men and the other musicians who made their band among the greatest in Rock N' roll history...

Several years ago, while doing preliminary research for a possible Fats Domino documentary, I discovered in ( of all places!) the French National Archive, a 45 minute live concert film , shot in 1962, of the original Fats Domino band...the same band that recorded with Fats from 1949 to 1962 as well as appearing , with Dave Bartholomew as band leader and director, on over 200 nationally charted singles and 21 gold records - all of which recorded in Cosimo Matasa’s tiny J&M studio on Rampart Street in the city of New Orleans

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/herb-hardesty-best-known-as-fats-dominos-saxophonist-dies-at-91/362631252

If listeners didn’t know Hardesty’s name, they would certainly know his saxophone, which is heard on such Fats Domino-Dave Bartholomew hits as “Ain’t That a Shame,” “I’m Walkin’,” “Blue Monday,” “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Someday” and even Lloyd Price’s 1952 classic “Lawdy Miss Clawdy.”

Aw, man... he had an amazing life. I got to shake his hand once, when I was at this:

During Jazz Fest 2001, the Knights pulled off one of its biggest coups to date, presenting the superb but largely forgotten '60s soul singer Howard Tate at the Circle Bar.

"Someone handed me an article that said he was alive in Philadelphia, and I emailed the guy who wrote the article and asked for his phone number," remembers Dr. Ike. "So I called Howard and told him we'd like to get him to New Orleans, and this was two weeks before Jazz Fest. He said he wanted to come, so I talked to Derek Huston of the Iguanas, who worked out the horn arrangements in 10 days. The band rehearsed the afternoon of the show, and it helps when you have (guitarist) Lil' Buck Sinegal and the great rhythm section of Alonzo Johnson and Nat Jolivette.

"The other thing about that night is, as great as Howard Tate was, what went down at the jam session after was out of control: Jody Williams playing with Classie Ballou, Freddie Roulette on lap steel, and Herb Hardesty playing sax," Dr. Ike continues. "It was pretty mind-blowing."

I'm jealous, as I did not go down there that year.