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Topic: Tijuana Brass music finally available on CD
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Mike Blakesley
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Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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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.
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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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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!
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