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Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped
Released: Mar 7, 2006
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Released: Mar 7, 2006
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Rewhipped amounts to a pseudo-addition to the original Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass catalog. This album of remixes by late-'90s and 2000-era DJs features new trumpet solos by Herb Alpert on...
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Christmas Album
Released: November 1968
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Released: November 1968
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Herb Alpert turned to jazz's Shorty Rogers -- then toiling in the L.A. film and TV studios -- for voice and string arrangements on his Christmas album, and Rogers in turn went all out for schmaltz....
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Going Places
Released: September 1965
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Released: September 1965
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Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass were rolling right down the middle of the American pop scene like a locomotive in 1966 -- and this album captures them at the peak of their exuberance. By now,...
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South of the Border
Released: October 1964
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Released: October 1964
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A comeback from the relatively disappointing initial sales of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Vol. 2, South of the Border was helped considerably by the selection of the tune "Mexican Shuffle" by the...
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What Now My Love
Released: April 1966
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Released: April 1966
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With this album, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass settle into their hitmaking groove, the once strikingly eclectic elements of Dixieland, pop, rock, and mariachi becoming more smoothly integrated...
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Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Vol. 2
Released: May 1963
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Released: May 1963
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The second album by "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass" (still a group of studio session men at this point) was not an immediate hit after its single, "Marching Thru Madrid," failed to repeat the success...
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S.R.O.
Released: November 1966
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Released: November 1966
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By late 1966, it seemed as if every TV commercial and every pop arranger had latched onto the Herb Alpert "Ameriachi" sound -- at which point the resourceful originator of that sound began to pare...
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Sounds Like
Released: May 1967
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Released: May 1967
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For one week in June 1967, Sounds Like was able to break the Monkees' 31-week hammerlock on the number one slot on the charts -- just two weeks before the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper took over and changed...
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Herb Alpert's Ninth
Released: December 1967
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Released: December 1967
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The cover art of Herb Alpert's Ninth is hilarious -- a bust of grim old Beethoven wearing a Herb Alpert sweatshirt, a parody of the pop icon fad going around at the time and maybe a comment on the...
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Warm
Released: June 1969
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Released: June 1969
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Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass shed almost all of the dust of Tijuana on this mellow, richly textured album; one reviewer at the time wrote that Alpert seemed to have exchanged bullrings for...
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