Herb Alpert - Very Best of Herb Alpert
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Artist: Herb AlpertEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1991-09-30
Music Label: A&M Int'l
Soundtracks:
- The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)
- A Taste Of Honey
- Tijuana Taxi
- Spainsh Flea
- Zorba The Greek
- What Now My Love
- Casino Royale
- This Guy's In Love With You
- Without Her
- Jerusalem
- Rise
- Rotation
- Keep Your Eye On Me
- Diamonds
- Jump Street
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Free Music Review: Clearly There Are Varying Opinions As To What Defines "Very Best"
Hit: 3 Stars
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass had 26 Billboard Pop Hot 100 hits and Herb added another 14 as a solo singer between 1962 and 1987. Most crossed over to the Adult Contemporary (AC) charts, where he added another 12 which did not make the Hot 100, in addition to seven more that made only the R&B charts. That's a lot of hit singles for the man who also holds the record for being the ONLY artist to have a # 1 Hot 100 with both a vocal [This Guy's In Love With You in 1968], and an instrumental [Rise in 1979].
So, when you see someone putting out a 15-track compilation blaring "The Very Best Of" you might reasonably expect to see the top 15 in terms of his hits. Not even close, although it starts off great with The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro), his first hit which made it to # 6 Hot 100 late in 1962 billed to The Tijuana Brass Featuring Herb Alpert, followed by A Taste Of Honey which reached # 1 AC/# 7 in the fall of 1965 as by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.
Zorba The Greek [# 2 AC/# 11 Hot 100 in January 1966] is another of the very best of Herb and the TJB, as are Tijuana Taxi [Zorba's flipside and a # 9 AC/# 38 Hot 100 on its own], What Now My Love/Spanish Flea [# 2 AC/# 24 Hot 100 and #4 AC/# 27 Hot 100 respectively in May 1966], and Casino Royale [# 1 AC/# 27 Hot 100 in May 1967].
But then, by that reckoning, what about The Work Song [2 AC/# 18 Hot 100 in August 1966], Flamingo [# 5 AC/# 28 Hot 100 in October 1966], Mame [# 2 AC/# 19 Hot 100 in December 1966], The Happening [# 4 AC/# 32 Hot 100 in August 1967], and A-Banda [# 1 AC/# 35 Hot 100 in October 1967]? Two of these were better hits than the four mentioned, and all were ahead of Tijuana Taxi in terms of chart positions.
The same applies to several of his solo efforts. Also, the liner notes are skimpy - 33 lines written by Bob Garcia in 1991 appear in large print in the over-sized fold-out insert. On the reverse are numerous photographs of Herb and the group.
The sound reproduction is excellent, but it seems to me high time we get a truly definitive Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass compendium delivered by an outfit that knows how to go about arranging such a collections - such as Varese-Sarabande, Ace Records of London, Rhino, or Eric Records.
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Polt-Tel Label Compilation Includes all of Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' Chart-Toppers, Grammy Winners and Definitive Best. The Recording Spans the Years 1962 to 1991 and CD Booklet Opens Up to a Mini-Poster-Sized Photomontage. Featuring the Alpert Staples "Rise", "Lonely Bull (Toro Solo)", "Zorba the Greek" and More.Latin Music Music CDs
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