- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock
'n' roll legend Fats Domino was among the thousands unaccounted for in
flooded New Orleans after rebuffing friends' pleas to flee as Hurricane
Katrina bore down on the city he celebrated in song, his manager said on
Thursday.
- The 77-year-old musician, beloved for his boogie-woogie
piano style and such hits as "Ain't That a Shame," "Walking
to New Orleans" and "Blueberry Hill," was last heard from
on Sunday night, hours before Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast,
manager Al Embry said.
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- CNN later reported on its Web site that Domino was rescued
from rising floodwaters on Monday night, quoting his daughter, Karen Domino
White, who lives in New Jersey and identified her father from a newspaper
photograph showing a man being helped out of a boat by authorities.
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- Embry told Reuters he spoke with Domino by telephone
twice on Sunday, trying to persuade the singer to evacuate, but the musician
insisted he was "going to try to ride out" the storm at home
with his wife, Rosemary, and his youngest daughter.
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- Embry, who is based in Nashville, Tennessee, said friend
and onetime country music star Mickey Gilley, a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis,
got on the phone with him at one point on Sunday and "tried to beg
(Domino) to leave."
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- Domino lives in New Orleans' 9th Ward, which Embry said
was believed to be underwater.
- Embry said he had received reports that Domino "might
have been picked up on Tuesday night" and that he had been seen trying
to flag down a passing boat near his house, but none of those accounts
could be confirmed.
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- The Fox News.com Web site reported that another Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter from New Orleans, Allen Toussaint,
67, was among more than 20,000 refugees at the New Orleans Superdome.
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