Pete Fountain
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A short summary from Wiki: (More Wiki info here: WIKI – PETE FOUNTAIN)
Pete Fountain (born Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr., July 3, 1930), is an American, New Orleans based clarinetist. Fountain was born in New Orleans and started playing clarinet, heavily influenced first by Benny Goodman and then by Irving Fazola. Early on he played with the bands of Monk Hazel and Al Hirt. With his long time friend, trumpeter George Girard, Fountain founded The Basin Street Six in 1950.
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What Pete Fountain music I have in my cassette collection.
Pete Fountain’s New Orleans
1 While We Danced At The Mardi Gras
1 A Closer Walk
1 When The Saints Come Marching In March
1 When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
1 Ol’ Man River
1 Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
2 Sweethearts On Parade
2 Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
2 Basin Street Blues
2 Lazy River
2 Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
2 Tin Roof Blues
Basin Street Blues
1 Basin Street Blues
1 Careless Love
1 Farewell Blues
1 Over The Waves
2 Sugar Bowl Parade
2 Kazz Me Blues
2 Columbus Stockade Blues
2 Stranger On the Shore
