* 1943 – Fats Waller, American musician ( b. 1904 )

The song is also become a jazz standard, having been recorded by Grant Green, Fats Waller, Archie Shepp, Hampton Hawes and many others.

* Stride piano-A style of piano which emerged after World War I, developed by and dominated by black East coast pianists ( James P. Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie ' The Lion ' Smith ).

* December 15 – Fats Waller, African-American jazz pianist ( Ain't Misbehavin ) ( b. 1904 )

** Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian ( d. 1943 )

Later in New York he took advice from Will Marion Cook, Fats Waller, and Sidney Bechet.

He favors jazz ( especially bebop ), blues, classic rhythm-and-blues, classical, and country-and-western music ; his favorite musicians include saxophonists Charlie Parker and Lester Young, pianists Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, and Fats Waller, and Delta bluesman Robert Johnson.

* Fats Waller

Fats Waller in the 1930s sometimes played the celesta with his right hand and the piano simultaneously with his left hand.

Razaf collaborated with composers Eubie Blake, Don Redman, James P. Johnson, Harry Brooks, and Fats Waller.

Fats Waller ( May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943 ), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother.

Waller played with many performers, from Nat Shilkret ( on Victor 21298-A ) and Gene Austin to Erskine Tate to Adelaide Hall, but his greatest success came with his own five-or six-piece combo, " Fats Waller and his Rhythm ".

After sessions with Ted Lewis ( 1930 ), Jack Teagarden ( 1931 ), and Billy Banks's Rhythmakers ( 1932 ), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.

* Fats Waller, jazz pianist

He met Fats Waller, who was playing organ at the Lincoln Theater accompanying silent movies, and Waller taught him how to play that instrument.

Hearing Fats Waller, Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins led him towards jazz and he picked up the saxophone and flute while in high school.

It was gonna have Duke Ellington and Fats Waller jazzing up the soundtrack.

He presented Domino alone at his piano singing as if he were a young Nat ' King ' Cole or Fats Waller, and he " had Fats stand up during the last verse of the song to reveal his pudgy figure.

However, many notable jazz musicians are associated with rent parties, including pianists Speckled Red, James P. Johnson, Willie " the Lion " Smith, and Fats Waller, although rent parties also featured bands as well.

Tatum drew inspiration from the pianists James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, who exemplified the stride piano style, and from the more " modern " Earl Hines, six years Tatum's senior.

* Piano: Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Nat Jaffe, Jelly Roll Morton, Jess Stacy, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller

Blues music was relatively well known to British Jazz musicians and fans, particularly in the works of figures like female singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues influenced Boogie Woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.

Allen continued making many recordings under his own name, as well as recording with Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton, and accompanying such vocalists as Victoria Spivey and Billie Holiday.

In addition to Armstrong, in New York Singleton played with Bubber Miley, Tommy Ladnier, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton and Otto Hardwick.

* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

The group would, however, create videos for " The Third Reich ' n Roll " ( which used props from Vileness Fats ), " One Minute Movies ", " Hello Skinny ", and their cover of " It's A Man's Man's Man's World ".

In addition to songs that would eventually appear on Let It Be, this set included " Teddy Boy ", " The Walk " ( a song by Jimmy McCracklin ), and a rock and roll melody including songs such I'm Ready ( An early Fats Dominio song ), and Shake Rattle and Roll ( by Big Joe Turner ).

Other notable recordings of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " include a version by Arthur Conley which was a hit in 1968, as well as cover versions of Turner's and Haley's arrangements by The Beatles, Sam Cooke, Willy DeVille, Johnny Horton, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, NRBQ, Huey Lewis and the News, Doc Watson.

The tune was brought into the early rock and roll repertory by Fats Domino and ( as " The Saint's Rock and Roll ") by Bill Haley & His Comets.

After World War II, Jamaicans purchased radios in increasing numbers and were able to hear rhythm and blues music from Southern United States cities such as New Orleans by artists such as Fats Domino and Louis Jordan.

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

* Satch Plays Fats – Louis Armstrong

The classic " Margie ", written when Robinson was in the ODJB, has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Benny Goodman, Jim Reeves, Al Jolson, Cab Calloway, Gene Krupa, and Fats Domino, among others.

After returning briefly to New Orleans, where he worked with the bands of Fate Marable and Fats Pichon, he was offered a recording contract with Victor Records and returned to New York City, where he also joined the Luis Russell band, which was later fronted by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.

Artists such as Fats Waller, Louis Jordan, Dorothy Dandridge, Big Joe Turner, Meade Lux Lewis, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, and Stepin Fetchit all made Soundies.

He toured the Midwest in 1939 and 1940 with the Les Hite band, which accompanied the likes of Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller.

