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The Best of Pete Fountain | 
 enlarge | Artist: Pete Fountain
Label: Verve
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 16499
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 665
UPC: 011105066525
EAN: 0011105066525
ASIN: B000003N4N
Release Date: May 21, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | While We Danced At The Mardi Gras | | • | A Closer Walk | | • | Columbus Stockade Blues | | • | Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? | | • | Facination Medley: Fascination/Basin Street Blues/Tin Roof Blues/Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | | • | China Boy (Go Sleep) | | • | Bye Bye Bill Bailey | | • | Lazy River | | • | Yes Indeed | | • | High Society | | • | Stranger On The Shore | | • | Over The Waves | | • | Oh, Lady Be Good | | • | You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You | | • | My Blue Heaven | | • | Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet | | • | For Pete's Sake | | • | When The Saints Come Marching In March | | • | St. Louis Blues | | • | When My Baby Smiles At Me | | • | Shrimp Boats | | • | Indiana (Back Home In Indiana) |
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Amazon.com
Though clarinetist Pete Fountain has long been a fixture on the New Orleans jazz scene, his greatest notoriety came from his 1957-1959 nationally televised appearances with the Lawrence Welk orchestra leading a small group playing traditional jazz. Fountain, a Benny Goodman disciple who plays the old standards with indefatigable fervor, is a fixture on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, leading the early morning parade down St. Charles Avenue with his "Half Fast" marching club. As Fountain walks, he plays the numbers on this record that comprise his standard repertoire--"While We Danced at the Mardi Gras," "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans," "Basin Street Blues," "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," "When the Saints Come Marching in March" and "St. Louis Blues." --John Swenson
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
If you love Dixie ... August 11, 2007
Having seen Pete Fountain in concert (before Katrina), I was delighted to see this CD on sale. Was not disappointed! Love the walkin' tempo of "Just A Closer Walk," and the romp of the high energy Dixieland tunes. Will certainly recommend this for lovers of delicious "licorice stick" talent.
A Gift of Old Favorites January 23, 2007
Originally, I bought this for my son who remembers "Stranger on the Shore" from a juke box in his childhood. But when I heard the album, I had to download it before sending it on. What a joy! I play it all the time now. Besides the nostalgia and a superb artist... good quality recording. Excellent!
REALLY the Best May 9, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
First had this as a tape in the early 70s, and it's still my favorite Pete Fountain album.
Fantastic cd November 23, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the cassette version of this album over 20 years ago. I have purchased several other Pete Fountain cd's since. This is by far the best Pete Fountain CD I have found.
The master's best July 25, 2004
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I'm not a jazz afficianado, so I do not know whether there are other clarinetists out there equal to Pete Fountain. I do know that Pete Fountain makes the clarinet sing, talk, grieve, celebrate, exalt, revere, wail, and cry. He takes songs that I know, and moves them to another level.
On this CD (I actually have the audiocasette -- remember those?), the listener gets a good sampler of his best work. "While We Danced at the Mardi Gras" takes one right into the spirit of the festival in New Orleans.
"Closer Walk With Thee" takes a spiritual song and makes it a spiritual experience.
The "Fascination Medley" I like best for the "Fascination" part, which takes one on a soaring ride. I do wish it were not a medley, though, as that spoils the effect for me.
"Yes, Indeed!" makes me want to dance, even though I cannot.
I like the song "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You," which I usually associate with Dean Martin singing it, but Pete Fountain's rendition makes the words superfluous.
"My Blue Heaven" makes me want to sail the Caribbean, for somne reason.
"When the Saints Go Marching In" takes me to a New Orleans street funeral with all of its vacillation between melancholy grief and near-rapturous fervor.
When Pete Fountain plays the clarinet, it is truly a licorice stick to be savored, "Yes, Indeed!"
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