#0005: Fats Domino - This Is Fats Domino (1957) [**]

I don't have a lot to say about this offering from the man most famous for his version of Blueberry Hill, which isn't included here.  It's functional upbeat music. It's not unpleasant to listen to but it's fairly bland.  It feels to me like this sort of music was churned out with as little thought in its day as, say Stock, Aitken and Waterman churned out their own assembly line pop 30 years later.

A bouncy version of As Time Goes By is a notable moment that would perhaps have been better as the theme tune to Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer's sitcom but I've no doubt Ingrid Bergman would turn in her grave.