Ricky Nelson And Fats Domino
Vinyl Memories.

The Ricky Nelson and Fats Domino Vinyl Memories returns to 1985 with this special concert spot lighting this original 1957 song, I'm Walkin' in which both Ricky and Fats placed on the charts, Fats at #1 and Ricky at #4.

Many consider The Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino songs from the late fifties to be some of the best rock & roll recordings of his era.

Ricky became popular as he grew up on his parents show, "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet".

Many of us remember watching those shows. How cool it was to watch the early years of Rock & Roll coming right into your living room every week. Ricky actually did not have any singing ambitions until he recorded his first single to impress a girlfriend.

His dad arranged a one year recording contract to make a record. The single was a cover of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" and shot up to number four on Billboard's Best Sellers chart.

The flip side, "A Teenager's Romance" actually hit number two.

Whenever Ricky sang on the show, Ozzie noticed that Ricky's record sales soared the next day.

That's when Ozzie tried to work the Ricky Nelson songs into the show at the end.

As Ricky grew more popular Ozzie realized that it was going to be nearly impossible to work Ricky's songs into every show plot, so Ozzie filmed Ricky singing "Travelin' Man."

He then superimposed some travel scenes over the file and tacked it onto a show episode at the end. And as the story goes, the first music video was born. Learn how the manager of one artist disliked the song and gave it to Ricky's band member. Read about it from the Travelin' Man video link below. You can also click here for the page.