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, Hip-Hop master Common returns
with his new and sixth album on Getting Out Our Dreams Music/Geffen Records
entitled "Be," which debuted #1 on Billboard's hip-hop and R+B charts this
week, his highest debut ever, selling 184,617 units despite rampant
bootlegging of the album weeks before it's commercial release. As the
rapper's 2nd single "Go" begins tallying up mega-spins on radio + with the new
video just added to MTV, Common is set to hit the road with a string of House
of Blues appearances and a national summer tour with label mate John Legend
kicking off in Baltimore on July 18 with the first leg ending in Dallas on
August 15 (see below for itinerary).A.shoutfactory.

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Celebrating this phenomenal heyday, the
22-track 'Lost Treasures' -- also featuring new liner notes and a personal
intro from Herb -- is the premiere release in Shout! Factory's 'Herb Alpert
Signature Series."
A funky down-tempo riff on James Taylor's "Fire And Rain" -- which
L." Featuring Alpert on
vocals, it was originally intended to be the follow-up to his 1968 #1 smash
"This Guy's In Love With You.

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For more information, visit http://www.

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Common's New Getting Out Our Dreams/Geffen CD 'Be' Debuts #1 on Billboard's Hip-Hop + R+B Charts and #2 on Pop Charts as New Single 'Go' Begins to Pump Up the

"It's about being able to be without trying, being able to be in the
present moment, being able to be natural and being who you are," says Common
of the new CD." His most recent CD was 2002's "Electric Circus. "When I
heard some of the tracks, I got old-time goose bumps, the kind I used to get
when I did the original Brass recordings.

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" Guest artists joining
Common on the new CD are The Last Poets, John Mayer, Bilal, John Legend, Pops
and Kanye West himself.

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Recorded mostly in New York and L. Former Slum Village member Jay Dee produced two cuts.

Born Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Common is one of the most respected lyricists and
skilled MC's in Hip-Hop.

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"Be" is the
second release on West's Getting Out Our Dreams label, which debuted this year
with John Legend's platinum selling "Get Lifted. The Rarities Disc, Set for Release Today, February 8, Introduces
the 'Herb Alpert Signature Series'

LOS ANGELES, At the close of the 1960s, Herb Alpert
+ The Tijuana Brass -- behind only Elvis, The Beatles and Sinatra -- were the
fourth top-selling album act of that decade.

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Louis, MO
Atlanta , GA
Miami, FL
New Orleans, LA
Houston, TX
Dallas, TX

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Compiled by Alpert Himself Shout! Factory's 'Lost Treasures' Mines Previously Undiscovered Riches From Herb Alpert + The Tijuana Brass

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So I knew I was on the right
track. I wanted to keep the tracks in
the genre that I had recorded them in during that period.

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He made his solo CD debut with 1992's "Can I Borrow
A Dollar," and quickly ascended to preeminence in the Hip-Hop universe. Kun, whose book 'Strangers
Among Sounds: Music, Race, And America' will be published this year, also
writes that "Killing Me Softly" "imagines Roberta Flack on a Mexican vacation,
napping in a hammock.

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The CD has already drawn rave reviews. "I didn 't
realize I was going to be affected the way I was," Alpert recalled.

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The compilation evolved after Alpert, much to his surprise, found many
unreleased master tapes, and immersed himself in listening to them.

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' Other renditions
include Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)," Cat Stevens' "The
Whistle Star," the early '70s favorite "Popcorn," and two Bacharach/David
standards, including "(They Long To Be) Close To You.

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Key media hits include People Magazine (4 out of a
possible 4 stars ) Rolling Stone Magazine (4 Stars), Vibe (4 1/2 v's), The
Source (4 1/2 Mics), Blender (4 Stars), Spin (A- Rating), Entertainment Weekly
(A- Rating), + USA Today (3 1/2 Stars out of 4), with feature stories in
national publications like the L.

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Times, the New York Times, Entertainment
Weekly, and a Vibe Magazine cover."

Common's Upcoming Concert, dates include:
House of Blues/Chicago
House of Blues/Chicago
House of Blues/Los Angeles
House of Blues/Anaheim
House of Blues/San Diego

A National Tour with John Legend, dates include:
Baltimore, MD
Boston, MA
Philadelphia, PA
Cleveland, OH
Detroit, MI
Milwaukee, WI
Chicago, IL
St.

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Other
key CD releases include "Resurrection," "One Day it'll All Make Sense" and
"Like Water for Chocolate.' The disc mines previously unreleased gems and rarities
spanning 1963-1974, and will be available February 8. Riverside professor and 'Lost Treasures'
liner notes writer Josh Kun predicts is, "bound to find its way into DJ chill
sets" -- is another previously unissued discovery.

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From 1962-1969, they had the
nation swingin' to their sound with fourteen Top 40 Billboard singles, and
achieved the since-unmatched feats of having four albums in the Top 10 one
week, and five in the Top 20 another."
Several tracks, including "Happy Hour," were missing trumpet parts, so
Alpert hit the studio and played along with them, literally re-performing
them." Alpert remembers, "recording engineer Larry
Levine said he didn't think the song was right for me. I ."
And lucky for music lovers, the effortless cool of Herb Alpert + The
Tijuana Brass is revisited for past, present and future fans with 'Lost
Treasures.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., much of the CD's
production duties fell to Grammy-winner Kanye West, who contributed nine
tracks. The new lines Alpert laid down blend seamlessly into the vintage takes,
and he says, "I had a good time doing that."
Alpert's said that in interpreting famous popular songs, one of his goals
is, "to express the song through the trumpet as if I were singing the lyric,"
an inspired approach evident throughout 'Lost Treasures.

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XXL Magazine calls the album a
classic + other critics have hailed "Be" as Common's return to his
Resurrection days. It's actually the
same trumpet I've used for years.-based music journalist, U. Lucky for them and
lucky for A+M records.' Today, Shout! Factory will also release remasters of the classic
TJB albums 'The Lonely Bull' and 'South Of The Border' in its launch of the
'Herb Alpert Signature Series,' which will eventually include all of the
Brass' and Herb Alpert's solo albums.

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