The Best of Pete Fountain

The Best of Pete Fountain Artist: Pete Fountain
Label: Verve Labels
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 011105066525
EAN: 0011105066525
ASIN: B000003N4N


Release Date: 1996-05-21

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Tracks:

  1. While We Danced At The Mardi Gras
  2. A Closer Walk
  3. Columbus Stockade Blues
  4. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
  5. Facination Medley: Fascination/Basin Street Blues/Tin Roof Blues/Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
  6. China Boy (Go Sleep)
  7. Bye Bye Bill Bailey
  8. Lazy River
  9. Yes Indeed
  10. High Society
  11. Stranger On The Shore
  12. Over The Waves
  13. Oh, Lady Be Good
  14. You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You
  15. My Blue Heaven
  16. Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet
  17. For Pete's Sake
  18. When The Saints Come Marching In March
  19. St. Louis Blues
  20. When My Baby Smiles At Me
  21. Shrimp Boats
  22. Indiana (Back Home In Indiana)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Gift of Old Favorites.......2007-01-23

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!

5 out of 5 stars REALLY the Best.......2006-05-08

First had this as a tape in the early 70s, and it's still my favorite Pete Fountain album.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic cd.......2005-11-23

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.

5 out of 5 stars The master's best.......2004-07-25

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!"

4 out of 5 stars Hey! It's Pete,.......2003-01-01

I had the lp for so long until my [$$$] stylus went kaput but I love the vinyl version over the cd. This cd has some great ambience, a nice drum solo(I just love his back-up on this disk) and the disk was produced well. The price is incredible and you can't miss with this high-class, marching-band ensemble. I don't like medleys which is why I gave this 4 instead of 5 stars.This is a great Sunday morning- brunch time listen.You can crank this up too. Buy this.

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