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= WallerFats Waller by sage = Fat Waller was a jazz and classic pianist that learned to play a organ at church with his mother. He unexpectently died at the age 39 on a train to Kansas city in 1926. One day when he went back stage 4 men kidnapped him and took him to Al Capone to play **for four days**. Fats Waller`s real name not Fats, it was actually Thomas Wright Waller.

some of the songs he did were African ripples, after you've gone, a handful of keys, ain't misbehaving, all god's chillun got wings, alligator crawl, baby brown, baby where can you be, baison street blues, because of once apon a time, believe it beloven, Birmingham blues, blue black bottom, blue turning gray over you, and California here I come.

he one a talent contest playing james p. johnson's "carolina shout".he learned from watching a pianola play the song. later johnson met fats for the first time and heard him play the pipe organ, he told his wife that he could teach fats. so johnson started teaching fats



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