Herb Alpert's 'Whipped Cream Lady' now 76, living in Longview and looking back

Seattle Times ^ | August 15, 2012 | Erik Lacitis

[RedMonqey]

....looks so much like my mom when she was young, it's scary.

Your father was a lucky man....

[a fool in paradise]

Nothing is as powerful as the imagination.(sometimes reality really bites!!!)

[Steely Tom]

Oh, I know. I've watched them all, and they're terrific.

"Mas que Nada" is sometimes translated as "More Than Nothing." Neither of the ladies singing it know Portugese, according to the lore. They memorized the words phonetically.

I loved Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66 as a fifth grader and I love them today. Not all their songs are that good; the ones that made it to radio airplay are pretty much the best.

If you like music of that era, something else you might check into is Mason Williams, composer/performer of Classical Gas. He was also a comedy writer; I believe he was the head writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Very, very talented guy. There are a number of YouTube videos of him playing in different venues.

[grb]

That’s just wrong, but funny

[cuban leaf]

I rediscovered vinyl about 10 years ago. I had kept most of my old stuff and added to it from bulk purchases at estate and garage sales. I now have several thousand, not counting the junk I threw in dumpsters. I have less than $200 invested. The Herb Alpert stuff is still some of my favorite. I can’t explain it. I guess it’s what I learned to love even before rock. As an amateur studio recorder myself now, I love to listen to the different production styles in the music. They were all top notch musicians, too.

I listen to his stuff for the same pleasure a guy gets out of driving a fully restored, but very old auto. It’s not for the handling...

[cuban leaf]

Huh?!

[Buckeye McFrog]

She has kept herself very trim as well

[Lazamataz]

Well, not so much. He was an alcoholic who split before I turned three.

[Lazamataz]

Oh. And more bad news.

I inherited my father's, not my mother's, looks. :(

[cuban leaf]

Not all their songs are that good; the ones that made it to radio airplay are pretty much the best.

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Yep. I got a lot of their stuff in my “estate saling” and some of their music is awful, but some is really catchy.

Then again, art is subjective.

[liberalh8ter]

One of the finest albums ever made!

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I remember that too well.

I am much younger than that tho. : ) My older brother used to play the reel to reel of that album and 2001: A space odyssey at full volume. Well at least when my Mom wasn’t at home.

[mtg]

I still have that album on LP.

[oust the louse]

Man I was just 7 years old at the time...my parents were probably groovin to that tune back in the day.

[RedMonqey]

HaHaHaHa!!! That’s FUNNY!!!

[Steely Tom]

Yep. I got a lot of their stuff in my “estate saling” and some of their music is awful, but some is really catchy.

The best, IMHO:

1. The Look of Love
2. Night And Day
3. Ye-Me-Le
4. Fool on the Hill
5. One Note Samba
6. Pretty World (very rarely heard)
7. You Stepped Out Of A Dream

I may be forgetting one.

[dfwgator]

I didn’t realize for years that “Fool on the Hill” was a Beatles’ song.

[blueunicorn6]

There was a record inside? I never looked.

[Steely Tom]

I didn’t realize for years that “Fool on the Hill” was a Beatles’ song.

Same here.

[dfwgator]

I remember back then American Airlines used to sell Reel To Reels of their Airplane Programs of music, my Dad had bought the A&M sampler, and that is pretty much how I discovered all of that stuff, Brasil ‘66, Wes Montgomery, Tom Jobim (”Wave”). I played that almost every day.