If you were a teenager arriving home from school on this day in 1959, chances were really good that the first thing you would do when you walked in would be to turn on your TV set to watch Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. And if you did that on this day, you would have seen something a little unusual. Fats Domino performing “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

Today’s show features music performed by Fats Domino

On this day in Blues history is published every day in video format on Bluesland (on Facebook) and on Threads, as well as BlueSky