New Orleans All Stars - Everest Records

New Orleans All Stars

1973 Everest Records FS-257 Stereo

Side One
1. South Rampart Street Parade
2. Sensation Rag
3. Sunset In Paradise
4. In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree

Side Two
1. Bayou Blues
2. Jazz Me Blues
3. Bugle Call Rag
4. Saint James Infirmary
5. When The Saints Go Marching In

Liner Notes:

Pete Fountain is a product of New Orleans, the home of dixieland jazz. His dad played with various bands around Biloxi, Mississippi during Pete's childhood.

Pete started playing the clarinet with his school hand in 1942, then into the Junior Dixieland Jazz Band. He spent some time with Phil Zito, this was in 1949, with the Basin Street Six, 1950 through 1954; then his own group, "Pete Fountain and his Three Coins". Heard mostly in New Orleans, he did make trips to Chicago, for club dates, then to California, where he joined the Lawrence Welk organization for two years and headed up a dixieland group within the orchestra.

These sides show Pete at his peak, in 1957. Listen and see if you don't agree.

Pete Fountain Volume II - Everest Records

Pete Fountain Volume II

1974 Everest Records, FS-303 Stereo

Side One
1. High Society
2. That's A Plenty
3. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
4. Margie

Side Two
1. Up A Lazy River
2. Mahogany Hall Stomp
3. I'm Goin' Home
4. Farewell Blues

Liner Notes:

It's funny how words come to have different meanings. For example, when you're a kid, licorice means Iong, chewy, black candy. When you grow up, licorice means low, moaning, mellow clarinet music. And if you're a fan of really good clarinet music, licorice means Pete Fountain.

Pete Fountain.

There's an effortless quality to the way Pete licks his licorice stick. Folks got to like it back when he stood out in the Lawrence Welk crowd and they continued to like it, to love it, when Pete started making records.

The tunes on this album are comfortable ditties that are either from the twenties or sound as if they should be. They have that lazy, zesty feel that music had when jazz was just getting started, when musicians were just beginning to dandle songs on their instruments as if they were babies on their knees.

The jazz babies here include "Margie," "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise," "I'm Going Home," "Farewell Blues" and the album title tune, "High Society."
Pete Fountain lifts that licorice to his lips and lets these sweet, sweet melodies float through the air with the greatest of ease.
Why not catch them?

Additional Notes About Everest Records

There is currently an enormous amount of material on the market for which artists in the past were not compensated. Such material may be in the form of outright bootlegs manufactured without the artists' knowledge or approval, or material for which record makers, without explanation, simply refuse to pay agreed royalties.

Everest Records was one of the those companies that fell into this area. They had releases from Ray Charles to Charles Mingus to Jimi Hendrix, all not authorized by the artists. There were many Everest Record Companys over the years. This company was from Los Angeles, CA, not the 1950s Everest Records of Bayside, Long Island or the current Everestrecords.ch. Any addtional information about Everest is welcome.