"Fats Domino and Chubby Checker and the Beatles and Elvis we loved them all, " Mayon said.

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He's one of 30-plus artists who cut new versions of Fats Domino oldies for a tribute album titled Goin' Home.

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He sings in his own cracked and distinctive voice, yet captures the rollicking, carefree spirit (and pounding piano) of Fats Domino.

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On Saturday, drummer Shannon Powell headed from a performance with 101-year-old trumpeter Lionel Ferbos to another backing saxophonist Herbert Hardesty, who played on Fats Domino's classics.

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So, I switched to Fats Domino Hits.

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The most famous resident is Fats Domino.

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The city is still sprinkled with musicians who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, when New Orleans was a hit factory cranking out million-selling records by Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles and Huey (Piano) Smith ("Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu").

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