Let's Play Fats Domino

This Is Fats is a 1959 studio album by American rock and roll pianist Fats Domino, released on Imperial Records.

Reception
A contemporary review in Billboard highlighted how many hits the album had and its strong New Orleans sound. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide scores this release alongside all of Domino's Imperial albums as 4.5 out of five stars. The editorial staff of AllMusic Guide scored this album 3.5 out of five stars, with reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine characterizing it as a "terrifically entertaining listen" and summing up his review "maybe it's not the best Fats Domino album ever, but as it's playing it's hard to imagine listening to anything better than this".

Track listing
All songs written by Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino, except where noted.

Side one: Side one Vinyl Lovers re-release bonus track: Side two: Side two Vinyl Lovers re-release bonus track:
 * 1) "You Left Me" – 2:02
 * 2) "Ain't It Good" – 2:38
 * 3) "Howdy Podner" – 2:09
 * 4) "Stack & Billy" – 2:00
 * 5) "Would You" (Victor A. Augustine, Domino, and Pearl King) – 1:58
 * 6) "Margie" (Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson) – 2:15
 * 1) "You Done Me Wrong" (Domino) – 2:10
 * 1) "Hands Across the Table" (Jean Delettre and Mitchell Parish) – 1:57
 * 2) "When the Saints Go Marching In" (traditional, arrangement by Bartholomew and Domino) – 2:23
 * 3) "Ida Jane" (Domino) – 2:14
 * 4) "Lil' Liza Jane" (Countess Ada de Lachau, with new lyrics by Bartholomew and Domino) – 1:51
 * 5) "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day" (Bartholomew, Domino, and Roy Hayes) – 2:02
 * 6) "I Want to Walk You Home" (Domino) – 2:15
 * 1) "So Long" – 2:10

Personnel
Adapted from the liner notes from the Vinyl Lovers re-release: "You Left Me" (recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and December 1953) "Ain't It Good" (recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and December 1953) "Howdy Podner" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between October and November 1955) "Stack & Billy" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1957) "Would You" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1957) "Margie" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1958) "You Done Me Wrong" (recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and December 1953) "Hands Across the Table" (recorded in Los Angeles, California, October 1958) "When the Saints Go Marching In" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and November 1958) "Lil' Liza Jane" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and November 1958) "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between June and November 1958) "Ida Jane" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 25, 1956) "I Want to Talk You Home" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 18, 1958) "So Long" (recorded at Cosimo Recording Studio, New Orleans, Louisiana, between October and November 1955)
 * Fats Domino – vocals and piano, except on "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day" (vocals only)
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Billy Diamond – bass guitar
 * Wendell Duconge – alto saxophone
 * Robert “Buddy” Hagans – tenor saxophone
 * Walter "Papoose" Nelson – guitar
 * Lee Allen – tenor saxophone
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Billy Diamond – bass guitar
 * Wendell Duconge – alto saxophone
 * Walter "Papoose" Nelson – guitar
 * Lee Allen or Herb Hardesty or Buddy Hagans – tenor saxophone
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Frank Fields – bass guitar
 * Clarence Ford – alto saxophone
 * Ernest McLean – guitar
 * Lee Allen or Clarence Ford or Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Frank Fields – bass guitar
 * Ernest McLean – guitar
 * Lee Allen or Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Frank Fields – bass guitar
 * Walter "Papoose" Nelson – guitar
 * Earl Palmer – drums
 * Red Callender or Jimmie Davis – bass guitar
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Wendell Duconge – alto saxophone
 * Clarence Ford – baritone saxophone
 * Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone
 * Walter "Papoose" Nelson – guitar
 * Lee Allen – tenor saxophone
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Frank Fields – bass guitar
 * Robert “Buddy” Hagans – tenor saxophone
 * Walter "Papoose" Nelson – guitar
 * Red Callender or Jimmie Davis – bass guitar
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Plas Johnson – baritone saxophone
 * Walter "Papoose" Nelson – guitar
 * Cornelius Coleman or Earl Palmer – drums
 * Jimmie Davis – bass guitar
 * Wendell Duconge – alto saxophone
 * Clarence Ford – tenor saxophone
 * Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Plas Johnson – baritone saxophone
 * Ernest McLean – guitar
 * Allen Toussaint – piano
 * Cornelius Coleman or Earl Palmer – drums
 * Jimmie Davis – bass guitar
 * Wendell Duconge – alto saxophone
 * Clarence Ford – tenor saxophone
 * Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Plas Johnson – baritone saxophone
 * Ernest McLean – guitar
 * Cornelius Coleman or Earl Palmer – drums
 * Jimmie Davis – bass guitar
 * Wendell Duconge – alto saxophone
 * Clarence Ford – tenor saxophone
 * Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Plas Johnson – baritone saxophone
 * Ernest McLean – guitar
 * Justin Adams – guitar
 * Lee Allen – tenor saxophone
 * Dave Bartholomew – trumpet
 * Herb Hardesty – tenor saxophone
 * Frank Fields – bass guitar
 * Ernest McLean – guitar
 * Charles Williams – drums
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Jimmie Davis – bass guitar
 * Clarence Ford – saxophone
 * Buddy Hagans – saxophone
 * Roy Montrell or Walter "Papoose" Nelson – guitar
 * Lee Allen or Herb Hardesty or Buddy Hagans – tenor saxophone
 * Cornelius Coleman – drums
 * Frank Fields – bass guitar
 * Clarence Ford – alto saxophone
 * Ernest McLean – guitar