Johnson's musical legacy is present in the body of work of the more famous Fats Waller as well as scores of other pianists who were influenced by him, such as Art Tatum, Donald Lambert, Louis Mazetier, Pat Flowers, Joe Turner, Cliff Jackson, Hank Duncan, Claude Hopkins, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Don Ewell, Johnny Guarnieri, Dick Hyman, Dick Wellstood, Ralph Sutton, Neville Dickie, Mike Lipskin, Jim Turner, Bernd Lhotzky, Chris Hopkins and Butch Thompson.

He frequently arranged jazz sessions for various record labels, sometimes playing with the artists he brought to the recording studios, including Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller.

The club was a white-only establishment even though it featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the era including Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Lottie Gee, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ethel Waters.

Brewer re-emerged as a jazz vocalist on Thiele's Amsterdam label in the 1980s and 1990s recording a number of albums including tribute albums to Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Irving Berlin.

", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, Gene Rodemich, Marion Harris, George Wettling, and Erroll Garner ; " The Lonesome Road ", written with Nat Shilkret, recorded by Bing Crosby, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Mildred Bailey, Les Paul, Judy Garland, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dick Dale, The Fendermen, Frank Sinatra, Chet Atkins, Bobby Darin, Duane Eddy, Paul Robeson, Jerry Vale, Muggsy Spanier, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, Frankie Laine and Ted Lewis ; " Riding Around in the Rain ", written with Carmen Lombardo and " The Voice of the Southland ".

In its heyday from 1930 through the early 1950s, 52nd Street clubs hosted such jazz legends as Miles Davis, Harry Gibson, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Nat Jaffe, Marian McPartland, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Louis Prima, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, and many more.

Artists and groups he worked with included Louis Cottrell, Jr., Fats Domino, Champion Jack Dupree, The Dookie Chase Orchestra, Roy Brown's Band, The Onward Brass Band, The Olympia Brass Band, The Williams Brass Band, and The Royal Brass Band.

Rhythm Club, in Harlem, in the early part of the 1930s, a place where Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and Earl Hines frequented.

Many artists have recorded the song since Williams released it, including Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Patsy Cline, Del Shannon, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Jon Foreman, Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, and LeAnn Rimes ; the biggest hit version of the song was done by Joni James, reaching # 2 on the Billboard pop chart in 1953 ; the Rat Pack actor Joey Bishop recorded an infamously bad version of it in the 1960s.

Its earliest star performers included singers Ethel Waters, Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Minto Cato, and Adelaide Hall ; comedian Tim Moore with his Chicago Follies company ( which included his wife Gertie ); the Whitman Sisters and their Company ; musicians Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Joe " King " Oliver, and Duke Ellington ; comics Sandy Burns, Salem Whitney Tutt, and Tom Fletcher ; future Paris sensation Josephine Baker ; songwriter and pianist Perry Bradford, the mime Johnny Hudgins ; dancers U. S. Thompson, Walter Batie, Earl " Snakehips " Tucker, and Valaida Snow ; comic monologuist Boots Hope ; and many others.

Artists and groups that were important to the formative years of this genre include: Clifford Curry, Artie Shaw, Wynonie Harris, Ruth Brown, Little Willie John, Earl Bostic, The Drifters, Jimmy Cavallo, Wilbert Harrison, Clyde McPhatter, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, Hank Ballard, James & Bobby Purify, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, The Tams, Bob and Earl, The Tymes, The 5 Royales, The Coasters, Fats Domino, Jimmy McCracklin, Brenton Wood, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, Jimmy James, The Platters, The Four Tops, Louis Prima, Arthur Alexander, Stick McGhee, Jackie Brenston, Wilbert Harrison, Tyrone Davis, Big Joe Turner, Bruce Channel, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Dinah Washington, Billy Stewart, The Temptations, The Impressions, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The O ' Jays, The Spinners, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, The Checkers, The Clovers, Barbara Lewis, Don Covay, Mary Wells, Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters, Ben E. King, Major Lance, Willie Tee and Ernie K-Doe.

Angels, caricatures of jazz performers Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Jimmie Lunceford, tell Saint Peter that to get people to paradise he will need " rhythm " ( the short's credits list no voice actors, but a member of the all-black jazz group the Four Blackbirds — possibly Leroy Hurt — provides the cartoon's celebrity impressions ).

Freleng's choice to caricature Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Louis Armstrong shows the crossover appeal of those performers among white audiences in the 1930s.

From Friz Freleng's 1937 " products come to life " Merrie Melodies short, September In The Rain, the recorded performance of " Nagasaki " is re-used completely intact, and the " Fats Waller " cat, " Louis Armstrong " trumpeter, jitterbugging woman and the trio of singing bartenders are re-prurposed for this cartoon.

During an extremely long career ( Adelaide entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most enduring recording artist ), Hall has performed with major artists such as Art Tatum Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande and Jools Holland, and has recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington ( with whom she made her most famous recording, " Creole Love Call " in 1927 ) and with Fats Waller.

The show presented Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five, The Treniers, and The Collins Kids.