My Blue Heaven: The Best of Fats Domino (1990)

Probably the calmest singer ever to become a bona fide rock & roll star, pianist Fats Domino was a hugely popular chart fixture in the latter half of the 1950s. Filtering blues and R&B traditions through the easygoing style and distinct musical accents of New Orleans, Domino and producer-songwriter Dave Bartholomew collaborated on a string of classic records that sound just as irresistible today. The fine collection in My Blue Heaven, reproduced with remarkable sonic clarity, contains all the best-known hits — ''I'm Walkin,'' ''Blueberry Hill,'' ''Ain't It a Shame,'' ''Blue Monday'' — plus 16 other smashes from the same era. A