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Pete Fountain

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Aliases
Pete Fountain & His Jazz Band
Pete Fountain & The New Orleans All Stars
Real name
Pierre Dewey LaFontaine, Jr.
Born
July 30, 1930
Died
August 6, 2016
Country
United States
Comments
New Orleans style jazz clarinet player born in New Orleans, who also recorded popular music
Member of
Basin Street Six (1950-1954)
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1962 W. Arlington
i February 1959 (unknown)
i February 1963 Campbell and Burr
i 1960 Campbell and Burr
i 1960 Campbell and Burr
i 1968 Katherine Perry
i 1960 Margaret Simms & Paul Bass
i   1960 Emma Carus PRF, Collins and Harlan REC
i 1968 Cilla Black
i May 1961 George Greeley - His Piano and Orchestra
i 1962 Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Vocal Chorus by Eva Taylor
i 1960 Spanish Dance Orchestra
i 1969 Petula Clark
i 1960 Sousa's Band
i 1962 Ziggy Elman & His Orchestra
i 1962 Herb Jeffries with Buddy Baker and His Orchestra
March 18, 1968 Ethel Merman
i   1961 Evelyn Hoey PRF, Marion Chase REL
i 1967 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
i   1966 Billy Dee Williams PRF, Bobby Scott REC,REL
i 1959 Tim Brymn's Black Devil Four
i   1961 Yves Montand BRD, Cora Vaucaire - Au piano : M. Philippe-Gérard REL
i 1960 Emilio De Marchi
i 1962 Prince's Band
i February 1959 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
March 18, 1968 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
i 1963 (unknown)
i 1959 Prince's Band
i   1960 Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Reid REC,REL, June Knight PRF
i 1961 Irving Abrams & His Orchestra
November 1966 Doye O'Dell
i August 1966 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen)
i 1960 Benny Carter and His Orchestra
i August 1966 Toots Thielemans
i   February 1963 Belle Baker PRF, Imperial Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Arthur Fields REC
i 1966 Matt Monro - Arranged and conducted by John Barry
i 1964 Ted Daffan's Texans
i 1970 Judy Collins
i 1963 George Lewis and His New Orleans All Stars featuring Paul Barbarin
i   1963 Marie Louise Dustmann-Meyer and Clara Schumann PRF, Laura Hilgermann REL
i 1962 Friars Society Orchestra
i 1961 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Arthur Hall
March 18, 1968 Jill Haworth
i 1969 The Marketts
i 1966 Petula Clark
i 1969 Frankie Valli
March 18, 1968 Frankie Valli
i July 1963 (unknown)
i   1967 Skitch Henderson, His Piano and His Orchestra REL, Gil Bernal BRD
i 1967 Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass
i 1966 Vince Guaraldi Trio
i 1961 Lilo and Peter Cookson
i   1961 Jacques Hélian & son orchestre - Chant Jean Marco REC, Suzy Delair PRF
i 1961 The Bar Harbor Society Orchestra (Ben Selvin)
i 1960 Arnold Johnson and His Orchestra
i 1962 Douglas Richardson
November 1966 (unknown), Bing Crosby
i 1965 Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy
i October 1968 Original Dixieland Jazz Band
i 1959 Darby and Tarlton
i 1961 Pierre Dudan - Orch. dir. Jacques-Henry Rys
i 1962 Charlie McCoy and Bo Chatman
i 1971 Patsy Cline with The Jordanaires
i 1963 King Oliver's Jazz Band, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i October 1968 Count Basie & His Orchestra
i 1969 Frank Sinatra
i   1958 Jack Barker [US1] PRF, Jacques Renard and His Orchestra REC
i 1967 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
i 1962 Six Brown Brothers
i 1960 Six Brown Brothers
i 1961 (unknown)
i 1969 Countess and All (Angela Lansbury)
i 1981 Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra
i 1960 Maud Powell accompanied by George Falkenstein
i August 1966 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
i 1960 Chick Webb and His Orchestra
i February 1959 Louis Armstrong and His Dixieland Seven
i 1968 The Pied Pipers - With Paul Weston and His Orchestra
i 1969 Vanity Fare
i   1965 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
