Herb Alpert finally had a number one instrumental hit on the Billboard charts in 1979. But, it wasn’t his first number one hit. He had hit number one eleven years earlier with a vocal performance.
Herb Alpert is the only artist to hit number one with both an instrumental and a vocal song. The more you know…
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I have no memory of that song.
It’s a Burt Bacharach song. Dusty Springfield did a great rendition of it.
BTW: Just got home from a Samantha Fish concert. If you ever get a chance to see her, GO.
Bruno Walter, one of the greatest conductors ever (many would say the greatest), was born September 15, 1876. Here’s a recording of him conducting the Columbia Symphony (which, if memory serves, is actually the Cleveland Orchestra under another name) in Mozart’s Symphony No. 4 in G-minor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqO3bN5_WPo
Was The Cleveland Orchestra trying to dodge an ex-wife or something?
I didn’t remember the reason when I did my previous post, but I do now. Columbia issued recordings under both its own name and as Epic. There was some agreement that the Cleveland Orchestra recorded only for the Columbia label; the recording to which I linked must have been released on Epic.
I have a set of LPs with six of Mozart’s piano concerti on which George Szell (the conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra at the time) conducts the Cleveland Orchestra for two of them and the Columbia Symphony orchestra for the other four, although it’s the same musicians on all the tracks.
The reason for the two labels, I suspect, is that Epic LPs sold for $1 or so less than Columbia recordings, at a time when a stereophonic Columbia LP sold for $5 or so.