> what happened to some of these folks
Well, Kirk, speaking for myself, I got married a year ago 3/19. I haven't posted here much since the birth of the Guilty Pleasures thread in my single days, but I still listen to AM when I can. I was a more frequent poster (and listener) as a single-without-children, when I had more leisure time!
This thread was among my AM forum "favorites" so the recent e-mail notifications brought me back. And, more specifically, I felt compelled to reply to your post because we had such similar tastes.
I didn't have all the Herb Alpert LPs, but I had 3 or 4. And Lonely Bull was my first (and, I agree, probably the best).
I also loved Paul Mauriat/Love is Blue as a teen. I remember the sexy album cover caused some controversy in my very conservative household! But they let me keep it anyway. Probably helped that it sounded enough like Mantovani to make my parents relax. (But if I recall, that model on the cover was very, very hot! Clothed only in body paint. Fueled some young teen fantasies.)
And Winchester Cathedral...one of my faves as a young kid. I was probably 8 or so when that came out. Had a 45 of it that I played to death. The other favorite 45 I had from roughly the same era--odd, but not quite as odd as Winchester Cathedral--was Washington Square by the Village Stompers. Anyone remember that?
> the "oh brother..." soundtrack did miracles for americana folk music!
...anyone else get into that? awesome!
Are you talking about
O Brother, Where Art Thou, with George Clooney? Happens to be one of my wife's favorite movies. She introduced me to it; I'd never seen it. That was a fun movie &
great soundtrack.