I Want You to Know (Fats Domino song)

"I Want You to Know"

Single by Fats Domino
Released	1957

"I Want You to Know" is a 1957 Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew song. Since Domino was on the road touring Bartholomew hired Allen Toussaint to lay down the piano track.^[1] The other side of the single was "The Big Beat" , which although listed second on the cover, also became a hit. It was covered by The Everly Brothers in 1960.

References

↑ Grace Lichtenstein Musical Gumbo: The Music of New Orleans 1993 p112 "Fats Domino was on the road; Bartholomew needed someone to lay down his piano track for an upcoming recording on which Fats would dub the vocals later. Toussaint obliged and the tune, "I Want You to Know," made the charts in due course. "I played precisely like Fats Domino would have played it," he noted, not a difficult job for him since he regularly practiced note-for-note covers of piano parts..."

Fats Domino

Studio albums	Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino (1955)

Tribute albums	Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (1996) That's Fats: A Tribute to Fats Domino (2007)

Songs	"The Fat Man" "Ain't That a Shame" "I'm in Love Again" "Blueberry Hill" "Blue Monday" "I'm Walkin'" "I Want You to Know" "Walking to New Orleans" "My Girl Josephine" "It Keeps Rainin'" "Red Sails in the Sunset"

Related	Discography

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