Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-02-20 05:09
It's a case of authentic local culture versus contrived show business. Miles Davis said of Pete's friend Al Hirt, he was a good trumpet player that the show moguls were, in comic book fashion, "trying to turn into the Jolly Green Giant." Pete told everybody he knew in New Orleans that he was homesick in Los Angeles, and if the only choice had been between strip malls and strip clubs, he would have chosen the latter. Mercifully, he didn't have to choose between the horns of that dilemma, because entering America's living rooms on TV each Saturday night made him famous and financially secure. So he could say good- bye to both strip malls and strip joints.
The recording system on that cornball TV clip does do justice to the smooth, round, creamy sound that Fountain got in his prime--a leaner more centered version of the old Irving Fazola sound, but instantly recognizable as Pete.
Post Edited (2017-02-20 23:19)
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