TRINI IN LONDON

Original Released on LP Reprise R-6238 (1967)

TRINI LOPEZ and LONDON go together like MINI SKIRTS and BIRDS. They're naturals. London, now the Crown City of What's Happening, is being immortalized by groups, by boutiques, by films, by everything this side of sliced bread, which is next. It's little wonder that Trini's most electrically alive LP was plugged and perfomed two miles deep in Chelsea.

Trini had been in London filming his costarring role in "The Dirty Dozen". He'd also been America's most dashing export to London since World War II. A natural night-lifer, Trini took on London bigger than anyone since Catherine of Anjou. He took London, turned it upside down, and shook out all its goodness-with-a-twist-of-rye.

Part of any such wild times in London had to be a wild new album. Trini's longtime collaborater in the record world, producer-arranger Don Costa, jetted over to London (who takes a boat?) to set up the sessions.

Anyone who suspects that London musicians balance teacups on their guitars will quickly undergo a blown mind after sampling this session. The rhythm, the drive, the excitement in "Trini Lopez in London" more than equals any of his domestic product.

Maybe it was a refreshing surrounding that did it. Maybe Trini, like the rest of London, was just a little bit more switched on.

Whatever happened... it happened.

(Original liner notes)