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- Date Released: April 22, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Label: Shout! Factory
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The colossus that is A&M Records starts right here with the first album by the 1960s instrumental juggernaut known as the Tijuana Brass. True, there was no "Tijuana Brass" per se at this time; just Herb Alpert and a coterie of Los Angeles sessionmen, with Alpert overdubbing himself on trumpet to get that bullring effect. Also, Alpert was just getting the TJB concept underway; the textures are leaner, the productions less polished, and the accent is more consciously on a Mexican mariachi ambience -- the relatively square rhythms, the mandolins, the mournful, wistful siesta feeling -- than the records down the road. The hit title track (originally a tune called "Twinkle Star"!) is a cleverly structured, exciting and haunting piece of record-making -- and its composer, Sol Lake, becomes the charter member of Alpert's team of TJB tunesmiths with several more ethnic-flavored numbers. In accordance with the newly emerging bossa nova movement, Alpert does a nice, straightforward, authentic cover of "Desafinado," even departing a bit from the tune with some spare jazz-inspired licks, and "Crawfish" pleasingly adapts the mariachi horn sound to a bossa beat.
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| 01. |  |
The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)
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2:18 |  |
| 02. | |
El Lobo (The Wolf)
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3:04 | |
| 03. | |
Tijuana Sauerkraut
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2:50 | |
| 04. | |
Desafinado
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3:54 | |
| 05. | |
Mexico
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2:39 | |
| 06. | |
Never On Sunday
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2:41 | |
| 07. | |
Struttin' With Maria
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2:15 | |
| 08. | |
Let It Be Me
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3:04 | |
| 09. | |
Acapulco 1922
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2:43 | |
| 10. | |
Limbo Rock
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2:12 | |
| 11. | |
Crawfish
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2:28 | |
| 12. | |
A Quiet Tear (Lagrima Quieta)
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2:21 | |
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Credits
- Herb Alpert - Horn // Herb Alpert - Horn // Herb Alpert - Producer // Herb Alpert - Producer // Herb Alpert - Main Performer // Herb Alpert - Main Performer // Herb Alpert - Performer // Herb Alpert - Performer // Tijuana Brass - Performer // Jerry Moss - Producer // Charles Underwood - Engineer // Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - Performer
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