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Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.
Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father's church four years later. At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18 years old.
He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' (Past Perfect) [Full Album]
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' - Stormy Weather (1943)
Fats Waller - Fats Waller Sings In Honor Of US Troops (40 minutes of music)
fats waller - your feet's too big
Fats Waller Plays "Handful of Keys."
Fats Waller - a documentary. Part 1
Fats Waller I´m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter
Fats Waller & Ada Brown - That Ain't Right - Stormy Weather (1943)
Fats Waller - Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose,Fats Waller
Fats Waller Ain't Misbehavin'
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' (1929)
FATS WALLER The very best
Fats Waller - The Joint Is Jumping
Actors: Cab Calloway (actor), Frank Fitzpatrick (composer), Frank Fitzpatrick (director), Frank Fitzpatrick (producer), Frank Fitzpatrick (writer), Fats Waller (actor), Mira Tweti (writer), Val Kuklowsky (editor), David Tobocman (composer), Taps Miller (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Music, Short,Actors: Wilfred Jackson (director), Clarence Nash (actor), Walt Disney (producer), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor), Dave Barry (actor),
Plot: Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting Charlie McCarthy; Simple Simon and the Pieman are Laurel and Hardy.
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