I didn't know about that one I never had this particular single thanks for setting me straight Harry I now stand corrected.I'm guessing that the b-side of "Without Her", "Sandbox" may have beaten GREATEST HITS to the misspelling of Mr. Alpert's name with an erroneous "b".
Yes indeed they truly are however they do make interesting collectibles though.Those misspellings are pathetic!
Exactly And I notice something amiss just listening to the samples I still remember the ripoff of TJB volume 2 called " Spanish Harlem & Other delights" from a few years ago which also had tracks from The Lonely bull and hearing the samples they all sounded like they were in mono but not true mono they sounded like the left channel which had the main trumpet and the other instruments faintly in the background and at the time volume 2 wasn't available in physical CD but to me it was a cheap counterfeit just like the above Abomination thankfully I never purchased Any of it so I'm glad I held out for the authentic Cd/download releases which are Spot on.Bringing up this abomination again:
If you look at the titles, it's a rip-off of THE BEAT OF THE BRASS, with added songs, but that's not what brought me to post this.
I was reading something elsewhere about streaming music, and thought I'd revisit Pandora, the only streaming "service" I'd ever signed up with. A few years ago, I played around with it and set up a station around Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
So I found my way in and started up the "station" and was treated to the Mort Stevens "Hawaii Five-O Theme" and then "Bittersweet Samba" and something else I don't recall at the moment. Following that it was back to Herb and "This Guys In Love With You", and the image above appeared on screen.
As I listened - I had headphones on - it sounded weird. Herb's voice was coming from both channels, but not in sync or something. Usually on this track, in headphones, Herb's voice is centered, as if inside your own head, but here I was hearing him on the left and again on the right.
Checking out the Amazon listing of this "album" where it's available as a download, I found that indeed, the file they are selling - or at least using as a demo - has that weird - almost duophonic sound to it with Herb's voice coming from two locations.
Checking other songs from the source on Amazon, it seemed that all of the tracks from THE BEAT OF THE BRASS sound that way, with Herb's trumpet coming from a dual location.
In other words, whoever put this abomination together first futzed with the sound, you know, one of those "I can remaster this at home and make it sound better" types. There are all kinds of filters with sound-editing software that can mangle a track like this, and it's obvious to me that that's what was done here.
Just another reason to avoid this kind of counterfeiting.
I'm going to bet this is a way to trick the automatic copyright protection filters on YouTube and elsewhere--if they can do some phasey tricks to the sound, it may throw off the automatic detection as the sound is changed enough to prevent a match.
I agree They seem so desperate to get these rotten bootlegs out it seems they are using every kind of Trickery audio and otherwise to do it.
Back in the 60s most TVs were black and white, but I don't want one! 😉
I once had that 8 track of Greatest hits but a mid 70s version but it too had the songs in a different order two songs were altered Lonely bull had an extra line to it and America appeared to be edited ( or more like butchered) during the vocal chorus and toward the end at least the one I had exhibited these traits I think it's the same kind of formatting yours has except you have an Early version but that's the interesting thing about collecting music IMO
Sounds Right to me thanks for the confirmation Mike
That sounds like they used the 45 RPM edit.
Very true Einstein defined insanity ( Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result) which applies in this case
Yes it's a legal Public Domain release...
