Herb Alpert - Definitive Hits
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Artist: Herb AlpertEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- The Lonely Bull - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Mexican Shuffle - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Whipped Cream - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Lollipops And Roses - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- A Taste Of Honey - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Zorba The Greek - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- What Now My Love - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- So What's New? - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- The Work Song - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Casino Royale - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
- Route 101 - Herb Alpert
- Fandango - Herb Alpert
- Rise - Herb Alpert
- Rotation - Herb Alpert
- Diamonds - Herb Alpert
- Keep Your Eye On Me - Herb Alpert
- Making Love In The Rain - Herb Alpert
Free Music Notes for Definitive Hits
Free Music Review: Most of the best of Herb Alpert's Americachi music
Hit: 5 Stars
Once upon a time Herb Alpert and his partner Jerry Moss created A&M, which was run out of Alpert's garage. Eventually the artist owned label would be producing the records of Joe Cocker, the Carpenters, Cat Stevens, and Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, but the signature sound remained that of Herp Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. In 1965 they had hit singles with "A Taste of Honey" and "Spanish Flea," off of the hit albums "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" and "Going Places." Alpert's most popular album, "What's Now My Love," came out the following year, along with "S.R.O." as his Latin-influenced "Ameriachi" music showed significant longevity with 1968's "Beat of the Brash" being the fifth album to reach the top of the charts. The great irony was that when it came to hit singles, the first one to hit #1 on the Billboard was Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's in Love With You" in which Alpert actually did a vocal.
The Americachi formula is fairly simple: Alpert's trumpet defines the melody over a Latin rhythm section, sometimes with airy wordless vocals by nameless singers. The twenty-songs collected on "Definitive Hits" date from Herb Alpert's first chart success, 1962's "The Lonely Bull (El Solo Torro)" (#6) to a song from 1987, "Making Love in the Rain" (#35). In between we have "The Mexican Shuffle" (#85), "Taste of Honey" (#7), "Whipped Cream" (#68), "Spanish Flea" (#27), "Tijuana Taxi" (#38), "What Now My Love" (#24), "Zorba the Greek" (#11), "The Work Song" (#18), "Casino Royale" (#27), "A Banda" (#35), and "This Guy's in Love With You" (#1). However, some of the songs that did make the charts are not here, such as "Mame" (#19), "Third Man Theme" (#47), "Flamingo" (#28), "Wade in the Water" (#37), "Cabaret" (#72), "My Favorite Things" (#45), and "Without Her" (#63). Consequently, while this is an impressive collection of singles, this is not a comprehensive collection and the fact is that you are not going to get that when you limit yourself to one CD and only twenty tracks. This is to be expected with an artist who had five #1 albums. So you might have several Tijuana Brass albums at home, but a collection like "Definitive Hits" would be a good one for the car (this is really good music to listen to in a traffic jam).
Historically, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass are the most successful instrumental artists between the end of the Big Band era and today. When you look at their competition you are usually talking piano players like Roger Williams and Richard Clayderman, along with orchestras led by the likes of Henry Mancini, Montavani, and Lawrence Welk. But with most of those artists you are talking about elegant and sophisticated covers of songs associated with others (Mancini being the exception that proves the rule here). Alpert did write a few of the songs that made the charts, but none of them are included here. However, with most of these songs these are the versions you hear when you think of "A Taste of Honey" or "Spanish Flea." Of course, those songs will make you think of "The Dating Game," because that was the intro music for the bachelor, while "Whipped Cream" was the intro music for the bachelorette (remember the album cover and the connection is obvious), and the intro music for the date was "Lollipops and Roses."
Definitive Hits Poster
In an era when elaborate wordplay and adventurous production were the order of the day, Herb Alpert made an impact barely uttering a word or breaking a mold, other than expanding the commercial parameters for pop instrumentalists. Dashing trumpeter Alpert and his Tijuana Brass scored five top-20 hits between 1962 (when "The Lonely Bull" climbed to No. 11 in the U.S.) and 1968 (when the vocal-driven "This Guy's in Love with You" cracked the top 10), racking up five No. 1 albums over the same period. The group's patented "Ameriachi" sound made up in south-of-the-border sprightliness what it lacked in innovation; the likes of "Spanish Flea" and "Casino Royale" possessed the kind of unshakable hooks that fit perfectly on top-40 radio sandwiched between Nancy Sinatra and the Mamas & the Papas. This 20-track overview serves up 13 selections from the Tijuana Brass's heyday and is rounded up with seven Alpert solo selections, including comeback hits from 1979 ("Rise") and '87 ("Diamonds"). --Steven StolderJazz Music CDs
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