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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Dee Jay Sampler - The Best From Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass

A&M Records LP 9004

Ah, jeez...the BACK cover says LP 9004 (MONO), 
the front cover has SP 19004, and the discs have LP-9004

(LP-9009) and LP-9004 (LP-9010)

OF NOTE...these are all MONO MIXES

(Back to MONO I say!)

01 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)
02 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - South Of The Border
03 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Mexican Shuffle
04 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - A Taste Of Honey
05 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream
06 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
07 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Zorba The Greek
08 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Cabaret
09 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Taxi
10 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - What Now My Love
11 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - If I Were A Rich Man 
12 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Mame
13 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Work Song
14 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Casino Royale
15 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - A Banda
16 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - This Guy's In Love With You

DRAFTERVOI HE SAY: 

Okay, gang, here's the story on this one. 

A few years ago, I found a stereo version of "The Lonely Bull."  The stereo is weird, they push all the instruments to one channel, and dump the trumpet into the other, and it lacks the punch of the original mono mix. It just sounds wrong.  I tracked down a mono version and all was right for the world.

But it wasn't the end of it:  A friend of mine is a trumpet player and studying for a degree in music (at the grand old age of 68...hi Gary!).  That led us into discovering that the mono mixes of the Herb Alpert records are often slightly different from the stereo mixes, so of course I had to track them down.  

This led me to discover that a "Dee Jay Sampler" of the mono mixes had been issued in 1969, so I bid on a copy on Ebay, digitized it, cleaned up the clicks and pops, applied some fade ins and outs between tracks, and tightened up the silence between tracks.  Eight seconds before the next song? In the future, we don't have as much patience as in 1969.

This is LOADED with songs that were lurking in the charts when I was a child; all but two of them hit the Billboard Hot #100 ("South of the Border," and "If I Were A Rich Man" didn't chart).  
HIPSTERS TAKE NOTE:  Mr. Alpert played the wild trumpet part on reggae group UB40's "Rat In Mi Kitchen.” It’s troo!

Anyway...long story short, these are MONO versions, from a reasonably clean copy of the LP.  I'll probably clean this one and try again in a few years but for right now...this is pretty good. 

Yeah, it's not rock and roll, it's not weird be-boop jazz, it's just pop verging on Muzak, and yeah, my dad would FINALLY approve of something I posted (were he alive), Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï says,"Give it a spin."

Seriously, this stuff is fun music.

We LOVE Herb!

We’re Hip we know what cooks, easy listening or no this is the master trumpeter hisself!

 

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea