
I'm not wild about the term "guilty pleasure," but my fondness for the late-'60s easy-listening sound of A&M (Herb Alpert, The Sandpipers, Baja Marimba Band, Chris Montez) isn't something that cropped up much when I was writing about my pop enthusiasms, so I suppose I did keep that corner of my pop life in the shadows. You see Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 A&M LP's in every flea market and used-record store, usually in the dollar bins. But the other day I found a Sergio Mend...
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