Amazon.com This 1968 album wasn't the high-charting comeback Domino and Reprise Records no doubt had hoped for, but it remains a sweet restatement of the New Orleans R&B that had made Fats Domino a household name a decade earlier. Fats Is Back barely updated his approach, but added terrific covers of two apropos Beatles songs ("Lady Madonna" and "Lovely Rita") and compositions by James Booker and Barbara George to his repertoire. Finally, the disc's credits contain a nice surprise: most of the horn arrangements were written by Domino acolyte Randy Newman. --Rickey Wright
