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St. Louis’ must-see concerts in August include Diana Ross, Rod Stewart and Wilco He’s playing the Touhill Center for Performing Arts in August. I’ll be there if he is. I saw him when he was in Springfield…. eight years ago? Already? We’d hoped to catch him somewhere else in the intervening years, but the closest […]
Taylor Swift just made Billboard history, again Drop everything now: Taylor Swift has just made history as the first woman — and third artist ever — to have four of the Top 10 albums in the Billboard 200 chart at the same time. Herb Alpert had four albums in the top 10 in 1966. Which […]
This album fits in with the mellow 1960s sound found on the other Christmas albums I’ve reviewed so far this year (you can find them here). As you might know, gentle reader, it was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass that initially led me into collecting albums from the 1960s in the easy listening genre, […]
As some of you know, I have a lot of Herb Alpert LPs that I like to listen to from time to time. I listen to The Lonely Bull a lot, Rise fairly often, South of the Border and What Now My Love? [sic] frequently, and Sounds Like…. and Warm from time to time (but […]
I bought this book after I attended the Herb Alpert / Lani Hall concert last year. I didn’t have enough cash to buy it at the theatre, but I ordered it promptly after I got home. It’s a collection of short memories from Ms. Hall-Alpert’s life growing up in Chicago interspersed with short stories inspired […]
As you might know, gentle reader, I favor the music of Eydie Gorme, and when she does a song that someone else does, I think Eydie does it better. (see this and this). I also favor the stylings of Herb Alpert (as you can see how often his name appears on my Good Album Hunting […]
Spotify’s 2025 summary reveals something…. Mostly untrue about me. 84 years old? More like 84 decibels minimum, you mean. And Tine Thing Helseth? I bought one of her CDs a number of years ago, but she’s not my favorite trumpeter by any means–and classical is not my favorite genre. What Spotify’s algorithm does not know […]
Holly has a problem with Amazon’s new LLM: Just in time for their Black Friday deals, Amazon has rolled out the most annoying, aggressively anti-customer thing I’ve ever seen. If you aren’t seeing it today, you will soon. Every search results in Rufus, their AI, opening a chat window with you that’s part of the […]
We expected to go to Bolivar, Missouri, Saturday morning for a cross country meet, but we got a reprieve when my son the student athlete did not get up and get to school to take the bus with his team. So I slept in and dragged him to a couple of estate sales and thrift […]
I mentioned that I was reading a book by Yogi Berra, and not one I’d read before (well, I searched my blog, and I’ve only read When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It and The Yogi Book). I liked them well enough that I bought this book at ABC Books in […]
It seems like I just re-read the actual book, but that was in 2020. I’m not sure at what garage sale I might have picked up this single audiocassette with no binder/folder, but our recent ride back from St. Louis (to see Herb Alpert as the ancients foretold), I popped it into the vehicle’s audio […]
As I have finished the last bits of the record shelving I started to build on Labor Day Weekend, I thought I’d show you what the Nogglestead record library looks like after a decade’s worth of book sales and visits to the antique malls ostensibly for “Christmas shopping” but in the “one for you, one […]
As I mentioned, we went to the book sale over the weekend, and they had a larger-than-normal selection of LPs even though it was Saturday and half price day, which meant that most were fifty cents each. As I completed some record shelving Labor Day weekend, I felt comfortable… gorging. I got: This Is The […]
When doing my Discogs research for my Good Book Hunting post this weekend, when I lit upon the entry for Stereo and All That Jazz, it presented me with a carousel at the bottom with recommendations: Pretty good recommendations. Of them, I already have: Fun and Games by Chuck Mangione Breezin’ by George Benson What’s […]
Facebook hit me with this suggested post the other day: I recognized the album, as I bought it in 2021, and since it’s on the Internet, I assume the AIlgorithms know it. But Facebook feeds me a diet of hockey players, 80s and 90s nostalgia, and jazz musicians, the last probably because I follow KCSM […]
It’s a bit of a shame, gentle reader, that I think of this 19-year-old film as the new The Punisher, but that’s because I am old enough to remember the 1989 Dolph Lundgren movie which was an earlier take on the character. I do not think I’ve seen that film en toto, but I remember […]
It has been eight years since I did a Christmas album review (Christmas Album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass in 2016(!)). Which is odd, as I have accumulated many more Christmas albums in the interim–so much so that I will probably not listen to all of them before they get put back up […]
Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks to perform at Arrowhead Stadium Things I would have thought it impossible to say twenty years ago: It’s been over twenty years since I saw Billy Joel in concert. Which is true: It was his 2000 Years tour. Back when I was a technical writer and worked at DRA. He played […]
As I mentioned, I made it out to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library’s book sale yesterday and hit the dollar record bins. The selection was smaller than the last sale’s–I guess everyone is realizing the value of old records, or perhaps the old, old records in the genres that I like have worked […]
This afternoon, my youngest son had one of his few remaining middle school youth group activities; his activities are an hour and a half long, and the ride into town is 20 minutes, so instead of coming home and going back to get him, I killed the time at Relics Antique Mall. As you might […]