TIJUANA'S 6TH ALBUM

Original Released on LP A&M 114/SP 4114 
(US, May 1966)

Produced by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
Arranged by Herb Alpert
Engineered by Larry Levine
Recorded at Gold Star Recording Studios
Album designed by Peter Whorf Graphics
Billboard peak album chart position: 1, 9 weeks (debuted 5/21/66)
Weeks in Top 40 album chart: 141

...«On a personal note, my father's favorite Tijuana Brass song was If I Were A Rich Man from Fiddler On The Roof. My father left Russia alone at the age of 16. His dream was to make enough money so that he could bring his entire family to the United States. He didn't speak english when the ship docked at Ellis Island in 1916, but he found a way to survive and worked hard to finally realize his dream of helping bring his entire family to America. I will always remember him as a gentle, generous and loving man.» - Herb Alpert

With this album, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass settle into their hitmaking groove, the once strikingly eclectic elements of Dixieland, pop, rock, and mariachi becoming more smoothly integrated within Alpert's infectious "Ameriachi" blend. They sound more like a band now; along with Alpert's now-indelibly stamped trumpet sound, we can recognize jazzman John Pisano's distinctive rhythm guitar, Lou Pagani's piano, the droll Bob Edmondson's dulcet trombone, etc. Pisano, who debuted as a composer on Going Places, comes up with a memorably whistleable song "So What's New," and the rest of Alpert's songwriting brigade (Ervan Coleman, Julius Wechter and Sol Lake) chime in with some lively, catchy tunes. There is also an assortment of pop, film, and Broadway standards of the day, all impeccably arranged by Alpert, whose production instincts grew sharper and surer with every release. Result: another hugely entertaining hit LP, one that stayed at number one longer than any other TJB album (nine weeks).