Someday Sweetheart - Lawrence Welk Show 1958.Dippermouth Blues - Lawrence Welk Show 1958.I Want A Girl - Lawrence Welk Show 1958.The Lawrence Welk Show Rare and Live Performances.Review - Hollywood Casino Performace, Bay St.Phil Zito and his New Orleans International City D.Christmas Albums Pete Fountain Appears On - MCA Re.Special Salesmen's Souvenir - TNY Records.As he puts it, "champagne and bourbon just don't mix" - but in two years he had become one of the most familiar names in American music, so the time had been well spent, well spent indeed! Two years later he returned to jazz and New Orleans.
He is almost twenty-eight years old.Īlthough it is essentially the Welk Orchestra backing Pete in these performances, the arrangements are not of the "Champagne Music" style. Thus it was that Pete Fountain left Al Hirt's band a few months after their return to New Orleans to accept an offer from Lawrence Welk that was (in Pete's words) "too good to turn down." Since joining the Lawrence Welk Orchestra as a featured soloist, Pete has taken advantage of the opportunity to study on the west coast - an opportunity which the mature Pete Fountain realized was a valuable one in keeping with his desire to grow musically. To wit: why not build a dixieland contingent from the Welk Orchestra around Pete Fountain, and feature him regularly, both at the dance sessions and on the weekly television broadcasts? put down his accordion, turned off the bubble-machine, and made the trip to the auditorium where the jazz bash was being held and that night an idea was born. Forthwith he goes to the old man and says, "Dad, this you've gotta hear!" (Or words of similar import.) So Larry, Sr. Among those in the audience that proceeded to flip over the playing of the New Orleans visitors was young Lawrence Welk, Jr. and another veteran from the New Orleans jazz scene, clarinetist Pete Fountain. They were veteran trumpet-man Al Hirt a fourteen-year-old phenomenon on trumpet, Warren Luning, Jr. It was in the Fall of 1956 that three New Orleans musicians journeyed to the West Coast for the annual Gene Norman-Frank Bull Jazz Festival. Larry Hooper at piano and vocals, Pete Fountain at clarinet (1958)įor the first, these rare and exciting p erformances are now available on compact disc. The Lennon Sisters featuring Pete Fountain (1957) Lawrence`s son, Larry Jr directs the band in a dixieland number, featuring Pete Fountain at the clarinet (1958)įeaturing Pete Fountain on clarinet with Johnny Kline on drums, Buddy Hayes on bass and Big Tiny Little Jr on piano.(1957)įeaturing George Thow, trumpet Pete Fountain, clarinet Russ Klein, tenor sax Jimmy Henderson, trombone Big Tiny Little Jr., piano Buddy Merril, guitar, Buddy Hayes, bass and Johnny Kline, drums. I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad 3:07 Pete Fountain along with Johnny Klein, Buddy Hayes & Tiny Little Jr (1957)Ģ.
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