Herb Alpert - Why Was He Popular?

[kittenblue]

I actually have my Whipped Cream LP sitting right here by my printer, where it has been sitting for the last year.

[Cluricaun]

@drastic_quench

You’re correct.

:smack:

To be fair a lot of Herb’s stuff does have an elevator song quality to it though.

[RealityChuck]

In instrumentation, you’re right, but Alpert’s music was too uptempo for elevator music.

[Musicat]

@RealityChuck

In instrumentation, you’re right, but Alpert’s music was too uptempo for elevator music.

It was reserved for express elevators.

[Zeldar]

@Musicat

It was reserved for express elevators.

Or escalators.

[pulykamell]

@Cluricaun

:smack:

To be fair a lot of Herb’s stuff does have an elevator song quality to it though.

To me, it sounds more like background music for wacky hijinks, blooper reels, or, in his more “dramatic” works, a 60s crime series set in a tropical locale.

[Chefguy]

@Krokodil

Until right now, I had no idea they were two separate people. Kind of like Kurt Russell and Jeff Bridges. {Blush}

I used to confuse Russell with Patrick Swayze, and I still get Brenda Lee and Teresa Brewer mixed up.

[Two_Many_Cats]

@RealityChuck

Alpert had no beard in the 60s and 70s, though he has one now. He also wasn’t fat. You’re definitely confusing him with Hirt.

Wasn’t there some announcer who said, “And now, we present the horny sounds of Al Hirt.” ?

[Chefguy]

@Two_Many_Cats

Wasn’t there some announcer who said, “And now, we present the horny sounds of Al Hirt.” ?

I once referred to the “Wonderland By Night” trumpeter as Bert Kemfart. I was twelve at the time.

[Evil_Captor]

@Taomist

Yep. That is the only song I can associate with him, but it’s still stuck in my head, 30+ years later so…not bad.

One of these days I will get around to listening to something else by him.

Get yourself a taste of honey then!

Alpert was popular because he was a damn fine jazz composer, arranger and trumpeter.