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Artist:Fats Domino
Label:  Imperial
Country:USA
Catalogue:5099
Date:Sep 1950
Format:10"
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Community: 4 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:$155
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
AFats DominoKorea BluesA. Young, D. Bartholomew1.0  Rate
BFats DominoEvery Night About This TimeA. Domino9.0  Rate


Notes

A mx: IM-215 (label); IM-215 Ⓓ (runout);
B mx: IM-216 (label); IM-216 Ⓓ (runout).
Recorded New Orleans, LA, September 1950.

Billboard, Sept. 23, 1950, page 39: Imperial ad (lists "Korea Blues" as A side)

Billboard, Oct. 28, 1950, page 39: Imperial ad (lists "Korea Blues" as B side)

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Comments and Reviews
 
laviolet
6th Jan 2019
 Uploaded Billboard ad from September 23, 1950, which lists the sides in reverse order from the following month's ad. I don't like the bugle either. The Domino records with Al Young were mostly commercially successful, but poorly produced.
 

 
deezee
3rd Feb 2018
 Review
Who cannot agree ?? Is this possible to like ??? Has anyone EVER liked it ?????

The bugle is appalling but not only that. Maybe it just might have been bearable if it was way in the background to give the effect of a bugle call way over the hill in the distance. But the studio wasn't capable of doing this.

I tend to wonder whether they had the capability to dub this on and re-record the acetate in this way. It was possible by playing back the original acetate in the studio. I remember that Modern did this with a Pee Wee Crayton disc. But Cosimo's original studio was very basic at this time. Also, if this was done, I'd think Cosimo would get a better balance than this.

Every 5 years or so I try to 'like' this but it remains unlistenable. A real shame because Fats does a great blues beneath the noise, so bad it hurts my teeth. Maybe this was originally intended by Bartholomew to actually be the "A" side (gasp) but I'm sure Imperial immediately swapped it round. Why didn't they use "Hey Fat Man"? Maybe they deemed that Korea was topical. But, if so they should have remade it. I'm left wondering if Bartholomew actually heard the results played back?

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xiphophilos
17th Nov 2016
 A side:


I agree, the bugle is only annoying.
 

 
slholzer
4th Jan 2015
 Korea Blues is a standard Fats Domino blues record except that it is peppered with over dubbed bugle calls. The poster of the track on You Tube ascribes the trumpet work and decision making to Dave Bartholomew. No doubt he thought it would make a viable novelty. Perhaps it is to the extent that everybody needs to hear it once, which is a few more times than most records get heard. It isn't Spike Jones, though, and if they were aiming for poignancy, they missed it. I doubt that Fats Domino wants to be remembered for this, and I don't choose to.
 

 
BigBadBluesMan
23rd Dec 2013
 
 


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