His songs were played during The Dating Game and Alpert frequently appeared on the most staid and middle-of-the-road TV variety shows. If your parents went to Vegas, they might’ve come back with a tale of seeing a fiery set by the Tijuana Brass.Įven if Herb Alpert was pretty cool, he was still your dad’s generation’s idea of “cool” (or perhaps your grandfather’s by this point). Suave and good-looking, the dapper and charismatic trumpet player provided the perfect soundtrack to the archetypal bullfight poster-clad swinging bachelor pad of the 1960s-not to mention a James Bond movie. Maybe you noticed this too? It was a hard one to to miss! ![]() In record stores, in every garage sale, and most probably in your father’s record collection. ![]() When I was young, copies of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass‘s chart-topping album Whipped Cream & Other Delights could be found nearly everywhere you looked. WHIPPED CREAM, BULLFIGHTS, JAMES BOND, TIJUANA TAXIS & OTHER DELIGHTS: A TASTE OF HERB ALPERT
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