CD Listing:
1. Basin Street Blues
2. Honky Tonk
3. Tin Roof Blues
4. Georgia
5. Amazing Grace
6. It Had To Be You
7. Closer Walk With Thee
8. Up A Lazy River
9. Deep Purple
Liner Notes:
Distrubuted by Ranwood Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Compilation Produced By Bonnie Pritchard
1997 Ranwood Records 8265-2
A Universal Music Special Markets MSD 37085
CD Listing:
1. I Got Rhythm
2. Those Were The Days
3. You Are My Sunshine
4. Shrimp Boats
5. Me And My Shadow
6. Blue Skies
7. Chicago
8. Mack The Knife
9. In The Mood
10. My Blue Heaven
11. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smile At You)
12. Makin' Whoopee
Liner Notes:
Out Of print and becoming hard to find, grab this if you see it. Pete Fountain, takes us on a relaxing session with this compilation as he performs a few classic numbers. If you have always associated Pete Fountain as that great clarinetist playing dixieland, I Got Rythm, will pleasantly surprise you.
This is Pete Fountain with a full orchestra. It's Pete expressing his music in a new way. His clarinet is smooth with his signature high notes and rich low tones. Great for your dinner party background music or a relaxing drive in the country.
CD One
01. Way Down Yonder In Ne Orleans
02. Alice Blue Gown
03. Up A Lazy River
04. Muskrat Ramble
05. Amazing Grace
06. San Antonio Rose
07. Cheek To Cheek
08. It Had To Be You
09. Basin Street Blues
10. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
11. I Can't Believe You're Still In Love With Me
12. Deep Purple
13. Georgia
14. Walking The Floor Over You
15. Honky Tonk
CD Two
01. Jazz Me Blues
02. Marie
03. Crazy
04. Running Wild
05. Paradise
06. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
07. Unforgettable
08. Wolverine Blues
09. Girl Of My Dreams
10. Rose Room
11. I Can't Stop Loving You
12. Tin Roof Blues
13. Your Cheatin' Heart
14. Nobody's Darlin'
15. When The Saints Come Marching In
Liner Notes:
Two CD best of collection, out-of-print, getting harder to find. Total of 30 tracks. There is a Dixieland Classics, Vol. 1 released a year later in 1999 with the same cover artwork, but only has the first disc. Ranwood never released a Dixieland Classics, Vol. 2.
CD Listing
1. Cheek To Cheek
2. Smoke Rings
3. Girl Of My Dreams
4. Sweet And Lovely
5. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
6. Unforgettable
7. Paradise
8. 'deed I Do
9. Rose Room
10. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
11. I Can't Believe That You're Still In Love With Me
12. Nobody's Darlin'
Liner Notes:
Musicians:
Pete Fountain, clarinet
Owen Bradley, piano
Buddy Harman, drums
Jim Ferguson, bass
Gary L. Miller, trombone
Chris McDonald, trombone
Chris Dunn, trombone
Tom Lundberg, trombone
Barry Green, trombone
Ernie Collins, bass trombone
This album is dedicated "To my wife Beverly for putting up with me for 43 years" Pete
1993 Ranwood Records, A Welk Music Group Compony
Produced by Owen Bradley
The musical path Pete has chosen for Cheek To Cheek veers away from jazz and into a world of pure and perfect romance. The songs are classics. Yet Pete embraces each one as though it has never been played before. The result is as smooth and dreamy as a summer night. Set against the mellow, low end sound of five trombones, the quality of Pete's clarinet becomes enticingly beautiful. Never before has his haunting sound so elegantly explored the secret of implicity. Each rich note slides effortlessly into your heart. And into your feet. Because as Pete says, "This is music for dancing. You know, the good kind. Close dancing."
Recorded at Bradley's Barn, Mt. Juliet, TN
1980 - Ranwood Records 8149-2
CD Listing
1. China Boy
2. Sweethearts On Parade
3. Blue Moods
4. Should I
5. Pete's Tail-Fly
6. San Antonio Rose
7. Barnyard Blues
8. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
9. 's Wonderful
10. Tea 'n Trumpets
11. Thou Swell
12. Strike Up The Band
Liner Notes:
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. They were veteran trumpet-man Al Hirt; a fourteen-year-old phenomenon on trumpet, Warren Luning, Jr.; and another veteran from the New Orleans jazz scene, clarinetist Pete Fountain. Among those in the audience that proceeded to flip over the playing of the New Orleans visitors was young Lawrence Welk, Jr. Forthwith he goes to the old man and says, "Dad, this you've gotta hear!" (Or words of similar import.) So Larry, Sr. 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. 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?
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. He is almost twenty-eight years old.
Although it is essentially the Welk Orchestra backing Pete in this album, the arrangements are not of the "Champagne Music" style. Neither is it a jazz album. Rather it is designed for dancing, with an easily identifiable beat, and tempos well-suited for dancing.
Two years later he returned to jazz and New Orleans. 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.
CD Listing
01. I Love You So Much It Hurts
02. Maria Elena
03. Born to Lose
04. Your Cheatin' Heart
05. Green, Green, Grass of Home
06. Help Me Make It Through the Night
07. San Antonio Rose
08. Rose Garden
09. Crazy
10. I Can't Stop Loving You
11. Walking the Floor Over You
12. Sunday in the Country
1995 Ranwood Records MSD 35808
CD Song Listing
01. La Vie En Rose
02. Autumn Leaves
03. I Love Paris
04. Two Loves Have I
05. Comme Ci, Comme Ca
06. April In Paris
07. Tout De Suite (Right Now)
08. C'est Si Bon
09. C'est Magnifique
10. Miss Lucy
11. My Man (Mon Homme)
12. Mood Indigo
13. The Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart)
14. Your Cheatin' Heart
15. Fa So Blues
16. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
17. Frere Jazz
18. Rhapsody In Blue
Liner Notes:
The Jordanaires - Performer
Pete Fountain - Clarinet
Pete Fountain - Main Performer
Bonnie Pritchard - Producer
Pete Fountain, takes us on a relaxing sesion with this release as he performs a few classic Big Band numbers. If you have always associated Pete Fountain as that great clarinetist playing dixieland, A Touch Of Class, will pleasantly surprise you.
This is Pete Fountain with a full orchestra. It's Pete expressing his music in a new way. His clarinet is smooth with his signature high notes and rich low tones. Great for your dinner party background music or a relaxing drive in the country.
