Dave Bartholomew, New Orleans music legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, dies at 100

[IADEMO2004]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2019/06/23/dave-bartholomew-new-orleans-music-legend-dies-100/1541854001/

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Dave Bartholomew, a giant of New Orleans music and a rock n’ roll pioneer who with Fats Domino co-wrote and produced such classics as “Ain’t That a Shame,” ?I’m Walkin’” and “Let the Four Winds Blow,” has died. He was 100 years old.

A trumpet player since childhood and a bandleader and arranger before World War II, Bartholomew befriended Domino in the late 1940s and collaborated with the singer-piano player on dozens of hits that captured Domino’s good-natured appeal, making him one of rock’s first stars and New Orleans a center for popular music. Throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, virtually anyone recording in New Orleans ended up performing Bartholomew songs or working with him in the studio.
Dave Bartholomew performs at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell at the Fair Grounds Race Course on May 1, 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

artholomew’s credits extended well beyond his work with Domino, who died in 2017. He produced the Lloyd Price hit “Lawdy Miss Clawdy.” He wrote (and originally performed) the novelty song “My Ding-a-Ling” that became Chuck Berry’s first No. 1 single in the U.S. The Bartholomew-Earl King ballad “One Night” was a hit for Smiley Lewis and (in a censored version) for Elvis Presley in the 1950s and a highlight of Presley’s 1968 “comeback” Christmas television special. British rocker Dave Edmunds had success in the early 1970s with Bartholomew-King’s “I Hear You Knocking,” while John Lennon, the Four Seasons, and Cheap Trick were among those who recorded “Ain’t That a Shame.”

[Docreed2003]

1. A legend!

[Skittles]

2. what a legacy

[panader0]

3. I hear you Knocking

Some years ago my friends were having a blast in a motel room. The cops came
because of the noise. They knocked on the door and my buddy's sister started
singing the song loud. Much laughter ensued. But the cops shut down the fun.
RIP Bartholomew....

[IADEMO2004]

4. LOL Worth a try, right?

Once again I discover the music I enjoyed for years came from a much earlier time.