Trini Lopez - Trini Lopez at PJ's
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Free Music Review: You Won't be Disappointed
Hit: 5 Stars
I first learned about this record when I heard LaBamba in a restaurant juke box in 1969. I went around to all the local record stores looking for it. I finally found it. I already had the single of "If I Had a Hammer", so I knew at least 2 songs. I loved the entire album. In 2001 Collectors' Choice music released it on CD, of course I got it.
I always thought Trini was underrated. He made some fantastic music. According to Joel Whitburn's Top Adult Contemporary hits 1961-2001, Trini was
#152 out of the best 200 artists.
Free Music Review: Trini Lopez
Hit: 5 Stars
This Cd is Great! I grew up listening to this " record" and I remember taking it to parties with me! Hearing it on Cd just brings back such wonderful memories of the 60's and 70's for me. Bye Bye Blackbird was always a favorite
of mine where I could really sing out! It was well worth the wait from Amazon.
Free Music Review: TRINI LOPEZ( recorded live) AT PJ'S
Hit: 5 Stars
In my opinion this was Trini Lopez most popular album of his entire career. Recorded live in 1962 during one of Trini's memorable performances at PJs in Texas, and released by Frank Sinatra's "Reprise" label, this CD a must have for all Trini Lopez and rock music (with tex-mex music influence) fans. In my opinion, the crown jewels of this recorded live performance are definitely the old time hit classics "America" and "If I Had a Hammer". This album includes its original Lp cover and also offers memorable bonus tracks which makes its purchase mandatory for all those of us who remember listening and dancing to it when it was released during 1963 and long after that. Its a wonderful thing that those who think likewise released it on CD format therefore making it possible for us to keep enjoying it today.Free Music Review: TRINI AT PJ'S STANDS THE TEST OF TIME
Hit: 5 Stars
All the tracks on this CD stand the test of time.
They bring back the simplier times of the 60's and let us know how bad the music is today.
This CD brings back the good music.
Free Music Review: "If I Had a Hammer" makes Trini Lopez a folk singing star
Hit: 5 Stars
With the release of this album in April 1963 Trini Lopez became one of the more unusual singing stars of the Folk Revival. "Trini Lopez at PJ's" made it to #2 on the Billboard charts and stayed in the Top 40 for about a year while the single "If I Had a Hammer" became Lopez's first hit. Lopez was actually the singer and guitar player for a folk trio that had Dick Brant on bass and Mickey Jones on drums. A key part of this album is that it is a live performance, which played to Lopez's strengths as an infectious and likeable performer. Not that Lopez was an overnight sensation. Buddy Holly had tried to get Lopez signed with his label, but prejudice against his ethnicity killed that deal and it was not until Frank Sinatra signed Lopez to his personal label, Reprise, that Lopez was able to record his first album under his own name.Lopez's reputation as a folk singer was made on the strength of "If I Had a Hammer," which eventually sold five million copies and made it to #1 in over two-dozen countries around the world. A fair share of the songs here are indeed folk songs, such as as "This Land Is Your Land" and his medley of "Gotta Travel On" and "Down by the Riverside," but Lopez also plays on his Latin heritage by doing "A-Me-Ri-Ca" from "West Side Story," his own versions of "La Bamba" (the song that greets you at Lopez's official website), "Cielito Lindo," and "Granada." He even throws in a little Ray Charles by covering "What'd I Say." The common denominator for all these songs is Lopez's high energy.
Hoping to repeat the instant success of this album a second LP, "More Trini Lopez at PJ's" came out in August of that year, but it represents more of a shift away from folk and towards rock. Trini Lopez is one of those artists where his best album was the first one, and if you pick up anything beyond one of his better hits collections this would be the album.