If you ever find yourself at one of the Casa du Borghese's Christmas cock-a-tail hours, you're most likely to hear the snappy styling of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. I trace my eclectic Christmas music taste to my childhood to my grandparents, who gave me my love of the nostalgic old songs, and my parents, with jazzier and more cocktail sounding offerings. They had some albums they'd pull out every year, by artist I hadn't heard of anywhere else. So, the old vintage classics and the obscure were often heard at the adult parties, and one of them was Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass...which was played today while I had three friends in for some nips yesterday for happy hour.......
I love the burlesque-like ending to "Jingle Bell Rock".
ReplyDeleteLove Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Love his arrangements. All his music is so upbeat, and his sound is original, so you can't fail to recognize his band as soon as you hear it. One of the most popular sounds of the sixties. I need an invite to the next happy hour!
ReplyDeleteAnd I can just see you in your go-go boots, with your famous shoulder shimmies and hip what what's.
ReplyDeleteBoy...do THESE bring back fond memories. I recall in the 1960s when I was teen that my mom used to love Herb Alpert and the TJB. She would play this entire album over and over and attentively listen to the acapella portions of the songs. I learned how to harmonize by doing the same thing. Rich harmony in the acapella style is what I love and its richness will always delight me and make me think of my late mother.
ReplyDeleteThank your mother for introducing you to this terrific music! And keeping it alive.
REALLY great, snappy arrangements! I'm going along with my finger cymbals.
ReplyDeleteThis made my day. My Christmas lights on my trailer didn't work. It’s so upsetting. I leave them up all year, so they should be in excellent working order! There’s must be a loose bulb somewhere, or my outlet is blown. I just ran an extension cord from the battery of my neighbor’s 1986 Plymouth Volare’
XO and one for Jesus
Miss R
Miss R, did you try the one switch?
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I owned this album in one format or another (8trak,album, cassette, CD) for decades and it's a great departure from the standard Christmas fare. Good memories, and even William would listen to it.
ReplyDeleteThe perfect music for a happily raucous Christmas party!
Feliz Navidad!
ReplyDeleteThe Bell That Couldn't Jingle is one of my favorite songs of the season and a under rated Christmas song and rarely heard during Christmas. God forbid anything cut into Mariah's screaming.
ReplyDeleteI can just picture the scene there.
Herb Alpert was a good looking lad back in the day
ReplyDeleteMy parents had Herb Alpert albums. I used to really enjoy them.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great selection of holiday classics.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom and Dad were such Herb Alpert fans and listened to a lot of his music.
ReplyDeleteI may be wrong, but he may have started my long infatuation with Hispanic men and ended married to a trumpet-playing Latino!
Hmmmmmm.yes....I do believe I see a connection there toots.
DeleteSimply lovely, dear. I would love to see the houseboys dancing about to these. Herb was a regular Saturday music selection while cleaning house when I was a child. My mother, when not in a rage, would do this funny dance. I wish I still had that stereo cabinet... it was so cool and I remember, as I tiny child, thinking it was magic.
ReplyDeleteYes......my parent had that stero cabinet too!!!!! It's was big, the turntable part dropped down and the speakers would open up on hinges on but sides...and a instant party comensed.
DeleteMy Mom was a Herb Alpert addict... never stopped playing his records.
ReplyDeleteTheir used to be a place..in NJ I believe called the Latin Casino, where my parents used to go. They sea him perform their a few times..among many others.
DeleteNow if we could get that very hot eye candy from the candy shop from Saturday dancing to these...that would be even more fun!
ReplyDeleteIt's Christmas now alright!
ReplyDeleteI had an aunt who was totally into them. For me, a little goes a long way.
ReplyDeleteThese are great listening at my desk today! I wanna get up and dance! My coworkers want to me turn up the volume.
ReplyDeleteSo much fun!
ReplyDeleteI love lounge music from the fifties and sixties! I actually have two of Herb Alpert records. The one with the lady covered in cream? Yep.
XOXO
J'adore Herb Alpert! [Although not so much his Xmas stuff.] Spanish Flea, Tijuana Taxi, - and his 1979 hit Rise. Love 'em all! Jx
ReplyDelete...and an honourable mention, of course, for his rendition of that Bacharach and David standard This Guy's In Love With You, of course. Jx
DeleteAll excellent choices!!! I see another cocktail happy hour perhaps.
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