Yazmin_Salinas
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kenny said:I would have started a record label with Jerry Moss and formed a band called the Tijuana Brass.
Kenny and the Tijuana Brass??? Ha ha ha!!!
NP: "El presidente" (The Korea Brass)
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kenny said:I would have started a record label with Jerry Moss and formed a band called the Tijuana Brass.
mIKE "mANY cONJECTURES" hAGERTY said:...The Soundtrack for the movie, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, would be written by someone else...Neil Diamond? Bob Dylan?
LPJim said:Michael's post is excellent and well thought out.
JB
Andrew T. said:If Herb Alpert didn't exist, Rudy would have fewer websites to run.
Mike Blakesley said:Once again,
* Lani Hall was not discovered by Herb; she was discovered by Sergio Mendes in Chicago, and was a successful singer long before she even met Herb. (Gee Yasmin, I thought you were a fan...you didn't know this?)
* Sergio Mendes was also well-known before he met Herb. Sergio had several albums on the Atlantic label before he knew Herb, and Brasil '66 could have easily signed with any number of other labels.
* A&M Records wouldn't have existed? I might have to give you that one, although Jerry Moss would have probably gotten into the business with some other artist if he hadn't hooked up with Herb.
Another David said:Another counterfactual: What if Herb got his inspiration from not a Tijuana bullfight, but a gallery of black velvet paintings?
David
60's abstract impressionist painter and sculptor Herb Alpert is adding another feather to his artistic cap as he dabbles in music. The painter turned musician admits he's always played trumpet having taken lessons as a child, eventually playing in local bands for weddings and barmitvahs while in his teens. He claims that the late pop psychologist and radiio counselor Julius Wechter and he were briefly bandmates with one another.
He even played trumpet for the US Army but "got burned out on it playing taps at funerals a dozen times a week." He says he found painting and sculpting as a "means of escaping the routine humdrum of playing trumpet day in and day out." He didn't give up music without a fight though...
Before his impressive gallery debut in 1964 took the art world by storm, he actually recorded a few "bubble gum pop" sides under the name Dore Alpert, but never broke the niche that was trailblazed by Paul Anka, Pat Boone, Frankie Avalon and so many others of the era.
His debut CD, A Taste of Mexico, which was inspired by his recent gallery debut in Mexico City, comes out Tuesday on M&M Records...