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PETER NERO PLAYS A SALUTE TO HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS (RCA Victor). Though few arrangers admit it, much of what comes out of the recording studios these days is inspired by Herb Alpert's Latin-flavored brass sound. Giving credits where credit is due, Nero here presents sparkling and masterful piano solos that nicely complement the sophisticated slurrings of the horns in A Taste of Honey, What Now My Love and Tijuana Taxi. His technique is at its best as he evokes the swirl of a jazz dance in the theme from Zorba the Greek, or lays...
CASINO ROYALE (Colgems). The surest musical bet that Producer Charles Feldman could make for the theme song of his $12 million, many-Bonded movie was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Playing Burt Bacharach's music, Herb and the boys take the bull by the horns, while a very competent studio orchestra keeps the tail from dragging...
...GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy Williams emcees the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards for the best in movies and television. Sandy Koufax and Herb Alpert will pass out the bright, shiny orbs...
Sgan said that the university was trying to encourage student-faculty debate of the drug problem, and that "a spectrum of experts on drugs including Leary and Alpert have been asked to give talks on the subject...
...PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE (Broadside). Three of the pot religion's high priests (Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner) read from "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead" in droning, sullen voices that might be coming from the far side of the grave. "You are about to begin a great adventure, a trip out of your mind," Leary promises. What the listener is really about to begin is a dull record, with little to recommend it beyond a beautifully executed jacket drawing...