The Beat of the Brass - DELUXE EDITION
Released: Aug 16, 2005
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Released: Aug 16, 2005
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Meant as the companion album to a Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass television special of the same name and packaged in a fancy double-fold LP jacket, The Beat of the Brass came out amid signs that...
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Sounds Like - DELUXE EDITION
Released: Aug 16, 2005
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Released: Aug 16, 2005
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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 - DELUXE EDITION
Released: Aug 16, 2005
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Released: Aug 16, 2005
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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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What Now My Love - DELUXE EDITION
Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Released: Jun 7, 2005
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With this album, Herb Alpert & 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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S.R.O. - DELUXE EDITION
Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Released: Jun 7, 2005
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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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Going Places - DELUXE EDITION
Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Released: Jun 7, 2005
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Herb Alpert & 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, there...
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