Dave Bartholomew, Rock And Roll Pioneer, Dies At 100

Dave Bartholomew, a famed music producer, trumpeter, songwriter and band chief whose partnership with Fat Domino helped create the rock and roll style of music, handed away in a New Orleans-area hospital at age 100.

Bartholomew’s son confirmed the information to the Related Press on Sunday (June 23). “His physique merely broke down. Daddy was 100 years and 6 months previous. It was simply that point,” his son stated.

Throughout and after his music profession, Bartholomew turned a member of the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame and the Songwriters Corridor of Fame and was the recipient of a particular Grammy Trustees Award.

Dave is greatest often known as a producer, songwriter and arranger behind Antoine “Fat” Domino’s largest hits throughout the 1950s and ’60s, a few of which embrace “Ain’t Disgrace, “Blue Monday,” “Strolling to New Orleans,” “I’m in Love Once more, “I’m Walkin’,” “The Massive Beat” and “Let the 4 Winds Blow,” amongst others. He additionally helped organize Domino’s variations of music requirements, together with “Blueberry Hill,” which might finally develop into Domino’s magnum opus.

On his relationship with Fat, Bartholomew stated the musical bond was utterly pure. “Truly, we by no means sat down to write down something. He and I simply performed,” Bartholomew advised The Occasions-Picayune in 2010. “I keep in mind one time on ‘I am in Love Once more,’ we went exterior and any individual stated, ‘Do not let the canine chunk you.’ So we come again and put that within the tune.”

The Bartholomew household’s legacy spans a full century as Dave had ties to Louis Armstrong and the beginning of jazz to his son Don’s work with fellow New Orleans native Lil Wayne and different fashionable hip-hop artists.

Dave Bartholomew is survived by his spouse and eight youngsters in addition to a number of grandchildren. Funeral preparations haven’t but been introduced.