Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me)

Liner Notes

We’re going to take a little side road along our musical journey for this episode. It’s not something I often do, especially in my youth, but I’m going to make a big deal out of my birthday this year, since it actually falls on a day I publish my episodes.

62 is not a milestone. There is no special celebration with my high school classmates, since next year we’ll be celebrating at our 45-year reunion. In fact, I better get busy and call a meeting since I am currently the chair of the reunion committee.

In that vein, I am going to pull out an album filled with plenty of songs you’ve already heard on this show, but they all appear on this one disk.

I keep circling back to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Back to the music that made my household so much fun to grow up in. Back to an album that was permanently in the To Play pile next to the living room record player.

So, get ready to hear the entire album of music that always went along well with my mom’s lasagna, a house full of friends, and bocce ball in the backyard and help me celebrate with some favorite memories in Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me).

Links to previous spinning My Dad’s Vinyl episodes featuring the TJB:
Volume 6: Herb Alpert Lonely Bull
Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places
Volume 54: Alpert’s Ninth
Volume 98: Whipped Alpert
Volume 129: Brass’ Beat for Father’s Day
Volume 156: Christmas Herb

Video Intro

Listen here or on my PodBean Podcast Episode page:

You can check out the video version here:

Credits and Copyrights:

See information from the Discogs.com page here

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Greatest Hits
Label: A&M Records – SP-4245
Series: Greatest Hits (8)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
Released: 1970
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Latin Jazz

Liner Notes – Charles Champlin
Cover Photography – Jim McCrary
Producer – Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss

Comes in a “UniPak” styled gatefold cover with a inner pocket to house LP.
We will hear all 12 songs in the order they appear.

Lonely Bull
Written-By – Sol Lake
Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964

Spanish Flea
Written-By – Julius Wechter
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

Getting Sentimental Over You
Written-By – George Bassman
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

Love Potion #9 (first time I came across an actress by the name of Sandra Bullock…it’s hilarious.)
Written-By – Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Never On Sunday
Written-By – Billy Towne and Mano Hadjidakis
Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964

Mexican Shuffle
Written-By – Sol Lake
Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964

Taste Of Honey
Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Tijuana Taxi
Written-By – Ervan Coleman
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

South Of The Border
Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr
Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964

America
Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Appeared on America Released in 1969

Whipped Cream
Written-By – Naomi Neville
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Zorba The Greek
Written-By – Mikis Theodorakis
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.