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Proof lightning does strike twice, A&M treasure found.

Discussion in 'The Beat of The Brass: Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass' started by KentTeffeteller, Jan 30, 2012.

  1. KentTeffeteller Member

    I was crate digging today. In a pile of ex-jukebox 45 singles, I get lucky and find my Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass holy grail. Twice. I score 2 near mint condition Tijuana Taxi/Zorba The Greek A&M original issue 45 singles. $.50 takes them home. They play flawlessly. The other hundred copies I find were trashed through the years. Love the unique mix on Tijuana Taxi.
    KentTeffeteller, Jan 30, 2012
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  2. Rudy Spinning The Wheels Of Steel

    Great find! Mine isn't 100% clean but it is still in decent shape considering. :thumbsup: Did all that compression on those tracks also--this is the only A&M 45 I know of where they really piled on the limiter settings. :D
    Rudy, Jan 31, 2012
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  3. KentTeffeteller Member

    Rudy,

    Took me over 25 years of crate digging, lots of physical struggles with spina bifida, club feet, and dealing with braces, and lots of painful, tiring, searching to find this superb score. Also many miles put on old cars, and hip out of socket. Persistence, luck, the stars aligning right, and A&M legendary mono is found, cleaned, brought home, and plays better than you thought. Worth every effort and labor when the right examples fall into your stack. Don't give up. What you dream of scoring will eventually find it's way home. Take that, Spina Bifida and Clubfeet. I will prevail. I am unbreakable. I don't give up.
    KentTeffeteller, Jan 31, 2012
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  4. Rudy Spinning The Wheels Of Steel

    I have a few albums like that myself--searching for years, never finding a copy. But I can never give up looking.
    Rudy, Jan 31, 2012
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  5. mikeargo Member

    Know what you mean. For decades, the BMB's final A&M album remained elusive, the stuff of legend. When I discovered eBay in '99 one of the first things I looked for was a decent copy of As Time Goes By, but it was still rare to see one. I won a copy that was almost unlistenable and returned it. Then only a few months later a coworker told me she had a crate of old LPs in her car that she was getting rid of for her parents, and did I want any? So there it finally was--mint condition, played maybe once, and for free. My day was made! Maybe even my decade.

    =Mike A.
    mikeargo, Feb 1, 2012
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  6. Rudy Spinning The Wheels Of Steel

    I was buying albums (and even a couple of tapes) online in the days before eBay and even before the Web became popular. I used to frequent the rec.music.marketplace newsgroup (before it split into three newsgroups, for vinyl, CD and miscellaneous...so that dates me a bit!). I'm pretty sure that is where I saw a listing for As Time Goes By, and got a stone mint copy for $15. (I figured since CDs cost that much, it really wasn't a stretch. To this day, I have never seen a copy of that LP anywhere in my record crawls. I also located reels for Tamba 4's We And The Sea (and a few months later, an LP copy), and Pete Jolly's Herb Alpert Presents.
    Rudy, Feb 1, 2012
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