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- Date Released: November 1, 1968
- Genre: Soundtracks/Other
- Style: Holiday
- Label: Shout! Factory
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We Say...
The year was 1968, and superstar trumpeter Herb Alpert rode higher than ever with his chart-topping rendition of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's devastatingly shy "This Guy's in Love With You." So Alpert, a Jew, donned a fake Santa beard and applied the equally ersatz Latin sparkle of his Tijuana Brass to a campy collection of Christmas classics where nearly every song sounds like his hit "Spanish Flea." This is a good thing! West Coast jazz pioneer Shorty Rogers swings by with a studio choir to hang some vocal tinsel on Alpert's delightfully garish tree: Check how his serene choral interludes in "My Favorite Things" contrast with Alpert's holiday shopper bustle. The very year, the horn man couldn't get a hit, and wouldn't for another decade. Who says ol' Saint Nick doesn't have a vindictive streak?
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They Say...
Herb Alpert turned to jazz's Shorty Rogers -- then toiling in the L.A. film and TV studios -- for voice and string arrangements on his Christmas album, and Rogers in turn went all out for schmaltz. Rogers' cooing voices introduce several of the tunes, whereupon the Tijuana Brass do their mostly unrelated Ameriachi thing familiar from past albums. Indeed, "Las Mananitas" seems to have been lifted from an obscure B-side of a 45 and overdubbed with the Rogers treatment. Jingling bells is a recurring song theme -- first with "Jingle Bells," then the cloying "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle," and ultimately "Jingle Bell Rock." For the first time in a long time, Alpert's sense of pacing occasionally goes awry; "My Favorite Things" nearly comes apart in the silences and piano/vocal interlude between the TJB grooves, and "Sleigh Ride" screeches to a dead halt. And yet time and further exposure has revealed this record's homey charms, which no doubt is one reason why it continues to be available on CD where other TJB best-sellers have fallen by the wayside.
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| 01. |  |
Winter Wonderland
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3:02 |
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| 02. | |
Jingle Bells |
3:07 |
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| 03. | |
My Favorite Things
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3:01 |
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| 04. | |
The Christmas Song
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3:37 |
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| 05. | |
Las Mañanitas
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2:56 |
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| 06. | |
Sleigh Ride
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3:55 |
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| 07. | |
The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
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2:53 |
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| 08. | |
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
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3:41 |
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| 09. | |
Jingle Bell Rock
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1:59 |
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| 10. | |
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
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3:12 |
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10 Total Tracks, 31:23 Total Length
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