Every week, I listen to a pile of records. Well, not a pile. A stack.
You see, as I get them out from the shelves to give them a spin, I start stacking them next to the record player not unlike a college student stacking his beer cups at a Milwaukee church fair. As trophies of music listened to. Also, it ensures I get decent rotation on the LPs so I listen to different things daily.
At the end of a week, it looks like this:
Last week, I listened to:
- The George Shearing Trio Jazz Moments
- Living Brass Songs Made Famous By Tom Jones
- Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass Volume 2
- Frank Sinatra September of My Years
- Frank Sinatra That Old Feeling
- Maynard Ferguson Conquistador
- Herb Alpert Rise
- The Swedish Gospel Singers Take A Little Time to Sing
- Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66
- Guy Lombardo Alley Cat
- Jackie Gleason Presents Music to Make You Misty
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass What Now My Love
- Bobby Dukoff Sax in Silk
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass SRO
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Going Places
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Warm
- St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Debussy La Mer and Ravel La Valse and Valses Nobles et Sentimales
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass The Brass Are Comin’
- Los Norte Americanos The Band I Heard In Tijuana
- The Melachrino Strings and Orchestra Music for Relaxation
- Dean Martin You Can’t Love ‘Em All
- Mercury Records Music to Live By
- Rocio Jurado Senora
- Daniel Barenboim Mozart in Minor
- Maynard Ferguson High Voltage
- Emil Gilels Beethoven ‘Emperor Concerto
- Frank Sinatra Only the Lonely
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Sounds Like
- Jackie Gleason Presents The Torch with the Blue Flame
- Chicago Chicago
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Greatest Hits
- Soundtrack Bridge on the River Kwai
- The Paris Conservetoire Orchestra/New Symphony of London Favorite Overtures
- Lawrence Welk Polka Party
- Dean Martin The Dean Martin TV Show
- Jackie Gleason Presents Music, Martinis, and Memories
- Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Coney Island
- Gary Graffman and the New York Philharmonic Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto/Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
- Herb Alpert Beyond
- The Trumpets Unlimited Sounds Tijuana!
- Percussion Espanol
- The Jay Gordon String Orchestra Music for Day Dreaming
- The Houston Symphony Orchestra Johannes Brahms Symphony 3 in F Major
- Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Rossini William Tell and other famous overtures
- Henry Mancini The Music from Peter Gunn
I also probably also listened to a Beethoven symphony or two, but I put the boxed sets away immediately and don’t stack them.
As you can see, I favor the 1960s Tijuana trumpet sound. Also note that the record collection tends to run towards big band, crooners, classical, and trumpet selections with only a few post-1960s titles and movie soundtracks. Because that’s what I like to play in the background for meals or main level house living. The rock is all on the computer for work-time listening.