Sounds Like

by Herb Alpert, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

Overview

For one week in June 1967, Sounds Like was able to break the Monkees' 31-week hammerlock on the number one slot on the charts -- just two weeks before the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper took over and changed the world. This shows, lest you forget -- and many have -- just how popular Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were, still spanning the generations during the Summer of Love, still putting out records as fresh and musical and downright joyous as this one. Though not as jazz-flavored as S.R.O., Sounds Like does preserve the feeling, particularly in the extended vamps on an updated slave song, "Wade in the Water" (a hit single). "Gotta Lotta Livin' to Do" settles you into the record with nothing but a long vamp -- a daring production decision. Yet Alpert was on a roll; everything he tried in the TJB's heyday seemed to work. The lesser-known tunes back-loaded on side two are a string of pearls -- John Pisano's appropriately titled bossa nova "The Charmer," Roger Nichols' tense "Treasure of San Miguel," Ervan Coleman's catchy "Miss Frenchy Brown." Finally, Alpert takes a flyer and concludes the LP with an extravagant Burt Bacharach orchestration of his theme from the film Casino Royale -- an artifact of '60s pop culture, to be sure, but still a perfectly structured record. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Product Details

Release Date:	09/09/2016
Label:	Herb Alpert Presents
UPC:	0814647020433
Rank:	28074

Tracks

1. Gotta Lotta Livin' to Do
2. Lady Godiva
3. Bo-Bo
4. Shades of Blue
5. In a Little Spanish Town
6. Wade in the Water
7. Town Without Pity
8. The Charmer
9. Treasure of San Miguel
10. Miss Frenchy Brown
11. Casino Royale

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass   Primary Artist
Herb Alpert   Primary Artist,Trumpet
John Pisano   Guitar
Bob Edmondson   Trombone
Nick Ceroli   Drums

Technical Credits

Jerry Moss   Audio Production,Producer
Herb Alpert   Audio Production,Liner Notes,Composer,Producer,Arranger
Ervan Coleman   Composer
Roger Nichols   Composer
Al Quattrocchi   Art Direction
Aaron Kahan   Design
Julee Stover   Editorial Supervision
Jeff Smith   Art Direction
Charlie Mills   Composer
Shawn Amos   Project Supervisor
Sol Lake   Composer
Lee Adams   Composer
Bernie Grundman   Remastering
Bob Edmondson   Composer
Larry Levine   Engineer
John Pisano   Composer
Joe Young   Composer
Sam M. Lewis   Composer
Ned Washington   Composer
Mike Leander   Composer
Gordon Mills   Composer
Josh Kun   Liner Notes
Derek Dressler   Project Assistant
Burt Bacharach   Composer
Jeff Palo   Package Supervision
George Jerman   Photography
Julius Wechter   Composer
Dimitri Tiomkin   Composer
John Roberts   Artwork
Mabel Wayne   Composer
Charles Strouse   Composer
Hal David   Composer