Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Herb Alperts Ninth '1967

Tracks list

Tracklist

1	A Banda
2	My Heart Belongs To Daddy
3	The Trolley Song
4	The Happening
5	Bud
6	Love So Fine
7	The Love Nest
8	With A Little Help From My Friends
9	Flea Bag
10	Cowboys And Indians
11	Carmen

The cover art of Herb Alperts Ninth is hilarious -- a bust of grim old Beethoven
wearing a Herb Alpert sweatshirt, a parody of the pop icon fad going around at
the time and maybe a comment on the rock worlds newfound pretensions in the wake
of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper. In any case, Herb Alperts Ninth does introduce some
highbrow pretensions of sorts to Alperts Ameriachi sound -- some very subtly
applied strands of strings on several numbers and a madcap, multi-sectioned
fantasy of tunes from Bizets Carmen that is full of in-jokes from the opera and
the TJBs hits. Alpert is also quite aware of the brave new world around him; he
does a spare, lazy, yet entirely novel-sounding cover version of Sgt. Peppers
With a Little Help from My Friends and gives the Supremes The Happening a bouncy
workout. There is also a touching memorial to the late Ervan Coleman (Bud) and
another underrated contribution from the Alpert songwriting team, Sol Lakes
swinging Cowboys and Indians. the TJB still churns out the Latin American
rhythms, but sometimes with a shade less exuberance.

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