Still trying to find Herb Alpert music track. Please help...

[Ladislao]

20 years ago I posted something here about trying to find a missing music track that Herb Alpert did back in the early 80's. Here's the best description of what I can provide about this music track:

The melody starts out with a slow funky beat that lasts about 30-40 seconds before Herb starts to join in. He joins in with kind of slow eerie echoy trumpet sound, with sounds of RAIN, THUNDER and LIGHTNING crashing in the background. Those STORMY sounds become increasingly louder as the melody progresses. During the middle part of the melody, the LIGHTNING makes a crashing sound (breaking up the beat a bit), and then the beat starts over again, and eventually fades with the RAIN in the background.
I even went through the trouble of trying to use music program on my Mac Computer called: GarageBand to painstakingly put together (as best as I could), melodically what the music track sounds like. I put this track on my dropbox account for anyone interested in listening to this sample of what I put together (minus the rain, thunder and lighting sounds).

Let me know and I'll provide the link. I might even put it on my YouTube channel. I can only hope that someone out there has heard this sample track that I put together and can provide the title of this track. Thank you for any kind of help you can provide.

 

[Ladislao]

By the way, I put this track on my SoundCloud account and include the link so you can hear the sample that I put together.



I look forward to anyone that help me locate this music track. Thank you.

 

[Harry]

Herb Alpert - "The Factory" - from the BEYOND album. Amazon.com

 

[Ladislao]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!! I've been looking for this for OVER 30 years! Again, THANK YOU!!!

 

[Harry]

You're welcome.

 

[Ladislao]

Thinking about it now (with my little understanding of using GarageBand), what I went after recreating this music track wasn't too far off. Thanks again Harry for the help!

 

[Ladislao]

I've never seen him in concert, but I'm looking forward to him coming to Houston, TX on the 15th of December. Just waiting for the tickets to become available. Can't believe he's 89 years old and still entertaining people. Good for him!

 

[Steven J. Gross]

Peter Frampton plays on the track..

 

[Harry]

Some earlier discussion on "The Factory".

🎵 AotW - Herb Alpert - BEYOND (SP-3717)

Herb Alpert BEYOND A&M SP-3717 Released 1980 (Peaked at #6 on Jazz Album chart, #26 on the R&B Album chart and #28 on the Top 200 Album chart) Format: Vinyl/Cassette/CD (Japan only) Produced by Herb Alpert, Randy Badazz & Andy Armer Songs & Musicians: 1. Kamali (Dana Barry) - 4:48 Herb...

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[Sinatra Fan in KC]

I think The Factory one of the most fascinating and haunting things he ever recorded. Wonder what his inspiration was.

 

[Aaron Bitman]

I think The Factory one of the most fascinating and haunting things he ever recorded. Wonder what his inspiration was.

I heard that Alpert commented about his successes during his Tijuana Brass years in these words: “During the period the band had all those hits, I felt I was working in a factory making songs. Push a button, write a song, sell a million." Working so much on music in that same style tired him out and caused him stress. He had to take a break and then move onto other musical styles.

And eventually, he came out with another huge success, his Rise album. After that, it seemed an obvious choice to keep making records in THAT style... but would that trap Alpert into turning out many more albums in that style, like a factory worker, while he suffered because of it? The Beyond album had many songs like that, but "The Factory" was clearly very different; it had an ominous tone that implied suffering factory workers.

I don't know for a fact that was his inspiration, but that's my hunch.

 

[Mr Bill]

I knew from your first post and the description it was "The Factory." Your bass and trumpet recollection was almost spot on. It's probably my favorite song off that album, well that and the title track.

--Mr Bill

 

[Ladislao]

I knew from your first post and the description it was "The Factory." Your bass and trumpet recollection was almost spot on. It's probably my favorite song off that album, well that and the title track.

--Mr Bill

Thank you very much. Greatly appreciate that.

 

[Mike Blakesley]

It's interesting that you use the words "thunder, rain and lightning" to describe the sound effects on "The Factory." I never really knew what the sounds were made by but due to the song's title, I just figured it was supposed to represent the clanking and banging and sounds you'd hear in a factory.

I recognized the song too, but I got it from your audio clip rather than the description.