i 1964 Carmen García Cornejo con piano por Miguel Lerdo de Tejada
i 1956 Friars Society Orchestra
i Five Point Blues Pete Fountain 1959 Unverified
i 1969 Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two
i 1960 Lupita Palomera con la Orq. Hnos Dominguez
i 1960 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
i 1962 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
i   1962 Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys (Ed Kirkeby) REC, Ruth Etting PRF
i 1960 Joe Sullivan [US1]
i 1965 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
i Gotta Travel On Pete Fountain 1965 Unverified
i   1964 The Oscar Peterson Trio REC, Herb Ellis REL
i   1960 María Cervantes PRF, Adolfo Utrera - Nilo Menéndez y E. Lecuona al piano REC
i 1970 Johnny Darrell
i 1962 Stella Mayhew
i   1966 The Raindrops [US] REC, The Summits REL
i   1964 Louis Armstrong and The All Stars REC, Carol Channing and David Hartman PRF
i   1971 Kris Kristofferson REC, Percy Sledge REL
i 1970 The Beatles
i 1962 Clarence Williams' Washboard Band
i 1969 "Standard Band"
i 1962 "Standard Band"
i 1958 Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
i 1969 Neil Diamond
i 1960 Bert Stock and His Orchestra
i 1971 Don Gibson
i 1958 The Piccadilly Players [GB]
i 1960 Ethel Merman
i   1965 Lillian Shade PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
  March 18, 1968 Lillian Shade PRF, Cab Calloway and His Orchestra REC
i 1966 Petula Clark
November 1966 Bing Crosby
i 1961 Johnny Mercer with Freddie Slack and His Orchestra
i   1961 Les Baxter with His Chorus and Orchestra REC,REL, Lilo PRF
i 1964 Floyd Tillman
i 1966 Harry Champion
i 1958 Sam Lanin's Dance Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Billy Jones
i 1961 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
i October 1968 Barbecue Joe and His Hot Dogs (Wingy Manone), Mills Blue Rhythm Band, Edgar Hayes and His Orchestra
i 1962 Irving Gillette (Henry Burr)
i 1970 Zager & Evans
November 1990 Jimmy Boyd accompanied by Norman Luboff
i   1961 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberle REL, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
i 1961 Lew Stone and His Band - Vocal Chorus by Nat Gonella
i 1962 Ray Charles
i   1962 Harry Fay REC, Ted Yorke REL
i 1966 Bing Crosby with Les Paul and His Trio
i 1964 (unknown)
i 1962 Orlando's Orchestra
i   1960 The Dixie Stompers [US1] (Fletcher Henderson) REC, Clarence Williams' Blue Five - Singing Chorus by Eva Taylor REL
i   1966 Virginia Bruce BRD, Frances Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra REC
i 1958 The Peerless Quartet
i   1963 Phyllis Cleveland and Skeets Gallagher PRF, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC
i 1962 Ladd's Black Aces (Original Memphis Five)
i   1968 Ethel Merman & Dick Haymes - Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra and Chorus REL, Ethel Merman and Russell Nype PRF
i 1960 Arthur Fields
i 1965 (unknown), Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
i April 1959 Jack Stillman's Orchestra
i 1956 Original Dixieland Jazz Band
i 1956 Lucille Hegamin accompanied by Harris' Blues and Jazz Seven
i 1960 Lucille Hegamin accompanied by Harris' Blues and Jazz Seven
i 1962 Lucille Hegamin accompanied by Harris' Blues and Jazz Seven
i 1969 The Suntones
November 1966 Bobby Helms
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho Pete Fountain 1962 Unverified
i 1971 Nelstone's Hawaiians
i 1981 Red McKenzie & His Orchestra
i   February 1963 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
i 1966 Roger Miller [US-OK]
i 1967 Jack Jones
i 1969 The Turtles
i 1958 Edith Piaf
i 1961 Edith Piaf
i 1961 Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Walter Hunt
i February 1959 Hoagy Carmichael and His Orchestra
i 1969 John Denver
i December 1968 Engelbert Humperdinck
i 1970 Gilbert Bécaud
November 1966 Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Vaughn Monroe and The Norton Sisters
