His son is the spitting image! Great documentary. Thanks so much for uploading.

Mr Thomas is considered one of the best pianists who ever lived.The man was made of music.

I love showing people Fats Waller videos on youtube, he was clearly one of the most entertaining and talented people that will ever exist on any planet, god bless ya Fats : )

@thestrobets8225

5 жыл бұрын

Laser DuChamp that's my great Grandfather n Grandfather

@Pentagonshark666

3 жыл бұрын

@@thestrobets8225 So you are they guy who plays american football?

@NashvilleTuneStream

Жыл бұрын

If I could meet anyone from the past that I never met, it would be Fats Waller and Django Reinhardt.

@laserduchamp8071

Жыл бұрын

@@thestrobets8225 Man.. that's amazing.. I'm sure you're very proud.. and rightly so.. a true legend.. hope you and your family are well and live long and happy days: )

God bless your Dad, a supreme talent. Who stood up to "the man", as best he could, and still feed his family, when most did not. He should be exhalted, not discredited. A big heart like his, loaded with song, can more gently rise above, rather than knock down, any barrier.

@dannyboywhaa3146

3 жыл бұрын

Just so beautifully put mate, thank you!

@40deluxe

Жыл бұрын

A belated thank you and yes when his music flowed thru the room time always stood still as well as any of the other masters of their craft- the frequencies are what open up the inner consciousness and if we only had 432htz A concert pitch which was changed by the parasite cabal to 440 we would have a better world.

A great documentary of a man who changed music forever and made everyone so happy in doing what he did. Thank you Fats.

Wonderful documentary ! My father Ralph Sutton absolutely loved Thomas and I grew up with him on the phonograph playing 78s and 331/3 - perhaps one of the greatest entertainers and stride genius of all time. Always brought happiness into whatever room he was playing in. I have my father's collection of acetates / 78s / organ and they will be preserved and passed along to my children- the man burned his candle very quick ...way too young to die at 39...I was born in 48 and would have loved to have met the man my father idolized !!

@Aaron-md2eo

2 жыл бұрын

Dear Mr. Sutton I'm also a huge fan of Fats, just as much as I am a fan of your Father. In my opinion Ralph was the one who kept the style and charm of Fats' playing alive. Thank you to both Fats and your Dad for always putting a smile on my face with each tune and being one of my biggest inspirations for my own playing. Best, Aaron

@40deluxe

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aaron-md2eo Hi Aaron, Tough times will bring out the best and Fats went thru the wringer- smilin' on the outside with many "Ps" and "Qs"which distracted him from the reality of being a multi talented black man in this so-called land of the free....all contolled by the money changers. His work ethic as a young man was stellar and was apart of the incredible genius' generation of 4 handed pianists that studied the classical composers from Mozart to the great Russian composers that grew out of Harlem- dad was the same. Here is a little history of the controlled darkness that has ramped up at light speed as of late- it is very deep but all absolutely true. This all started in Babylon over 4,000 years ago The dark side false Jew / Sumerian Babylonian Snake Cult Reptilian bloodline of the Hebrew Highwaymen......that plundered the Silk Route...infiltrated Russia 300-600AD to Khazaria .... of what is now Ukraine.... that morphed into the Khazarian Mafia Illuminati and made their way west infiltrating and taking over 140 countries. Thanks to the 1441 K M I infiltration of the true bloodline of the Royals that morphed into the Zionist British Slave Trading Colonists many different trading companies... the bankers and the Claus Schwabs with the Protocols of Zion pushing the buttons toward culling the herd. It was dad that taught me the elder wisdom that was taught to him by his father...being Irish /German / Aryan who have always been tied to the whipping post by the lies the stealing the deception of these sick dark side blood sacrificial gold standard stealing parasites! Thank you for your compliment and hope I enlightened you on who "runs" the big show for over 4,000 years.

@glenn4220

Жыл бұрын

Yikes!

Wonderful! What a great, joyful talent. Gone too soon but his work lives on.

ten days without sleep,this is insane and after three days only sleeping.this man made everything big.best musician ever.

Fats had a great voice and could play that piano. Wish I could have met him.

The hero of Harlem, the Giant of jazz, the Sultan of Stride, and Mr. "Ain't Misbehavin" himself!! Let's give it up for Thomas " Fats" Waller!!! Yeah!!

@ziggymolnar1246

4 жыл бұрын

Ain't misbehavin is his GREATEST song!!!!

So much talent in one man. Cut down in his prime.

My Man Fats! What did I do to be so black and blue? Everyone thinks of "Satchmo" = Louis Armstrong, with this song. I am so glad to know Fats wrote it. Credit where Credit is due. Fats Waller was a genius! And I love his music and who he was as a person. Didn't know he passed away on a train on the way home from California. Thanks again!

@p.stephen5032

4 жыл бұрын

😊

He looks so much like his dad!

