remove html select option using jquery

Hello,

I'm trying to dynamically remove an html select option item but I'm unable to get it to remove unless I hardcode the option value. I need to remove the select option based on the value passed to the function below...any ideas on where I've gone wrong?

function loadGallery(albumId, albumTitle){
	$("#selectAlbum option[value='37']").remove(); //hard coding it works
        $("#selectAlbum option[value=' + albumId + ']").remove(); //this doesn't work, but no error

}

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