Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino

The album was released on Imperial Records, catalog #LP-9004, in March 1956{{cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/32d6784c-d243-4c0d-acbe-fdb79c3a1aac |title=Fats Domino – Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino (Imperial LP-9004, March 1956) |website=musicbrainz.org |access-date=22 January 2020}} and reissued by London Records under the title Carry on Rockin'.{{cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/98a6b3df-a936-486c-a790-adc207df7625 |title=Fats Domino – Carry On Rockin' (London Records, HA-P 20141, 1956) |website=musicbrainz.org |access-date=22 January 2020}}

In spite of the term "rock and rollin'", the artist was not convinced that his work was of that genre. In 1956, he made this comment: "What they call rock and roll is rhythm and blues, and I've been playing it for 15 years in New Orleans."

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When Domino left Imperial in 1963 to join Paramount, Imperial retained the rights to this and several other of Domino's notable albums,{{cite book | last = Hoffman | first = Frank W. | chapter = Domino, Antoine "Fats" | editor = Frank W. Hoffmann, Howard Ferstler | title = Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound: M-Z. Index | publisher = CRC Press | year = 2005 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC&dq=%22Rock+and+Rollin%27+With+Fats+Domino%22&pg=PA325 | page = 325 | isbn = 0-415-93835-X}} reissuing it on LP as recently as 1981.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r35710}} In particular, the album was reissued in 1969 as stereo (in fact "Electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo", as printed on cover) by Liberty Records, the new owner of Imperial Records, with catalog# LP-12387{{cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/368c1326-46e6-4a13-a5ce-6598601133b4 |title=Fats Domino – Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino (Imperial LP-12387, 1969) |website=musicbrainz.org |access-date=22 January 2020}}, and later in 1978 by United Artists Records, the new owner of Liberty Records, with catalog# UAS 29.097.{{cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/039e56ed-b620-4b6e-84bb-479f59bc1170 |title=Fats Domino – Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino (United Artists 29.29297, 1978) |website=musicbrainz.org |access-date=22 January 2020}}{{refn|group=note|It is worth noting that all releases and reissues of this album, like the other two albums by Imperial Records, Fats Domino Swings (12,000,000 Records) (1958){{cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/6b4a5a8b-9530-4294-9858-72f0d3716784 |title=Fats Domino – Fats Domino Swings (12,000,000 Records) (Imperial LP 9062, December 1958) |website=musicbrainz.org |access-date=22 January 2020}} and Let's Dance with Domino (1963){{cite web|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/9a14f8e2-ef1c-431d-bcd6-0ee0f57ef3dc |title=Fats Domino – Let's Dance with Domino (Imperial LP-9239, May 1963) |website=musicbrainz.org |access-date=22 January 2020}} and its reissues by subsequent owners of this label included the recording "Ain't It a Shame". Only in the reissue by London Records this recording was titled "Ain't That a Shame".}}

It has subsequently been reissued in conjunction with another early Domino album, Million Sellers by Fats, as Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino/Million Sellers by Fats.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r371749|label=Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino/Million Sellers By Fats}}

Although this was Domino's album debut, the R&B pianist had already been recording singles for seven years at the time of this release.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r35704|label=Carry on Rockin'}} The album compiled a number of Domino's hit singles as well as some songs that would soon become hit singles, including "Ain't It a Shame" (#1 ""Black Singles", #10 "Pop Singles"), "All by Myself" (#1 "Black Singles"), "Poor Me" (#1 "Black Singles"), "Bo Weevil" (#5 "Black Singles", #35 "Pop Singles") and "Don't Blame It On Me" (#9 "Black Singles"), but omitted "Don't You Know" (#7 "Black Singles"), "I Can't Go On" (#6 "Black Singles") and "Thinking of You" (#14, "Black Singles").{{cite book | last = Strong | first = Martin C. | title = The Great Rock Discography: Complete Discographies Listing Every Track Recorded by More Than 1,200 Artists | publisher = Canongate U.S. | year = 2004 | pages = 434 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_WoRAPJQ58sC&dq=%22Fats+Domino%22+album+discography&pg=PA434 | isbn = 1-84195-615-5}}{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p71595|label=Fats Domino Billboard Singles}}

Except where otherwise noted, all songs by Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino.

1. "The Fat Man" – 2:33
2. "Tired of Crying" (Domino) – 2:10
3. "Goin' Home" (Domino, Al Young) – 2:09
4. "You Said You Loved Me" – 2:32
5. "Going to the River" – 2:28
6. "Please Don't Leave Me" (Domino) – 2:30
7. "Rose Mary" – 2:10
8. "All by Myself" – 2:18
9. "Ain't It a Shame" – 2:23
10. "Poor Me" – 2:15
11. "Bo Weevil" – 2:01
12. "Don't Blame It on Me" – 2:38

• Fats Domino – piano, vocals
• Bunny Robyn – presumed producer

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