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| Released | December 1963 | |||
| Genre | Easy listening, pop | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss | |||
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Volume 2 is the second album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, known in this recording as "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass". It was released in 1963 on A&M Records, and sold poorly upon initial release.
After the Tijuana Brass became massively popular with hits from their later albums, Volume 2 was reissued in 1966 and eventually reached No. 17 on the Billboard album chart. A CD version of the album was issued by A&M Records in 1990 but is now out of print. Some LP copies of the album have a spoken introduction by Herb Alpert at the beginning of "The Great Manolete (La Virgen de la Macarena)".
It was made available digitally for download in February 2007 at the same time as the reissues of the 1969 albums Warm and The Brass Are Comin'. No CD reissue of Volume 2 was available for years, as Alpert reportedly felt that the album was of inferior technical quality.[ citation needed ] On September 9, 2016, Volume 2, along with 23 of Herb's other albums, was reissued on CD on the Herb Alpert Presents label.
As with The Lonely Bull , the album features some songs with a very Mexican flavor, but with more cover versions of pop hits than were included in that first album, "Spanish Harlem" having been a recent success for Ben E King. "Green Leaves of Summer" was the theme for the film portrayal of the famous Mexican–Texan battle in The Alamo . "Winds of Barcelona" would be reorchestrated as "El Presidente" on the Brass' next album, South of the Border . [1] "Swinger From Seville" is a "strip-tease" tune, complete with audio of cries like "take-it-off" from a raucous audience. The song stands in contrast to the leadoff song, "La Virgen de la Macarena", the traditional title given to "Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza" (Our Lady of Hope) (or Mary, the mother of Jesus)... in Seville, Spain. The Brass' rendition of "A-me-ri-ca" begins with a bar of "Jingle Bells" as a prelude to a jazzy version of the West Side Story entry that gives no hint of that song's outspoken lyrics.
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
In a retrospective review for Allmusic, music critic Richard S. Ginell wrote the album tried to duplicate the appeal of Alpert's first album. "Alpert is beginning to expand his reach beyond Baja, California without losing the ambience of "The Lonely Bull," sharpening his skills as a producer and exploring other moods and rhythms." [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Great Manolete (La Virgen de la Macarena)" | Alpert | 2:35 |
| 2. | "Spanish Harlem" | Jerry Leiber, Phil Spector | 2:52 |
| 3. | "Swinger from Seville" | Alpert | 2:30 |
| 4. | "Winds of Barcelona" | Sol Lake | 2:20 |
| 5. | "Green Leaves of Summer" | Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster | 2:30 |
| 6. | "More" | Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero | 2:28 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "America" | Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim | 2:45 |
| 2. | "Surfin' Señorita" | Jerry Moss, Alpert | 2:07 |
| 3. | "Marching Thru Madrid" | Sol Lake | 2:30 |
| 4. | "Crea Mi Amor (Believe My Love)" | Sol Lake | 2:27 |
| 5. | "Mexican Corn" | Bowman-Alpert | 2:05 |
| 6. | "Milord" | Marguerite Monnot | 2:17 |
Herb Alpert is an American trumpeter who led the Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the Billboard 200 chart, five of which became No. 1 albums; he has had 14 platinum albums and 15 gold albums. Alpert is the only musician to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist and an instrumentalist.
Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez, known as Manolete, was a Spanish bullfighter.
The Lonely Bull, released in 1962, is the debut album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.
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South of the Border is the third album by American easy listening brass band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, originally released in 1964. The name of the group, for this album, is "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass".
What Now My Love is the sixth album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, released in 1966. It remained at #1 on the Billboard Album chart for nine weeks, the longest of any album released by the group.
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Julius Wechter was an American musician and composer who played the marimba and vibraphone. He also played various percussion instruments. He composed the song "Spanish Flea" for Herb Alpert and was leader of The Baja Marimba Band.
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"The Lonely Bull " is a song by Sol Lake recorded by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass among others. The song was the title track to the album The Lonely Bull, released in December 1962. The Herb Alpert single represents the first release on A&M Records. Its original title was "Twinkle Star".
"Mexico" is the title of a 1961 instrumental recording by American bassist, orchestra leader, and Rockabilly Hall of Fame member Bob Moore. The song was written by Boudleaux Bryant. Moore was a noted session musician in the 1950s and 1960s who worked with Elvis Presley, Pat Boone, Roy Orbison, and Brenda Lee, among others.
Although its actual release date was 1986, Classics Volume 1 was the first release of A&M Records' 25th Anniversary Series in 1987. The commemorative series was solely available on digital audio compact disc. Each volume contained the prominent works of a selected A&M artist. Volume 1 was the hits of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. Tracks ranged from their first single, "The Lonely Bull" in 1962, to "Jerusalem" in 1971. All tracks were originally produced by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss.
Fandango is a studio album by American musician Herb Alpert released on A&M Records in April 1982 with catalog number SP-3731.
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The Brass Are Comin' is a 1969 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, the group's 13th release and its last album before disbanding in December 1969. It was the first of the group's albums to not achieve gold certification. However, the album reached No. 30 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Bullish is a 1984 album released by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, though the Tijuana Brass was not involved in its making. The album was reissued in 2017. The music of the album is mostly electro-funk, with Alpert's characteristic trumpet in accompaniment. The album is mostly instrumental, though Lani Hall provides vocals on the track "Maniac". Describing the album in 1984, Alpert said, "I don't think of this as a backward-looking record ... It's very contemporary."
Summertime is a 1971 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It consists of tracks assembled by Alpert's A&M Records label and was released during Alpert's hiatus from performing that occurred between the albums The Brass Are Comin' (1969) and You Smile – The Song Begins (1974).
