This talk about Alpert and the like reminds me once again how much I am drawn to aspects of decades that the collective pop culture memory chooses to forget, or diminishes to irrelevance. Second-hand record shops and yard sales are the real windows into the past.
This talk about Alpert and the like reminds me once again how much I am drawn to aspects of decades that the collective pop culture memory chooses to forget, or diminishes to irrelevance. Second-hand record shops and yard sales are the real windows into the past.
Yes, you can learn more about a culture from its trash than you can from its "art." Not that I'm calling Herb "trash," but people tend to contextualize the past in ways that are convenient to support their respective views. The mass popularity of Herb Alpert provides a window in the 1960s that avoids simple-minded stereotypes of the counterculture. The characters in "Point Blank" probably had Herb Alpert records, although Lee Marvin had the "M Squad" soundtrack.
I've Bookmarked that Alpert-style version of the OP theme... I dislike the original, but taking a band approach and replacing the vocalist's wailings with horn/trumpet is excellent. Have listened to it much these last few days.
