I recently bought a huge lot of 30,000 random 45s from a record dealer in LA. It's been a lot of hours of work to sort through everything! But I wanted to share a few interesting Herb Alpert related singles I pulled out of there.
Starting At The Top Left:
1) Of course there were a couple early copies of The Lonely Bull... those aren't too scarce.
2) A little rarer is the TJB's second single on the early style label, "Marching Through Madrid/Struttin' With Maria.
3) The elusive non-LP "Mexican Drummer Man". I've had a promo copy for a few years. This is the first stock copy I've seen.
4) This is just odder than odd. The "Melrose Elementary School Band" doesn't sound like an elementary school band. It sounds like a group of professional musicians playing wrong notes on purpose. And I would bet money that is the unmistakable sound of Herb's trumpet playing on "The Pupil"- once again, played poorly on purpose. But really, this single is not good, I don't get the point here, and I don't understand why it got put out.
5) An oddball Bill Dana single. I recall Herb recently writing a very nice eulogy for him over facebook.
IMG_3339 by [email protected], on Flickr
Starting At The Top Left:
1) Of course there were a couple early copies of The Lonely Bull... those aren't too scarce.
2) A little rarer is the TJB's second single on the early style label, "Marching Through Madrid/Struttin' With Maria.
3) The elusive non-LP "Mexican Drummer Man". I've had a promo copy for a few years. This is the first stock copy I've seen.
4) This is just odder than odd. The "Melrose Elementary School Band" doesn't sound like an elementary school band. It sounds like a group of professional musicians playing wrong notes on purpose. And I would bet money that is the unmistakable sound of Herb's trumpet playing on "The Pupil"- once again, played poorly on purpose. But really, this single is not good, I don't get the point here, and I don't understand why it got put out.
5) An oddball Bill Dana single. I recall Herb recently writing a very nice eulogy for him over facebook.
IMG_3339 by [email protected], on Flickr