[Harry]

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
...SOUNDS LIKE...
A&M SP-4124


Also released as mono LP-124 and Shout Factory CD 32995

Tracks:

Side One
1. Gotta Lotta Livin' To Do (Strouse-Adams) 2:47
2. Lady Godiva (M. Leander-C. Mills) 2:06
3. Bo-Bo (Sol Lake) 3:04
4. Shades Of Blue (Julius Wechter) 2:44
5. In A Little Spanish Town (Wayne-Lewis-Young) 1:54
6. Wade In The Water (Alpert-Edmondson-Pisano) 3:03

Side Two
1. Town Without Pity (D. Tiomkin-N. Washington) 2:14
2. The Charmer (John Pisano) 2:13
3. Treasure of San Miguel (Roger Nichols) 2:14
4. Miss Frenchy Brown (Ervan Coleman) 2:27
5. Casino Royale (David-Bacharach) 2:35

Credits

Produced by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Arranged by Herb Alpert
Performers: Herb Alpert, Nick Ceroli, Bob Edmondson, Tonni Kalash, Lou Pagani, John Pisano and Pat Senatore
Engineered by Larry Levine, Gold Star Recording Studios
Album Design: Whorf Graphics
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[Mr Bill]

My fave tunes are "Bo-Bo," "Lady Godiva," "and "Miss Frenchy Brown." But the standout track to me is "Treasure of San Miguel." The sweeping majesty of this tune makes it the soundtrack to any adventure film I can imagine. (Okay, the Indiana Jones theme beats it by a little bit). Just turn the sound down during scenes from National Treasure or the Michael Douglas Romancing The Stone films and play "Treasue" behind it and you'll see how well it works!

--Mr Bill

[TonyCurrie]

.......or SOUNDS HAPPY if you prefer......

[Steve Sidoruk]

A&M 840 Wade In The Water b/w Mexican Road Race picture sleeve


A&M 840 Wade In The Water b/w Mexican Road Race


A&M 840 b-side picture sleeve cropped


A&M 850 Casino Royale b/w The Wall Street Rag promo copy


A&M 850 Casino Royale b/w The Wall Street Rag


A&M 850 Casino Royale b/w The Wall Street Rag picture sleeve


A&M 850 Casino Royale b/w The Wall Street Rag picture sleeve b-side


A&M 8511 Casino Royale b/w The Happening A&M Forget Me Nots re-issue 45


A&M SP -424 SOUNDS LIKE Little LP Stereo Jukebox


A&M SP - 424 Little LP Stereo Jukebox title strips

Recording Session Info:

01/30/67 - Gold Star Recording Studio - Lady Godiva, Wade In The Water - Herb Alpert - trumpet, Nick Ceroli - drums, Bud Coleman - mandolin & guitar, Bob Edmondson - trombone, Tonni Kalash - trumpet, Sal Monte - ?, Lou Pagani - piano, John Pisano - guitar, Pat Senatore - bass, Julius Wechter - marimba.

02/22/67 - Colgems - Casino Royale - Herb Alpert - trumpet, Nick Ceroli - drums, Tonni Kalash - trumpet, Sal Monte - ?, Lou Pagani - piano, John Pisano - guitar, Pat Senatore - bass, Julius Wechter - marimba, Jules Chaiken - trumpet, Bill Pitman - guitar, Ernie Tack - trombone, Dave Wells - trombone.

03/06/67 - Gold Star Recording Studios - Gotta Lotta Living To Do - Herb Alpert - trumpet, Nick Ceroli - drums, Bud Coleman - mandolin & guitar, Lou Pagani - piano, John Pisano - guitar, Pat Senatore - bass, Julius Wechter - marimba, Lew McCreary - trombone, Pete Jolly - piano.

03/08/67 - Gold Star Recording Studios - Slick, Town Without Pity, In A Little Spanish Town - Herb Alpert - trumpet, Nick Ceroli - drums, Bud Coleman - mandolin & guitar, Tonni Kalash - trumpet, Sal Monte - ?, Lou Pagani - piano, John Pisano - guitar, Pat Senatore - bass, Julius Wechter - marimba, Lew McCreary - trombone.

No further info.
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[Moritat]

What a great album this is! Not as good as SRO, but close. My chioice was Wade In The Water. In fact this tune, is so good, I would put it up there with Flamingo in a tie for the best TJB song ever. Casino Royale I catagorize as another top 5 best ever song, and its easily my second choice.

Sounds Like has a great opening song, a great lp cover and there really isn't a bad song on the album.

[DAN BOLTON]

This album is a tremendous display of "in-house" talent. Over half of the playlist(if you count Burt Bacharach, and I am) comes from A&M affiliated artists, and it's some of the finest work of each. I can't think of any other TJB album where the locals outshine the standards like they do on this one.


I picked John Pisano's THE CHARMER as my fave, because I think it's one of his best works. It just has a soft, cute vibe.