i 1960 (unknown), Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
listen on Internet Archive i 1962 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
i 1960 Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan
i 1960 Joe Sullivan [US1]
i 1960 (unknown)
i 1959 Gene Austin
i 1966 Richard Berry and The Pharaohs
i 1967 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
i Love for Love Pete Fountain 1967 Unverified
i 1993 Jeanette MacDonald
i   1981 Jan Garber and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Russ Brown REC, Kenny Baker [US1] BRD
i   1960 Harald Paulsen mit Orchesterbegleitung REL, Kurt Gerron PRF
i 1969 Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five
i 1969 Will-O-Bees
i   1963 Eddie Cantor REC,REL,PRF
i 1966 Charles Braswell and All
i   1961 Sterling Holloway - June Cochran PRF, The Knickerbockers [Ben Selvin] REC
i 1969 Rega Dance Orchestra (Fred Hager)
i 1964 Hermanos Castilla
i 1960 Jack Smith (The Whispering Baritone) with Piano
i 1966 Isaura Garcia
i February 1963 Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Bob Eberle REL, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC, (unknown)
i   1965 Ethel Waters REC, Minto Cato PRF
i 1969 John Barry
i Mighty Like the Blues Pete Fountain 1962 Unverified
i 1962 New Orleans Rhythm Kings
i   1968 Leonard Nimoy REL, Lalo Schifrin BRD
i 1961 Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys
i 1970 Erroll Garner Trio
i August 1966 The Jungle Band [Duke Ellington]
March 18, 1968 The Jungle Band [Duke Ellington]
i   1963 Joe Venuti and His Orchestra REC,REL, Valaida & Dee Lloyd McKaye PRF
i 1961 Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra - Vocal by Margaret Whiting
i 1981 Riz Ortolani e Nino Oliviero
i   1967 Al (He's the King) Hirt REL, [Unknown Studio Artists] BRD
i 1965 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
i 1962 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
i   1958 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
i   1966 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
i 1959 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra
i 1961 Mistinguett
i   1960 Walter Scanlan (Walter Van Brunt) REC,REL, William Frawley PRF
i 1969 Sonny Land Trio
i 1961 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jimmy Rushing
i 1968 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jimmy Rushing
  March 18, 1968 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Fred Astaire REC, Fred Astaire PRF
i 1971 Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys
i 1960 Tuskegee Institute Singers
i 1961 Dan W. Quinn
i   1964 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
i   1960 Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC, Walter Catlett PRF
i   February 1959 Jules Bledsoe PRF, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
i   1958 Isham Jones Orchestra REL, Emil Coleman & His Montmartre Orchestra REC
i 1969 Vic Damone
i   1965 John Michael King REL,PRF
i   February 1963 Harry Richman PRF, Ted Lewis and His Band REC
i 1968 Smith Ballew & His Orchestra
i July 1963 (unknown)
i 1962 Friar's Society Orchestra
i 1960 Sidney Bechet - Claude Luter et son orchestre
i 1960 Elizabeth Spencer
i July 1963 Haydn Quartet
i 1969 B.J. Thomas
i 1963 Hoagy Carmichael
i 1971 Billy Joe Royal
i 1981 Earl Hines and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Walter Fuller
i 1961 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
i November 1966 Harry Reser and His Orchestra, Edison Male Quartette
i 1981 Frankie Masters and His Orchestra
i 1962 Original Dixieland Jazz Band
i 1961 Les Brown and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Doris Day
i 1969 Matty Malneck and His Orchestra
i   1960 California Ramblers REC, Aida Overton Walker PRF
i 1961 Jo Stafford with Paul Weston & His Orchestra and The Norman Luboff Choir
  November 1966 Bing Crosby and Carol Richards REL, Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell REC
