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An oil portrait of Fountain painted by friend Garland Robinette is the centerpiece of the living room, which also includes a grand piano. Framed pictures of children and grandchildren are prominent atop the piano, and throughout the house are pictues of Johnny Carson, Phil Harris and other celebrities Fountain has met during his long and well-publicized career.
The living room opens up onto a wide porch that spans the length of the home.
?I love to come out here. It?s so peaceful and beautiful. You forget any cares you might have. I can sit for hours on the porch,? says Fountain.
He proudly points to a windmill anchored on the front lawn.
?That was given to me by Phil Harris and (wife) Alice Faye,? says Fountain. ?It?s a windmill.
It makes wind.?
? Upstairs bedrooms are furnished with antique beds' and other pieces.bought from the Melrose Plantation on River Road, and Fountain credits his wife for cultivating his appreciation of fine furniture.
On the- third level is what
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Two bedrooms are situated off each side of a large living room with loft windows that provides a panoramic view of the Bay.
The Fountain clan now consists of daughter Darah Fountain Harrell and her husband, Benny, who has been Fountain?s manager for 22 years. They have three grown children, Gregory and Evan, and daughter, Daniel.
Kevin Fountain handles his father?s nightclub and all that entails. He is married to the former Jane Pitcher and they have two young girls, Victoria and Hillary, and another one the way.
?When they first got married, Jane caught hell at the club for that. She was a Pitcher married to a Fountain--Pitcher-Fountain,? he quipped.
Single son Jeff works with Harrell in Pete Fountain Pro- ,, ductions, which arranges special events and tours for conventions coming to town.
Fountain seemed a bit disappointed none of his children shared his musical italent.:i,
?They all took up some kind of instrument for a while-the two boys tried the clarinet, and 1 think Darah tried the guitar and trombone. But they thought they could learn to play the thing in t wo week.^ and gave >.?
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could hardly get a note out of it,?.., said Fountain.
At nine years old, the fledgling musician began hanging out on the stoops of the Top Hat Club, not far away from his home off Broad Street, soaking up the sounds of New Orleans jazz.
By 16, Fountain had dropped out of Warren Eastern High School, and began gaining a reputation at the jazz clubs lining world-famous Bourbon Street.
He moved on to play in the Junior Dixieland Band in the Parisian Room, then with Phil Zito, then the International Dixieland Express at the El Mor-acco Club or. Bourbon.
He appeared more than 59 ''times''on the Johnny Carson Showfwas featured on the old Ed Sullivan show, and performed in specials with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and others. He has played with other legends like Louis Armstrong and Harry James and rising stars the like of Marvin Hamlisch and Harry Connick Jr.
Starting in 1970, Fountain was voted the Number One Jazz Clarinetist in the world 13, years in a row in .Playboy?sJ Reader?s Jazz Poll.
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