I think SOUNDS HAPPY is a pretty good name for this album, because it's a very upbeat set coming after the rainy-day vibe of WNML and the driving but rather melancholy SRO.


Dan
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DAN BOLTON

"As much as I love music, I never thought it was my life. I thought it was the vehicle I used to express my life." HERBIE MANN

[audiofile]

The rhythm section reached a climax with this album. This album is so cool!

[Mike Blakesley]

Excellent album for sure. This is the 'peak after the peak' for me...probably my third-favorite TJB album (after GOING PLACES/WARM (always tied for #1) and BEAT OF THE BRASS.

I never saw that "Sounds Happy" cover before...that title doesn't really fit with that melancholy picture of Herb does it.

I'm also surprised that the "little LP" doesn't include "Casino Royale," the big hit from the album.

I notice "Slick" listed among the songs recorded during these sessions. Amazing -- I don't think it'd fit in here or on NINTH, yet it fits in perfectly with the musical environment of BEAT which came two albums later.
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[Harry]

[Mr Bill]

The "?" after Sal Monte's name got me curious. I did a web search and found several Sal Montes. One was a trumpeter who also served as Harry James's manager and continues to manage the James organization. He's also often listed as a "consultant" on numerous James bios, tributes and other media projects relative to Harry James.

There's another Sal Monte who invented a means of bonding organic materials to inporganoic materials, specifically, organic oxide to inorganic polymers (i.e.: recording tape). I doubt that's who this is, unless Gold Star was testing new materials and machines and he was present (though that wouldn't get a musicain credit as far as I can tell).

Anyone else have any ideas?

--Mr Bill

[JO]

[Bobbyvox]

And that it came out before 1970.

[Steve Sidoruk]

[gameenjoyer]

I voted for "In A Little Spanish Town". This album is nice and all, but it and SRO are not exactly my favorites of the TJB era. They just seem too different after the "big three", and I prefer NINTH because it seemed, at least to me, to maybe be a beginning back toward that era. Then again, I'm not a trumpet aficionado like some of you are, so I'm probably wrong about that.

[Mike Blakesley]

I like NINTH too but you can definitely hear Herb's trumpet playing beginning to soften on that album. I sometimes think it's a stylistic thing -- he's playing more casually with just about every release starting with SRO -- but then he had his "burnout" period a couple of years after that, so who knows how much of the change was due to that and how much was intentional.
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[Captain Bacardi]

I remember during the vinyl era (jeez, am I that old now???) I had a hard time finding a clean stereo copy of this album. I had several mono versions, though. As far as a favorite I chose "Wade In The Water" - it just rocked! Lately I've been playing "Gotta Lotta Livin' To Do" a lot, because I love how the rhythm section cooked on this song. "Treasure Of San Miguel" is another fave, especially during the last verse where the trombones play off of the melody. I never could get into "Miss Frenchy Brown" at all, and I have to be in the right mood for "The Charmer", which always makes me feel as if I'm in a department store. At 28 minutes long this album could've used another song.



Capt. Bacardi
...who once paid a lot of money for "Bo-Bo" for some goofy reason...
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[Mike Blakesley]

"Bo-Bo" was the first song I heard from this LP -- via the MUSIC BOX album. At the time this came out, the only TJB albums I owned were GOING PLACES and WHAT NOW MY LOVE...but I was poring over the others in the bins wishing I had the $ to buy another!
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Mike B.

[toeknee4bz]

Simply put, this was the pinnacle of the TJB, IMHO. All I can say is that this album was so good that I couldn't pick an honest favorite track. I picked "... Livin'" just because it's the 1st track, and gets me in the mood to enjoy what I feel to be my absolute favorite TJB album. SOUNDS LIKE Herb, and the TJB, were in full force, and still at the top of their game.

Everything afterward was a wind-down, where Herb was wearing out, getting tired of it all and leading up to the 'quit touring decision' in 1969. As someone else on this thread has put it, "Just my 2 cents..."

Tony
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[JO]

[Dave]

This is one that I truly have mixed feelings for... In fact, I love "Lady Godiva" but somehow I don't come anywhere even close to "pretending to" like "Miss Frenchy Brown"...

However, with "Casino Royale" going on a number of compilations, Herb and TjB alike, and having heard and enjoyed "Bo Bo" a lot more on Music Box Sampler, and even "Wade In The Water" being a Solid Brass obscure treasure, I can simply say, in summing up, that I just, after having a fairly good-playing Stereo copy of this just didn't need the Shout! Factory reissue...

I made the easy leap to Ninth, which, yes, is a dank and sombre follow-up, of this which did serve as a climax in the world of Herb's works between earlier and later albums...



Dave

[Michael Hagerty]

[Mike Blakesley]

That surprised me too. You can definitely hear Julius on the marimba, but I was always under the impression that the rest was Bacharach's studio band. Maybe the TJB members did an experimental backing track that was later left on the cutting room floor?
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[Rudy]

[Harry]

From DEFINITIVE HITS:

Herb Alpert wrote:

[Rudy]

That's where I read it!
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