Title: Herb Alpert's Ninth Artist: Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass Label: Herb Alpert Presents Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 814647020471 Genre: Jazz Release Date: 2016-09-09 Number of Discs: 1
Herb Alpert's Ninth is a 1967 album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. It reached number 4 on the Billboard charts and spent 18 weeks on the Top 40.[1] It was the last album by the Tijuana Brass to be released in both mono and stereo versions; all albums afterward would be released in stereo only. - It was, as it's title indicated, the ninth album released by the Brass. It's cover, in addition to a number of still photos from Brass concerts, included a pop-culture joke. Ludwig van Beethoven had been a popular topic on T-shirts in the late 1960s. In this case, an illustration of Beethoven was shown apparently wearing a T-shirt with Alpert's face on it. The title was also a play on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. None of Beethoven's Ninth actually appeared in the album tracks, but another classical work did - a medley of the tunes from the opera Carmen, centering on "Habanera", and also including "cameos" from some of the group's earlier hits - "Spanish Flea", "A Taste of Honey", "Whipped Cream", "What Now My Love", "Zorba The Greek" and "Tijuana Taxi" - worked into the track.
Tracks: 1.1 A Banda (Chico Buarque de Hollanda) - 2:10 1.2 My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Cole Porter) - 2:00 1.3 The Trolley Song (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) - 2:39 1.4 The Happening (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr., Frank Devol) - 2:26 1.5 'Bud' (Ervan Bud Coleman, Eleanor Coleman) - 3:38 1.6 Love So Fine (Tony Asher, Roger Nichols) - 2:14 1.7 The Love Nest (Otto Harbach, Louis Hirsch) - 1:59 1.8 With a Little Help from My Friends (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 2:38 1.9 Flea Bag (Julius Wechter) - 2:04 1.10 Cowboys and Indians (Sol Lake) - 2:52 1.11 Carmen (Georges Bizet, Arranged By Alpert ; Peter Matz) - 3:39
