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NEW ORLEANS — Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose Dixieland jazz virtuosity and irrepressible wit endeared him to his native New Orleans and earned him decades of national television fame, died of heart ...
With his ready wit and infectious laugh, Fountain — who often appeared on Lawrence Welk and Johnny Carson's TV shows — was the epitome of the New Orleanian who knew how to "let the good times roll." ...
Pete Fountain, whose rousing performances on clarinet made him a star of Dixieland music, a familiar figure on television and in nightclubs, and one of the most popular musical ambassadors of his ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose Dixieland jazz virtuosity and irrepressible wit endeared him to his native New Orleans and earned him decades of national television fame, died ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Clarinetist Pete Fountain, whose Dixieland jazz virtuosity and irrepressible wit earned him decades of national television fame, died Saturday of heart failure. He was 86. He was ...