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Pete Fountain: July 3, 1930 – August 6, 2016
I thought sure he would already be listed here. Aside from the above tune from a Christmas album that has never been released in the digital age (or has it?), Fountain has another Christmas connection.
Fountain was a clarinetist in the late Fifties in Lawrence Welk's Orchestra. In his autobiography, He says that he was fired by Welk after jazzing up the song "Silver Bells" on the clarinet on a 1958 television Christmas special.
There is some discrepancy to the firing claim and another story goes that Fountain wanted to jazz up the Orchestra to which Welk said no. So, Fountain simply quit.
Either way, Fountain, who was born and raised in New Orleans, is quoted as saying "Bourbon and champagne don't mix." (Some of you will get the references.)
I thought sure he would already be listed here. Aside from the above tune from a Christmas album that has never been released in the digital age (or has it?), Fountain has another Christmas connection.
Fountain was a clarinetist in the late Fifties in Lawrence Welk's Orchestra. In his autobiography, He says that he was fired by Welk after jazzing up the song "Silver Bells" on the clarinet on a 1958 television Christmas special.
There is some discrepancy to the firing claim and another story goes that Fountain wanted to jazz up the Orchestra to which Welk said no. So, Fountain simply quit.
Either way, Fountain, who was born and raised in New Orleans, is quoted as saying "Bourbon and champagne don't mix." (Some of you will get the references.)
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