Herb Alpert Presents Pete Jolly

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I never thought that this album was ever re-issued, but I just spotted this on eBay. It appears to be a mid-70s pressing of HERB ALPERT PRESENTS PETE JOLLY.

Herb Alpert Presents Pete Jolly-1975 Press A&M Stereo-SHRINK-M-/-M UNPLAYED JAZZ | eBay »

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The weird part is that the jacket has a promo sticker. Why would A&M be promoting this album in the mid-70s?

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In the past few days, I spotted a mono promo of this on eBay and grabbed it. It was WAY less than the one that's been out there forever for $199. I'll be eager to hear this when it arrives and compare it to the stereo version.
 
I have a vintage white label promo version of this along with a nice needledrop cd i think the reason A&M might have been promoting this album is that they might have been targeting Easy Listening/jazz Radio back in the 70s i know of one station close to where i was living at the time was playing the track "Amy's Theme" from this lp in regular rotation along with a few others and judging by the white/Silver/tan A&M label this was pressed on. It is my opinion that it might have been either reissued or there were plans to reissue it. Then again i may be wrong. But its just a guess on my part but I love this Album and im glad to have it in my collection it should have Been released on CD. But thankfully i have my needledrop
 
Weird about the label above--it does not feature the standard typefaces for the silver label. It still reuses the typesetting from the original tan-label version. Never have seen that before.
 
Weird about the label above--it does not feature the standard typefaces for the silver label. It still reuses the typesetting from the original tan-label version. Never have seen that before.
My first copy of Wes montgomery's Greatest Hits Had that same label situation silver label with the reused type setting from the original ochre label. So it has happened before.
 
The answer is in the sticker. When a radio station would ask for a copy of a catalog item (something other than a current release), there were two ways they could get it. Most labels had a program where stations could buy back catalog at wholesale. The stations that didn't have an established, ongoing relationship with the label usually ended up paying, and you'd get sent a nice, clean shrink-wrapped copy that would normally get sent to distributors for eventual retail sale.

If you did have a good relationship, though, you'd get it for free. But the labels' accounting practices required considering promo copies the property of the label, loaned to the radio station for airplay (though I don't know of a single case of a label ever getting a promo copy back)...so if you got it for free, they'd take a stock copy, drill a hole in the cover and slap a "PROMOTIONAL COPY NOT FOR SALE" sticker on it.

So, sometime after 1973 (the seller says it was '75), most likely a station building a library asked for a copy and got it.
 
The answer is in the sticker. When a radio station would ask for a copy of a catalog item (something other than a current release), there were two ways they could get it. Most labels had a program where stations could buy back catalog at wholesale. The stations that didn't have an established, ongoing relationship with the label usually ended up paying, and you'd get sent a nice, clean shrink-wrapped copy that would normally get sent to distributors for eventual retail sale.

If you did have a good relationship, though, you'd get it for free. But the labels' accounting practices required considering promo copies the property of the label, loaned to the radio station for airplay (though I don't know of a single case of a label ever getting a promo copy back)...so if you got it for free, they'd take a stock copy, drill a hole in the cover and slap a "PROMOTIONAL COPY NOT FOR SALE" sticker on it.

So, sometime after 1973 (the seller says it was '75), most likely a station building a library asked for a copy and got it.
I work in radio so what you described is very much true unfortunately we had some sticky fingered DJs in the past Stealing our vinyl and Cds and i can only cringe when i think about the possibility of a Label asking for a promo copy back and the station being unable to do so because of the item being stolen however we have a very Strict policy against theft they even had to install security cameras in the library.
 
My needledrop CD copy of this great album is only one of many that I added to my laptop music mix it's wonderful to be able to quickly access music like this to me this would have to be my favorite Pete Jolly album
 
That's an interesting mash-up of the first two albums...
 
I think this album would of been much better with Nick Ceroli on drums, and Julius Wechter on marimba and vibes. Although Pete Jolly plays great as usual and the material is very good, the rhythm section just sounds uninspired...
 
The 2nd album Give A Damn is a strange album. It's very short. What I like is that it's the only album of the three that features the trio sound he is known for, with his longtime bassist Chuck Berghofer, and Nick Ceroli sitting in on drums. But the overdubbed horn parts are out of place and unnecessary, and the fake audience noises on the title track are awkward. So I do like the trio part of the album, and "Whistle While You Work" is a remake of the same track from his earlier RCA album When Lights Are Low (which IMHO is better than anything he ever did at A&M).
 
There's an entire thread on its own. "Live" albums (mostly of the 60s and early 70s) that were studio recordings with applause dubbed in.
Indeed. And even individual tracks. The eponymous Seawind album (from 1980) finished off side one with "Everything Needs Love" which faked a live audience with an arena-sized crowd.

The "Give A Damn" live touch is especially strange since it is nowhere near what you hear in a live jazz club. Listen to the two Bill Evans albums Sunday at the Village Vanguard or Waltz for Debby (both from the same gig) or heck, go back to one of Cal Tjader's old albums like his Blackhawk album on Verve. There's no raucous applause or cheering, and it doesn't sound like it came off of a sound effects reel.
 
My vote for the dumbest is THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW. Mike Post and Nick DeCaro produced it, and it was Andy's by-then formula of studio covers of hits of the past couple of years with one more traditional MOR track. But because his weekly TV show was having a moment, they produced the album with the show's opening theme, bumper music and canned applause between the tracks---enough of it that the album features ten songs instead of the usual 11 or 12.

It peaked at #81.
 
vote for the dumbest is THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW
I think that's the one with the dog (!) on the cover... I parted ways with Andy starting with Honey ('68) -- where he's trying too hard to be "with it" (which, was the directive at the time, but 50+ years later it really dates the LP).

The worst fake applause I've heard was on the second self/titled Sandpipers LP (SP-4125). Nick DeCaro was responsible for this as well.
 
raucous applause or cheering
I recall that old Spike Lee movie (late '80s) about the U.S. Jazz scene. After each solo the audience went wild with spirited applause... I've never heard applause that like for any headliner I've seen in a club (Freddie Hubbard, Pharoah Sanders, MJQ, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Herbie Mann, et al)
 
I passed up on the 2nd release, but recently acquired the CD issue of the 3rd release, Seasons, which, is quite fascinating as well as being very listenable.
I recently Bought the "Seasons" release as a digital Download and I found it very Contemporary for its time and very Enjoyable He had progressed a bit since the first A&M album I wasn't aware of the second release until more recently but it's not available digitally or in physical format however after reading the comments on it I guess I'm not missing much
 
Actually, that second release is most like his classic stuff--"Whistle While You Work" he has covered a few times, especially early in his career. The only thing bothering me there is the unnecessary overdubbing, including the phony applause on "Give A Damn."

I'll play the Little Bird album (supposedly his most famous) if I'm in the mood for Pete Jolly these days--it fires on all cylinders and catches him in his prime.
 
I think Give a Damn! (his second A&M album) has some great playing and is probably my favorite of his 3 A&M outings. The only thing I find wrong with it is the "fake" applause overdubs Rudy mentions and the fact that it has a very short running time. It could've easily held 2 to 4 more tunes.

--Mr Bill
 
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