{"id":14238,"date":"2015-01-22T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T21:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14238"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:16:22","slug":"the-herb-alpert-album-that-gets-short-shrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/the-herb-alpert-album-that-gets-short-shrift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Herb Alpert Album That Gets Short Shrift"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/em> a lot, Rise<\/em> fairly often, South of the Border<\/em> and What Now My Love?<\/em> [sic] frequently, and Sounds Like….<\/em> and Warm<\/em> from time to time (but less often than I would if the covers did not look so similar).<\/p>\n

You see, I pick the next album to play based on the bit of the cover that I can see in the gap of a couple inches as I flip through them on the shelf of record albums. <\/p>\n

So The Beat of the Brass<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

gets passed over more often than it should. Why? Because it looks just enough<\/em> in that gap like Fly on Strangewings<\/em> by Marianne Segal and Jade Silver:<\/p>\n

\"Fly<\/p>\n

I guess it’s the color of the trees in the background and the yellow ground that does it. Also, I’m generally not getting that close of a look at the cover as I flip through.<\/p>\n

The former I bought because I like Herb Alpert. The latter I got for free twenty some years ago in the free box at Recordhead, a used record store in Milwaukee. I’ve listened to it only a couple of times.<\/p>\n

Strangely, according to Discogs<\/a>, the latter goes for $30 and was rereleased on CD this century. Maybe I should give it another listen after these twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19823,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14238\/revisions\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}