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Author Topic: Tijuana Brass music finally available on CD Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-08-2005 02:15 PM                        This isn't video related, but it's momentous enough that I thought it deserved a post here since there are a few Herb Alpert fans in the group. The music of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, out of print for years, is beginning to see the light of day on CD starting this week. The first wave of new releases came out today (Feb. 8) with the albums "The Lonely Bull" and "South of the Border." A third CD with rare-unreleased songs, "Lost Treasures," also came out today. The TJB's most famous album, "Whipped Cream and Other Delights," comes out in April. The rest of the band's albums will be released throughout the next two years, two or three albums at a time, on the Shout!Factory label. Some of the band's albums were released on CD in the early '80s with crappy packaging and sound, and have been selling for upwards of $100 or more apeice on eBay in the past few years. The new releases are remastered and come with detailed packaging. Some of you young whippersnappers may not remember the Brass or the impact they had on this country in the '60s, but they were probably the biggest thing going, second only to the Beatles, during that time. Their music hasn't really dated much at all and is still great fun to listen to today.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-08-2005 02:54 PM                     Very cool  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-08-2005 03:38 PM                     I have their greatest hits on cd, and nothing, and I do mean NOTHING makes for better intermission music.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-08-2005 04:12 PM                     Tijuana Brass on that A&M label...I still have the records! They definatey had a "sound" to them.  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-08-2005 04:51 PM                     Will any of these have two versions of "Rise"...one played at 33 and one at 45?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-08-2005 06:41 PM                        James - No, but the Shout!Factory press release says that all of Herb Alpert's albums (with the TJB and solo) will eventually be released. Somewhere around 25 albums in total.  |  IP: Logged Luciano Brigite Master Film Handler Posts: 277 From: Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-08-2005 08:14 PM                     That's something I'll surely look for around here. My father used to listen to Herb Alpert and TJB,I was a kid at the time ,grew up listening to it.The records,2 of them are still around somewhere. Recently I got a CD called Herb Alpert-definitive hits.better than nothing for the time..After switching the entire sound system at home, a good music is now called for!  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-08-2005 09:56 PM                        Those albums were generally very well recorded, without being over-produced. Very clean sound.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-08-2005 10:06 PM                     quote: David Stambaugh Those albums were generally very well recorded, without being over-produced. Very clean sound. Yes they sounded VERY good in general because Herb Alpert was the A in A&M rescords!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-08-2005 10:52 PM                     Much of Herb's music can be heard on Standard, Swing and Big Band stations (usually AM). For those who collect vinyl, Tucson has one of the premiere stores in the country: PDQ Records and Tapes on Grant Rd. Cheers Kutler  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-09-2005 12:50 AM                        It shows how much musical tastes vary. I like a lot of the music Mike Blakesley likes, but the Tijuana Brass aggravated & annoyed me to a degree matched only by their elevator music contemporaries Percy Faith and Lenny Dee. When all that stuff disappeared from the airwaves, it was like a great holy enema had come & cleansed the world. As instrumentals, they hung on FOREVER, 10+ years, longer than the span of their popularity or endurability, because of some incompetent radio disc jockeys who were incapable of backtiming to the top of the hour news would just play any instrumental & fade it out; also as instrumentals they hung around past their date of popular enjoyment as background music in radi & TV commercials, background office music, "Easy Listening" elevator music radio stations, etc. Who in the world could sit there & endure "Spanish Flea" one more time when they could just give the radio knob one quick spin & get a station that played Booker T & The MG's, King Curtis, & Wilson Pickett & Sam & Dave besides? I will admit to liking the TJB's "Casino Royale" a LOT, but the rest of it is just goop! Okay, the Tijuana Brass music is finally available on CD, but so is The Salsoul Orchestra! Torture yourself with either one, but don't take us with you!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-09-2005 02:53 AM                        They sold over 75 million records. I doubt this was all caused by incompetent radio DJs.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-09-2005 06:25 AM                        Pthbbbt.... 75 million albums, if you measure how good the music is by album sales, Herb Albert would rank about 23 levels of hell below the New Kids On The Block. The part about the incompetent disc jockeys just referred to those guys who couldn't backtime still playing instrumentals like the TB for a DECADE after they'd fallen off the charts, making it just impossible to get away from "Spanish Flea", "The Happy Organ", "Theme From A Summer Place In Hell", etc.  |  IP: Logged Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-09-2005 05:25 PM                     Baja Mariba band was another one of those bands signed on the A & M label and had the MOR type. I have a ton of LP and 45's of the Tijana Band. Tijuana Taxi tickled my funny bone (HOOOONNNKKK!)  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-09-2005 06:28 PM                        Yup, the Baja Marimba Band was awesome as well, although not as well known. TJB's "Lost Treasures" is a great collection of tunes. Fans should check it out for sure.  |  IP: Logged

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