Sing You Sinners Pete Fountain 1962 Unverified
i 1970 Otis Redding
i August 1966 Woody Herman and His Orchestra
i 1960 Alberta Hunter and Ray's Dreamland Orchestra
i 1970 The Beatles
i 1967 Carson and Gaile
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Pete Fountain 1962 Unverified
i 1960 The Six Hottentots - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman
i 1962 Douglas Richardson
i 1993 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i 1968 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
i October 1968 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra
i 1962 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra
i 1967 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra
i 1966 Ben E. King - Arr. & Cond. by Stan Applebaum
i 1993 (unknown), (unknown)
i 1959 Prince's Band
i February 1963 Mr. Acker Bilk with The Leon Young String Chorale
i 1966 Bert Kaempfert
i 1956 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
i 1962 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
i 1965 Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
i   1958 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i   1961 Helen Jepson REL, Abbie Mitchell PRF, Abbie Mitchell under the direction of George Gershwin REC
i 1970 Mieko Hirota - Billy Taylor Trio
i 1961 Len Spencer
i   February 1959 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians REL, Abe Lyman's California Orchestra REC
i 1960 Charley Straight and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by Frank Sylvano
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Pete Fountain 1962 Unverified
i   1960 Adele Astaire & Allen Kearns PRF, Frank Crumit REC,REL
i Talk Pete Fountain 1967 Unverified
i 1962 Ray Charles with Orchestra & Chorus
i 1961 Anna Meyers and Original Memphis Five
i 1958 Virginia Verrill
i 1964 Prince's Band
i 1960 Prince's Band
March 18, 1968 Simon and Garfunkel
  November 1966 Nat "King" Cole [Trio] REC, The King Cole Trio with String Choir REL
i 1964 Glenn Yarbrough
i 1970 Richard Kiley
i 1966 Dobie Gray
November 1966 The Trapp Family Singers
i   August 1966 George Gershwin - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra REL, George Gershwin - Paul Whiteman and The Palais Royal Orchestra PRF
i 1959 Victor Military Band
i   1966 Harry James and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Buddy Di Vito REC, Dick Haymes BRD, Dick Haymes with Orchestra under direction of Victor Young REL
i 1981 Isham Jones Orchestra
i 1964 Horace Silver Quintet
March 18, 1968 The New Vaudeville Band
i July 1963 Paul Barbarin and His New Orleans Jazz Band
i 1966 Johnny Mandel
i 1964 Joseph Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra
i 1961 (unknown)
i   1965 Percy Faith and His Orchestra REC, Mary Martin PRF
i 1970 Blood, Sweat & Tears
i August 1965 The Whiffenpoofs
The Whiffenpoof Song (Baa Baa Baa) Pete Fountain 1965 Unverified
i 1969 Edward Allen
i 1970 Richard Chamberlain - Cond. by Burt Bacharach
i 1967 Eric James Orchestra
i 1967 Julie Andrews
i 1969 Alexander Vertinsky
i 1958 Original Dixieland Jass Band
i 1960 Original Dixieland Jass Band
i February 1959 New Orleans Rhythm Kings
i 1964 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra
i 1970 Classics IV
i 1961 Miss Joséphine Baker et M. Adrien Lamy
i 1959 Isham Jones Orchestra
i 1971 Ernest Tubb
i 1959 Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra
i August 1966 Hitch's Happy Harmonists under direction & accompanied by Hoagy Carmichael
i July 1963 (unknown)
i February 1959 Margaret Young
i   1970 Roger Nichols and Paul Williams REC, Paul Williams [US1] BRD, Freddie Allen REL
i   1964 Edith Wilson PRF, Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra REC,REL
i 1970 Melanie
i   1981 Grace Moore & John Steel PRF, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC
i 1968 Bob Crosby and His Orchestra featuring Trumpet by Billy Butterfield