Great the real genius of jazz and popular music

The man they all followed even Art Tatum . Fats was an incredible artist and will always be

Love Fats! Wish I could have met him. His son looks so much like him!

@ZIXI357

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed, they look so much.

@thestrobets8225

5 жыл бұрын

Jesse Cheek n my dad lookd like my Grandfather Maurice Waller

@IamDottieDandridge

5 жыл бұрын

@@thestrobets8225 you're fats great grandson?

@thestrobets8225

5 жыл бұрын

@@IamDottieDandridge great granddaughter

@wayneconn1079

4 жыл бұрын

@@thestrobets8225 Hi there so great to see you writing on here . Does anyone play piano in your family ? Thanks for taking the time for me

Thanks for this documentary. Just got into Fats Waller, good to know about the man himself. Love his music.

Fats Waller, piano playing prodigy, no question

Thank you SO MUCH for posting this.

Brilliant, thank you for uploading this gem.

Thanks for putting this great series on here.

A great documentary about this amazing man! Thanks for the upload!

How do you live well? You make friends. How do you make friends? You make people feel good. A lot of Dale Carnegie in Fats Waller. Not only a great showman, musican, songwriter, but also a fabulous salesman. He sold all of us White people on the fact that Black people were really great folks. "Do good unto those who hate you" as the Bible says. He did.

@nathanielaldom8817

9 жыл бұрын

The HOTTEST NEW ONE, .

Thanks for this documentary, good times.

Thank you. Wonderful documentary. Wonderful man.

Thanks for posting.

¡Muchas gracias por compartirlo!

just brilliant.thanks fats

Fascinating doc!

I often think about why you don't want to be friends with the likes of me I always have since I was little... And then I see how disgustingly you use to be treated "You belong right here in this elevator" ...& I just feel so angry, so hurt ...that somebody before me ruined the relationship we could've had. It really sucks standing beside you knowing what you think I may resemble... especially since I don't & never have. It really does hurt me sometimes as I am nothing like them... nor would I have been. Fantastic music. This was a great man right here

So well done.

Very interesting!

Fats is immortal.

When you're an elevator boy, you are on your way up.

@johnjames1320

3 жыл бұрын

datz right. bow and shine or stand operate the elevator. fats stood.

Thanks

"Your spots right here in this elevator" That's nasty.

Rip part 3

It's 2020 we need what's owed

Are yoU KIDDING?!?!!!?! (Flabbergasted!!) They wanted Fats to play a "shoe-shine-boy"?!?!?! (and is that the guy from Meet John Doe?!?!!!🤨...!!!) How can he say there is no difference between an elevator operator and the aforementioned?!?!! One works on his feet. The other on his knees. One works on all floors of the building. The other handles evil black grease preferred by minstrel performers, and gets stared down at and asked about his mother, by the affluent whose feet legs and the ground he never sees past and would appear to be shackled to!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the difference. Good for Mr Waller for sticking to his guns and refusing to take whatever Hollywood offered him. And even if he never got the respect or money he deserved from the industry, at least someone recognized and appreciated his talents (and hoped as i do to, share him with the world) i love the Al Capone story!!!

Wish he'd taken better care of himself. Who knows what other greatness he would've accomplished.

Your dad was cool and Smooth

Listening to a grown man, looking very much like Fats Waller, saying:"My father did this, my father was..." sounds strange to me. I just never pictured Fats Waller as a father figure.

Where is part 3?

Who is the charming woman who sang with him in Ain't Misbehavin?

Amazing Fats x

He look just like his daddy

❤️

"Tokens" get PAY-ED!!

@antoinefreeman5115

4 жыл бұрын

At the cost of your dignity? Not in a million years...

He reminds me of a west coast rapper/singer named kokane and he sounds and looks like him so I can see where kokane got his rhythm from

Who is she ?

C U in the afterlife!!!😘💋

his dad twin

What happen to part 3?

@ChristopherSyn1

5 жыл бұрын

It's there!

@josefigueroa8681

5 жыл бұрын

Its blocked

@mmcmrr

4 жыл бұрын

Not viewable. For whatever reason.

They deleted part 3 for a reason... I think it has something to do with racism...

@davidgeary490

Жыл бұрын

Nope - it's there - I watched it just now - watched all 4 parts. Great doc about Fats. My mother had Fats Waller LPs - even an all-Hammond organ one! - us 3 kids grew up listening to Fats (and Duke Ellington etc.) from age zero onwards. Mom even played a bit of stride piano when we were little kids!!

I love how fats waller calls himself "black and blue" even though he's a light-skin black person 😂😂😂

Thumbs down...where the hell is pt. 3?

@ChristopherSyn1

5 жыл бұрын

It's there!

@josefigueroa8681

5 жыл бұрын

No its not

@jugjugette5188

5 жыл бұрын

Here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n4eOt7xvotPSlaQ.html

Black music was better than - great jazz giants