![]() You may wish to check out our online Pulmonaria offerings. Many of these perennials can be partnered with Pulmonarias for intriguing foliar contrast. Our newsletter also includes a handful of other shade-loving perennials that promise alluring foliage. Easy-to-grow Pulmonarias prefer the lacy light of a woodland setting plus cool moist soil. Many cultivars showcase an array of mercury-hued dapples, speckles and spots, while others sport solid pewter sheens or striking silver streaks. One of the earliest perennials to bloom, you can be picking their enchanting urn-shaped flowers in February while the rest of the garden still slumbers. They can grace containers or be planted in swaths along shady walkways or in woodland gardens. Second-to-none for the dappled recesses of your garden, these easily grown, cold-hardy Primulas crave well-drained, humus-rich niches with adequate moisture and good air circulation. Many Primrose flowers waft a delectable scent. Including draped bells, candelabras, drumsticks and pincushions. sibthorpii Precious Primulas, Prized Pulmonarias and Fabulous Foliage! Primulas offer elaborately-crafted colorful blooms in varied shapes,…… “That’s all - there weren’t no more to it than that.” Enough, however, to help change the world.Our feature plant: Primula vulgaris ssp. “We was just doing what we wanted,” he said. I mentioned to him that Dave Bartholomew, the trumpeter and bandleader who had been the co-writer and musical director on his early hits, had told me a year or so earlier that, when they went into the studio back in the early ’50s, they were attempting to make the first fusion of Dixieland jazz and R&B. Given that the Beatles loved and revered his music, it’s a pity they didn’t sign him to Apple and help him make some more good records. He’d been here as part of a package tour in 1962, and had returned in 1967 for one of Brian Epstein’s concerts at the Savile Theatre. It was only Domino’s third visit to the UK. Apart from the general impression of good humour and good times, I can recall Lastie’s brisk double-shuffle on “I’m Walkin'” and an excellent gravel-toned baritone solo on “Blue Monday”. The songs they performed included “I’m Walkin'”, “Blue Monday”, “Let the Four Winds Blow”, “I’m in Love Again”, “I’m Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day”, “I Want to Walk You Home”, “Hello Josephine”, “Ain’t It a Shame”, and “So Long”, plus “The Saints”, “Stag-o-lee”, “Shake, Rattle and Roll” and Professor Longhair’s “Goin’ to the Mardi Gras”, all in 45 minutes. He’d brought a fine band from New Orleans: the ripe-toned saxophone section of Fred Shepherd (alto), Walter Kimball, Maurice Simon and Fred Kemp (tenors) and Roger Lewis (baritone), plus the great Roy Montrell on guitar, David Douglas on bass and Walter Lastie - a member of one of those Crescent City musical dynasties - on drums. He sang almost nothing that wasn’t a million-seller, or close to it, and he sang them exactly as he’d laid them down on the original recordings.” Here’s what I wrote, comparing his concert performance with those of other rock and roll pioneers in middle age: “Unlike Chuck, he wasn’t cynical or saddled with a poor backing band unlike Jerry Lee, he didn’t want to sing country ballads unlike Little Richard, he wasn’t carried away with his own divinity. When we spoke, he was without a recording contract. He dutifully ran through his history for me, the stuff that’s been in all the obituaries over the past couple of days, telling me about falling in love with the piano as a child, copying the great boogie-woogie pianists (he mentioned Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons), how Lew Chudd had signed him to Imperial, and how when Imperial was bought by Liberty he had left and made deals first with ABC Paramount, then with Mercury and Reprise. In person, giving an interview to the reporter from the Melody Maker, he was pleasant, if a little guarded. This was April 1973, and he was a couple of weeks away from his 44th birthday. ![]() Here was the man whose record sales in the 1950s were second only to Elvis Presley. On stage at the Hammersmith Odeon a couple of nights later, the look was very different: white jacket, shoes and socks, pink tie and trousers, diamonds covering his fingers, his belt buckle, his tie clip, his watch. ![]() The restored instrument now resides in an exhibit about music at the Old U.S. When I was ushered into his room in the Churchill Hotel by the personal valet who had worked for him for more than 20 years, Fats Domino was wearing his off-duty outfit: a brown knitted suit and a hair-net. Fats Dominos Waterlogged Piano was restored by the Louisiana State Museum and the Louisiana Museum Foundation by removing the mold, mildew, and rust (which required a complete disassembly).
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