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David Louis Bartholomew (December 24, 1918 – June 23, 2019) was an American musician, bandleader, composer,
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, and
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. He was prominent in the music of
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throughout the second half of the 20th century. Originally a trumpeter, he was active in many musical genres, including
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, New Orleans jazz, and
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. In his induction into the
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, he was cited as a key figure in the transition from
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and swing to R&B and as "one of the Crescent City's greatest musicians and a true pioneer in the rock and roll revolution".Dave Bartholomew biography
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
Many musicians have recorded Bartholomew's songs, but his partnership with
Fats Domino Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New O ...
produced some of his greatest successes. In the mid-1950s they wrote more than forty hits for
Imperial Records Imperial Records is an American record company and label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd. The label was reactivated in 2006 by EMI, which owned the label and back catalogue at the time. Imperial is owned by Universal Music Group. Early years to ...
, including the '' Billboard'' number one
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hit "
Ain't That a Shame "Ain't That a Shame" is a song written by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. Domino's recording of the song, originally stated as "Ain't It a Shame", released by Imperial Records in 1955, was a hit, eventually selling a million copies. It reached n ...
". Bartholomew's other hit songs as a composer include "
I Hear You Knocking "I Hear You Knocking" (or "I Hear You Knockin'") is a rhythm and blues song written by Dave Bartholomew. New Orleans rhythm and blues singer Smiley Lewis first recorded the song in 1955. The lyrics tell of the return of a former lover who is re ...
", " Blue Monday", "
I'm Walkin' "I'm Walkin'" is a 1957 song by Fats Domino, written together with frequent collaborator Dave Bartholomew. The single was Domino's third release in a row to reach No. 1 on the R&B Best Sellers chart, where it stayed for six weeks. It also broaden ...
", " My Ding-a-Ling", and "
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". He was a member of the
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, the
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, and the
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.


Biography


Early life

He was born Davis Bartholomew on December 24, 1918, in
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, to Mary and Louis Bartholomew.Eagle, Bob L.; LeBlanc, Eric S. (2013)
''Blues: A Regional Experience''
ABC-CIO. p. 172.
He learned to play his father's preferred instrument, the
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, then took up the trumpet, taught to him by Peter Davis, who had also tutored
Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...
. Around 1933, Bartholomew moved with his parents to
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, where he played in local
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and brass bands, including
Papa Celestin Oscar Phillip Celestin (January 1, 1884 – December 15, 1954) better known by stage name Papa Celestin was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader. Life and career Celestin was born in Napoleonville, Louisiana, to a Creole family, son of a s ...
's, as well as Fats Pichon's band on a
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. He took charge of Pichon's band in 1941, and after a stay in
Jimmie Lunceford James Melvin Lunceford (June 6, 1902 – July 12, 1947) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era. Early life Lunceford was born on a farm in the Evergreen community, west of the Tombigbee River, near Fulton, Mi ...
's band joined the
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during
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. He developed writing and
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skills as a member of the 196th
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Band.Campbell, Al
"Artist Biography"
Allmusic.com. Retrieved September 2, 2015.


Early music career

At the end of the war Bartholomew returned to New Orleans and, by November 1945, had started leading his own dance band, Dave Bartholomew and the Dew Droppers, named after a now-defunct local hotel and nightclub, the
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. The band became locally popular, described as "the bedrock of R&B in the city", and, according to the music historian Robert Palmer, was a "model for early rock 'n' roll bands the world over". A local journalist wrote of the band, in June 1946: "Putting it mildly, they make the house 'rock'." In 1947, they were invited by club owner Don Robey to perform in
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, where Bartholomew met
Lew Chudd Lewis Robert Chudd (July 11, 1911 – June 15, 1998) was an American record label and radio executive who founded Imperial Records in 1946. The record company was influential in the development of rock and roll, with a roster of musicians including ...
, the founder of
Imperial Records Imperial Records is an American record company and label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd. The label was reactivated in 2006 by EMI, which owned the label and back catalogue at the time. Imperial is owned by Universal Music Group. Early years to ...
. Bartholomew and his band made their first recordings, including "She's Got Great Big Eyes", at
Cosimo Matassa Cosimo Vincent Matassa (April 13, 1926 – September 11, 2014) was an American recording engineer and studio owner, responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings. Life and career Matassa was born in New Orleans in 1926.Komorowsk ...
's New Orleans studio for
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in September 1947. Their first hit was "Country Boy", credited to Dave Bartholomew and His Orchestra, which reached No. 14 in the national '' Billboard''
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in early 1950. Prominent members of the band, besides Bartholomew on trumpet and occasional vocals, were the saxophonists
Alvin Tyler Alvin Owen "Red" Tyler (December 5, 1925 – April 3, 1998) was an American R&B and neo-bop jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, regarded as "one of the most important figures in New Orleans R&B". Biography Born and raised in New Orleans, Ty ...
, Herb Hardesty, and Clarence Hall, the bass player
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, the guitarist
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, the pianist Salvador Doucette, and the drummer
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. They were later joined by the saxophonist
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.


