78 RPM - Fats Domino - Korea Blues / Every Night About This Time - Imperial - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Fats Domino
Label:	Imperial
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	5099
Date:	Sep 1950
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	5 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$155
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PRICE GUIDE

$155

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Fats Domino	Korea Blues	A. Young, D. Bartholomew	1.0 Rate
B	Fats Domino	Every Night About This Time	A. Domino	9.0 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)

Images

Number: 1193687 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Imperial 5099 A Side Label	Number: 1193686 Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Imperial 5099 B Side Label	Number: 2201248 Uploaded By: fredhoyt Description: Imperial 78 5099 Rec A (upgrade / no sticker)	Number: 2201250 Uploaded By: fredhoyt Description: Imperial 78 5099 Rec B (upgrade / no sticker)
Number: 1837848 Uploaded By: laviolet Description: Billboard ad, Sept. 23, 1950, p. 39	Number: 1565920 Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Imperial ad Billboard Oct 28,1950 page 39

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? 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



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