Looked up A Taste Of Honey and Popcorn. Popcorn - the links I found - is not the version of Popcorn I remember hearing in 1977 whilst waiting for Star Wars to begin. Still, distinct.
There is something to me that is incredibly tragic about hearing these. Extremely enjoyable yet tragic. Strange. Strange to say such when I enjoyed Star Wars so much... it is a sense that childhood ends, perhaps. Something wistful for that wonder and excitement. All good and great things must end.
That's my best guess about what I feel when I hear these.
There is something to me that is incredibly tragic about hearing these. Extremely enjoyable yet tragic. Strange. Strange to say such when I enjoyed Star Wars so much... it is a sense that childhood ends, perhaps. Something wistful for that wonder and excitement. All good and great things must end.
That's my best guess about what I feel when I hear these.
Really takes you back to Randolph Street, doesn't it?
As for Herb Alpert, my grandparents owned the famous Whipped Cream and Other Delights LP--I believe it, along with Mancini's Breakfast at Tiffany's album were issued to seemingly every middle-class suburban family.
Anyway, my primary memory of Herb Alpert would have been "Rise", which was a #1 US pop hit in 1979. I consider it the "last" #1 hit of the 1970s, because "Pop Musik" by M, which replaced "Rise" as #1, reflected the changing landscape.
Most GenXers don't know Alpert's "Rise", not even when the song starts, but the moment the horn kicks in at the 0:47 mark, they are transported to wherever they were in 1979 when the song played on the radio.
Of course I listened to it. I especially enjoyed the Alpert soundalike stuff alongside the vintage visuals.
I just figured this would be yet another abandoned thread, and that you really didn't want any replies. Warlok's reminiscence was interesting to me, not that anyone responded to my post. I like to give a more than a perfunctory reply.
Wasn't there a thread a while back (probably by OnyaBirri) about all of the faux Tijuana Brass groups there were in the mid-1960s? Based on the first post, you can add a more recent one to the list.
Of course I listened to it. I especially enjoyed the Alpert soundalike stuff alongside the vintage visuals.
I just figured this would be yet another abandoned thread, and that you really didn't want any replies. Warlok's reminiscence was interesting to me, not that anyone responded to my post. I like to give a more than a perfunctory reply.
OK, so I shouldn't have said "no one." I should have said "noone."
I don't like everything Alpert did, but that's true pertaining to any artist.
Herb Alpert and Glenn Miller would have been an interesting combination, I think. I think they may have been cut from the same entertainment & musical cloth.
Most GenXers don't know Alpert's "Rise", not even when the song starts, but the moment the horn kicks in at the 0:47 mark, they are transported to wherever they were in 1979 when the song played on the radio.
I played "Rise" for two of my colleagues from work. One claimed he'd never heard it. That is, until the horn starts at the 0:47 mark. He then went on to talk about his numerous contemporaneous memories of living in NYC at the time.
Another colleague recounted a single story of some girl he was in love with at the time, and that "Rise" was what was playing over the sound system at his school dance when he first met her. This guy went bonkers and bought the song straight away. He'd never known who performed "Rise" or that it was even called that.
Ah, the power of music to evoke memories (both good and bad).
In a blindfold test for Miles Davis, they played an uncharacteristic Herb Alpert track, and Miles recognized Herb's playing instantly. He praised Alpert's tone.
I've mentioned before that the jazz legends are often the best at identifying who's playing. Miles, Coltrane, and Bill Evans were usually spot on in their Downbeat Blindfold Tests. They must listen to everything.
Herb Alpert did pretty well on the pop charts over the years. He must have been a household name in the '60s.
Oh, he went well beyond household-name status: Everyone knew him, and everyone had his records, at least one. And he had crossover appeal between generations. He and Burt Bacharach were the soundtrack of the 60s.