Imperial Records and Fats Domino

Two years after they had first met in Houston, Lew Chudd asked Bartholomew to become Imperial's A&R man in New Orleans. Bartholomew produced Imperial's first national hits, "3 x 7 = 21", written by him and recorded by the female singer Jewel King, and " The Fat Man", recorded in December 1949 by a young pianist,
Fats Domino Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New O ...
. "The Fat Man" — based on the drug-themed "
Junker's Blues Junker Blues is a piano blues song first recorded in 1940 by Champion Jack Dupree. It formed the basis of several later songs including the 1949 " The Fat Man" by Fats Domino and the 1952 "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price. The song is about a dr ...
", with lyrics rewritten by Bartholomew and Domino to attract a wider audience — reached No. 2 on the R&B chart and eventually sold over one million copies, kicking off Domino's career. Both records featured Bartholomew's band, as did a succession of further hits through the 1950s. Bartholomew's "genial, steady-rolling arrangements" contributed to the music's success. Cosimo Matassa said, 'Many times I think Fats' very salvation was Dave being able to be stern enough and rigid enough to insist on things getting done... He was adamant as he could be about the discipline of the players.' Bartholomew left Imperial after a disagreement with Chudd at the end of 1950, and for two years he recorded for other labels, including
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,
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and Specialty. Among his recordings at King was " My Ding-a-Ling", which Bartholomew wrote and first recorded in January 1952; the song was later recorded by
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, who had an international hit with it in 1972, although Berry substantially changed the song's arrangement and verses and claimed credit for writing it. While at Specialty, Bartholomew produced
Lloyd Price Lloyd Price (March 9, 1933May 3, 2021) was an American singer-songwriter, record executive and bandleader, known as "Mr. Personality", after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was a hit for S ...
's recording of "
Lawdy Miss Clawdy "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" is a song by New Orleans singer/songwriter Lloyd Price that "grandly introduced '' The New Orleans Sound''". It was first recorded by Price in 1952 with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew during his first session for Art Rupe ...
", which featured Domino (uncredited) on piano. The single reached No. 1 on the R&B chart in mid-1952. After that success, Bartholomew returned to Imperial to work again on Domino's recordings, co-writing and producing a series of R&B hits for him. Domino's crossover to the pop chart came in 1955 with "
Ain't That a Shame "Ain't That a Shame" is a song written by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. Domino's recording of the song, originally stated as "Ain't It a Shame", released by Imperial Records in 1955, was a hit, eventually selling a million copies. It reached n ...
" (initially titled "Ain't It A Shame"), on which Bartholomew deliberately sought to make Domino's style more appealing to white record buyers. Further hits followed through the late 1950s and early 1960s: "
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" and " Blue Monday" (both in 1956), "
I'm Walkin' "I'm Walkin'" is a 1957 song by Fats Domino, written together with frequent collaborator Dave Bartholomew. The single was Domino's third release in a row to reach No. 1 on the R&B Best Sellers chart, where it stayed for six weeks. It also broaden ...
" (1957), "
I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday "I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday" is a popular song written by Roy Hayes, Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. The song was first recorded by Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers in 1957 and released in the same year. Origin The song's lyrics were written by ...
" (1959), "
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" (1961) — all co-written and produced by Bartholomew — and "
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" (1956) and "
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" (1960), also produced by Bartholomew. Over the same period, Bartholomew wrote, arranged, and produced recordings by many other Imperial artists, including
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(for whom Bartholomew wrote "
I Hear You Knocking "I Hear You Knocking" (or "I Hear You Knockin'") is a rhythm and blues song written by Dave Bartholomew. New Orleans rhythm and blues singer Smiley Lewis first recorded the song in 1955. The lyrics tell of the return of a former lover who is re ...
" and "
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", both of which were hits and were later recorded by other musicians), the
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, Chris Kenner,
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,
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, Robert Parker,
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, Roy Brown,
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, and
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(who recorded for Aladdin Records and for whom Bartholomew produced " Let the Good Times Roll"). Several of Bartholomew's songs were later covered by other musicians. "Ain't That A Shame" was recorded successfully by
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; "I Hear You Knocking" was a hit for
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in the 1950s and Dave Edmunds in the 1970s; "One Night" and "
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" were hits for
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; and "I'm Walkin'" was a hit for
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. On several of his songs, a co-writing credit was given to his wife, Pearl King (sometimes confused with the musician Earl King).


Later life and death

After Imperial was sold to
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in
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in 1963, Bartholomew remained in New Orleans, working for
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and
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and then establishing his own label,
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, in 1967. The label folded the following year, when its distributor,
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, collapsed. In the 1970s and 1980s, Bartholomew led a traditional
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band in New Orleans, releasing an album, ''Dave Bartholomew's New Orleans Jazz Band'', in 1981. He also took part in Fats Domino's international tours during that period. He was inducted into the
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as a non-performer in 1991, and released two further albums in that decade, ''Dave Bartholomew and the Maryland Jazz Band'' (1995) and ''New Orleans Big Beat'' (1998), while continuing to make occasional appearances with his band at festivals. Bartholomew married Pearl King in 1942. After her death in 1967"Songs written by Pearl King", ''Secondhandsongs.com''
Retrieved June 24, 2019.
he married Rhea (née Douse), with whom he had four sons and one daughter. He remained a resident of New Orleans, and celebrated his
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on Christmas Eve 2018, but plans for a celebration concert were suspended after he was hospitalized.Dave Lifton, "Rock Pioneer Dave Bartholomew Turns 100", ''ultimateclassicrock.com'', December 24, 2018
Retrieved June 23, 2019
Bartholomew died of heart failure at
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in
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on June 23, 2019, and was buried at St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Gentilly.John Pope, "Dave Bartholomew, New Orleans composer who helped create rock 'n' roll, dies at 100", ''NOLA.com'', June 23, 2019
. Retrieved June 24, 2019


Chart hits and other notable songs


See also

* New Orleans rhythm and blues


References


External links


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