Dave Bartholomew

It's Wendy Snyder

here, and I need to mention something about My Dingaling, a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew.

It was covered by Chuck Berry in 1972.

Dave Schwan and I were talking about this, and surprisingly, it became his only number one hits, which is astounding to me.

This is so funny, so iconic.

My Ding-A-Ling, a chart-topping novelty song by Dave Bartholomew-

Mm

... made famous by Chuck Berry.

The pioneers of rock and roll, as Elvis Presley said, the real king of rock and roll is Fats Domino.

Well, Fats Domino's, his partner, if you will, Dave Bartholomew, who discovered Fats in the world of recording, was our band leader.

And so Fazz Domino performed at the Dew Drop Inn.

Dave Bartholomew was a big reason that the Dew Drop Inn was as special as it is.

And so there's also a story of the impact.

You know, this is how I see it.

And so the first year that we had the festival, what we decided to do was first a museum exhibit.

We did an exhibit on Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew at the Jazz Museum, which stayed there for a year and then a sense tour to Monroe.

Following that, we're hoping to bring it to Lake Charles soon.

We had symposium-style programming, which was edutainment.

It's education and entertaining with scholarly experts talking about subject matter, but also with a rockin' band to play songs in between to keep you hot on the topic and relevant on the topic.

We did a symposium on Dave Bartholomew and Earl King.

And then we had, as you say, the three days of music on three stages.

But one of those stages is the Pass the Torch stage.

Better go back to your

smiley lewis with i hear you knocking and that's one of those classic mid-50s new orleans records driven by the distinctive rhythmic world surrounding producer and band leader dave bartholomew smiley's big rough voice is perfectly suited for that rolling beat another of those records that supplied the rhythmic muscle that southern soul would inherit And before we heard Smiley, we had a couple more from the Big Easy.

Earl King's Those Lonely, Lonely Nights.

Now, the blues isn't being shouted there so much as it's being lived in.

Welcome back to the New Year's Prog Show.

You just heard Backdoor from Kansas off of Audio Visions, and then a great Dave Bartholomew Fats Domino tune, Ain't That a Shame, live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, April 1978, a little band called Cheap Trick, and the album is at Budokan.

Hey, going with Kansas.

I've been listening to a lot of Kansas lately for whatever reason, and boy, they were ahead of their time.