{"id":14355,"date":"2015-03-04T05:41:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14355"},"modified":"2015-03-04T05:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:41:32","slug":"the-platter-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/the-platter-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Platter Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, I listen to a pile of records.  Well, not a pile.  A stack.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of a week, it looks like this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/platterstack.jpg\" width=\"450\" alt=\"The platter stack\"><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I listened to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The George Shearing Trio <i>Jazz Moments<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Living Brass <i>Songs Made Famous By Tom Jones<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert&#8217;s Tijuana Brass <i>Volume 2<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Frank Sinatra <i>September of My Years<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Frank Sinatra <i>That Old Feeling<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Maynard Ferguson <i>Conquistador<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert <i>Rise<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Swedish Gospel Singers <i>Take A Little Time to Sing<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Sergio Mendes &#038; Brasil 66 <i><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Guy Lombardo <i>Alley Cat<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jackie Gleason Presents <i>Music to Make You Misty<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>What Now My Love<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Bobby Dukoff <i>Sax in Silk<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>SRO<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>Going Places<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>Warm<\/i><\/li>\n<li>St. Louis Symphony Orchestra <i>Debussy La Mer and Ravel La Valse and Valses Nobles et Sentimales<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>The Brass Are Comin&#8217;<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Los Norte Americanos <i>The Band I Heard In Tijuana<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Melachrino Strings and Orchestra <i>Music for Relaxation<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Dean Martin <i>You Can&#8217;t Love &#8216;Em All<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Mercury Records <i>Music to Live By<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Rocio Jurado <i>Senora<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Daniel Barenboim <i>Mozart in Minor<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Maynard Ferguson <i>High Voltage<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Emil Gilels <i>Beethoven &#8216;Emperor Concerto<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Frank Sinatra <i>Only the Lonely<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>Sounds Like<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jackie Gleason Presents <i>The Torch with the Blue Flame<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chicago <i>Chicago<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>Greatest Hits<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Soundtrack <i>Bridge on the River Kwai<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Paris Conservetoire Orchestra\/New Symphony of London <i>Favorite Overtures<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Welk <i>Polka Party<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Dean Martin <i>The Dean Martin TV Show<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jackie Gleason Presents <i>Music, Martinis, and Memories<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert &#038; The Tijuana Brass <i>Coney Island<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Gary Graffman and the New York Philharmonic <i>Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto\/Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Herb Alpert <i>Beyond<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Trumpets Unlimited <i>Sounds Tijuana!<\/i><\/li>\n<li> <i>Percussion Espanol<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Jay Gordon String Orchestra <i>Music for Day Dreaming<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Houston Symphony Orchestra <i>Johannes Brahms Symphony 3 in F Major<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Bamberg Symphony Orchestra <i>Rossini William Tell and other famous overtures<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Henry Mancini <i>The Music from Peter Gunn<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also probably also listened to a Beethoven symphony or two, but I put the boxed sets away immediately and don&#8217;t stack them.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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