Pete Fountain
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Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr., known professionally as Pete Fountain, was an American jazz clarinetist.
Fountain in 1962
Fountain at JazzFest, 2006
The Lawrence Welk Show
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The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The series aired locally in Los Angeles for four years, from 1951 to 1955, then nationally
Pete Fountain
…Welk orchestra in Los Angeles, where he relocated and lived for two years. Fountain became well known for his many solos on Welk's ABC television show, The Lawrence Welk Show. He was rumored to have quit when Welk refused to let him "jazz up" a Christmas carol on the 1958 Christmas show. Other accounts, including one in…
Opening of The Lawrence Welk Show
Alice Lon and Lawrence Welk.
Norma Zimmer and Welk.