# Why do record stores, thrift shops and flea markets have a glut of Streisand, Manilow and Alpert? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560 "2009-11-06T13:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560/61 "2009-11-15T16:22:36Z")
One of my (30ish) coworkers who is addicted to Michael Buble has begun playing the “greatest hits” of Barry Manilow. Extreme remedies are contemplated. If Streisand enters the equation I can’t be held responsible for what may ensue. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560/62 "2009-11-16T00:05:57Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Streisand and [Herb Alpert](http://greatbutforgotten.blogspot.com/2009/04/herb-alpert-and-tijuana-brass-music.html) were at least as popular as any big name rock group other than the Beatles or Elvis in their heyday. > … > snip > … > But their music was for an older audience than rock (well, Alpert did have a lot of rock-age fans). As their audience moved on, they moved toward rock, so Streisand and Alpert was the first thing they got rid of. And, of course, now their audience is dying out and their records being sold by their children who have never listened to them. I got the impression, at the time, that this “older crowd” was pretty much anyone from about thirty on up the late forties. I remember my uncle had Herb Alpert in the eight track in his sports car; as he was a single doctor still dashing about with the ladies (and doing fairly well at it), it gives one example as to the set and setting where this type of music might be found. I was about thirteen myself, but I also had some Alpert records alongside the Beatles and others. Today I think most of the thirty to fifty crowd still listens to rock or some variant of it, although not the same music as their children, and also alongside other types of music as our tastes mature (or for some of us). ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560/63 "2009-12-21T18:50:14Z")
After visiting quite a few thrift stores in my hometown, I’m going to bump this thread and ask: were barbershop quartets, organ music and patriotic marches popular in the 1960s? The thrift stores are loaded down with LPs of such music from the era, along with the usual “and His Orchestra” performers. I’ve seen a lot of ragtime LPs too, but there was supposedly a brief ragtime revival in the early 1970s that was probably the source of this. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560/64 "2009-12-21T19:03:31Z")
I have in my possession an unopened as in still in plastic Barbra Streisand 8-Track-Tape, it was in a box that belonged to my grandfather. Who would like it? I am taking bids.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560/65 "2009-12-21T21:24:46Z")
50 posts and no one has mention that every thrift store is made, not out of concrete or wood, but boxes and boxes of Trivial Pursuit. I now live in a very rural, very religious area. I was perusing the albums the other day and every single one of them was some sort of religious thing. You’d think that sort of thing would have a tad longer appeal. Then again, I work with a religious nut (no really, even the religious folks thinks she’s off the deep end) who brings in CD’s for people of sermons and what-not. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560/66 "2009-12-21T22:22:39Z")
A tasty treat for those who appreciate the greatness of WC&OD: [Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped](http://www.rhapsody.com/herb-alpert/whipped-cream-other-delights-rewhipped) (Rhapsody link) Cheesy knockoff? Depends, what do you think of Ozomatli, Medeski Martin and Wood, or Thievery Corporation? Give it a listen. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560/67 "2009-12-21T22:49:25Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > I’ve seen a lot of ragtime LPs too, but there was supposedly a brief ragtime revival in the early 1970s that was probably the source of this. There was, indeed. It was fueled by the use of Scott Joplin pieces in the soundtrack of “The Sting”. I remember a talent show at my grade school at about that time; I think we had 5 different kids playing “The Entertainer”. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-record-stores-thrift-shops-and-flea-markets-have-a-glut-of-streisand-manilow-and-alpert/516560.md?page=3)