Jazz.FM adds more detail about the impact of Bacharach’s iconic sound. Things get underway with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass‘ performance of the fast-paced main title, which features the usual Bacharach mix of pop phrasing and complex arrangements.” He was- and still is-a truly great American musician and arranger.AllMusic reports on the theme from Casino Royale: “ Burt Bacharach appropriately comes up with a rambunctious soundtrack for the 1967 James Bond spoof, Casino Royale.

Your father’s idea of cool, perhaps, but the motherfucker was a gangsta businessman, too, raking in millions selling crate-loads of Carpenters, Cat Stevens, Sting, Janet Jackson, Supertramp and Peter Frampton albums.īut divorced of any of that, the very fine music of Herb Alpert stands the test of time admirably. Not unfairly he is considered somewhat of a “show biz” performer of the “easy listening” variety, but he produced some of the most iconic and pleasing pieces of instrumental pop music of the 1960s, at times outselling even the Beatles and shifting some 70 million albums.īest of all? He co-owned the record label (Alpert is the “A” in A&M Records, the “M” is his business partner, Jerry Moss). 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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