associated with juvenile delinquency and condemned as “jungle music”

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Big Al Downing, a black pianist and singer from Oklahoma who, like Twitty, would later reemerge as a country artist, had some regional success with a rockabilly single, “Down on the Farm,” but recalled that when he got his first East Coast club booking, the owner was a Fats Domino fan and insisted that he play all of Domino’s hits: “He even put a big sign in front of the window, saying ‘Big Al Domino.’ I said, ‘My name is Downing.’ He says, ‘No, it’s Domino.’ ”