i   1962 Chick Bullock and His Levee Loungers REL, Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Muzzy Marcellino REC, Mildred Bailey PRF
i February 1959 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra
i 1958 Ted Lewis Jazz Band
i 1960 Ted Lewis Jazz Band
i 1965 Wolverine Orch. – Vocal Chorus Dave Harman
i 1962 (unknown)
i 1962 Henry Thies and His Hotel Sinton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Don Dewey
i February 1959 (unknown)
i February 1965 The Stokes
  November 1966 Bing Crosby & Marjorie Reynolds [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC,REL
i 1969 Glen Campbell - Conducted by Al De Lory
i Wiederseh'n Pete Fountain 1967 Unverified
  March 18, 1968 The Association REL, Ruthann Friedman REC
November 1966 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Joey Nash
i 1968 The Beatles
i 1993 New Orleans Rhythm Kings
i 1962 Arthur Collins
i 1960 Woody Herman and His Orchestra
December 1961 Bing Crosby & Connie Boswell with Bob Crosby's Bob Cats
i 1966 The Beatles
i   1981 Fay Templeton PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC,REL
i 1965 The Pine Ridge Boys
i   1960 Maurice Chevalier BRD, Ed. Loyd and His Orchestra (Ed Kirkeby) REC
i 1981 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
i August 1966 Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys
i   August 1966 Nat "King" Cole REC, Russ Morgan and His Orchestra REL

Releases

Albums

Title Performer Release date Label
A Taste of Honey Pete Fountain 1966 Coral
Both Sides Now Pete Fountain 1970 Coral
"Candy Clarinet" - Merry Christmas from Pete Fountain Pete Fountain November 1966 Coral
Dixieland Pete Fountain and Other All Star Dixielanders 1962 RCA Camden
For the First Time Brenda and Pete March 18, 1968 Decca
High Society Pete Fountain 1969 Pickwick/33 Records
I Love Paris Pete Fountain 1961 Coral
I've Got You Under My Skin Pete Fountain 1966 Coral
Lawrence Welk Presents Pete Fountain Lawrence Welk - Pete Fountain 1958 Coral
Let the Good Times Roll Pete Fountain with the Jubilee Singers 1962 Coral
Licorice Stick Pete Fountain 1964 Coral
Make Your Own Kind of Music Pete Fountain 1969 Coral
Mood Indigo Pete Fountain August 1966 Coral
Mr. New Orleans Meets Mr. Honky Tonk Pete Fountain and "Big" Tiny Little 1960 Coral
Mr. Stick Man Pete Fountain 1965 Coral
Music to Turn You On Pete Fountain 1967 Coral
New Orleans, Tennessee Pete Fountain 1971 Coral
New Orleans to Los Angeles Pete Fountain 1956 Southland Records [US1]
On Tour Pete Fountain 1961 Coral
Pete Fountain and Friends Pete Fountain and Friends 1981 Capitol Records
Pete Fountain at Piper's Opera House Pete Fountain 1993 Jazzology
Pete Fountain at the Bateau Lounge Pete Fountain and His Jazz Group! 1960 Coral
Pete Fountain Day Pete Fountain 1960 Coral
Pete Fountain Plays Bert Kaempfert Pete Fountain 1967 Coral
Pete Fountain Salutes the Great Clarinetists Pete Fountain 1960 Coral
Pete Fountain's French Quarter Pete Fountain 1961 Coral
Pete Fountain's Music from Dixie Pete Fountain 1962 Coral
Pete Fountain's New Orleans Pete Fountain February 1959 Coral
Pete Fountain's New Orleans at Midnight Pete Fountain 1963 Coral
Pete Fountain & The New Orleans All Stars Pete Fountain & The New Orleans All Stars 1962 Design Records
Pete's Place Pete Fountain 1964 Coral
Plenty of Pete Pete Fountain February 1963 Coral
Something / Misty Pete Fountain 1970 Coral
South Rampart Street Parade Pete Fountain and His Mardi Gras Strutters July 1963 Coral
Standing Room Only Pete Fountain and His Guest Stars 1965 Coral
The Blues Pete Fountain 1959 Coral
The New Orleans Scene Pete Fountain and Al Hirt 1962 Coral
Those Were the Days Pete Fountain 1969 Coral
Walking Through New Orleans Pete Fountain October 1968 Coral
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans Pete Fountain 1981 Capitol Records
With a Little Help from My Friend Eddie Miller and Pete Fountain 1968 Coral

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