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Definitive Hits
by: Herb Alpert

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0606949088620
Label: Polydor Group
Manufacturer: Polydor Group
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor Group
Release Date: June 11, 2001
Running Time: 70 minutes
Studio: Polydor Group
Sales Rank: 3388
MPN: 490886

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Description:
Before his run at the top of the easy-listening charts, Herb Alpert was already a music-industry veteran, writing and producing hits for Sam Cooke and Jan & Dean. Alpert also deserves a place in history as co-founder and owner of A&M Records, one of the most successful independent labels of all time. A solid 20-track compilation spanning Alpert's career, DEFINITIVE HITS covers the trumpeter/singer/label executive's glory years--the 1961-'68 stretch between "The Lonely Bull" and the Burt Bacharach-penned vocal showcase "This Guy's in Love with You". However, it also conveniently gathers material from the post-Tijuana Brass period when Alpert specialised in easy-listening fusion hits like the disco-tinged jazz-funk of 1979's "Rise" and the adult-contemporary R&B of 1987's "Diamonds", which features A&M Records' then-new star Janet Jackson on lead vocals. But, of course, the real meat of the collection is the brilliantly arranged suburban exotica of "Spanish Flea", "A Taste of Honey", and "Whipped Cream", along with other fine examples of Alpert's Latin-tinged pop.

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- Sunshine in music form
I love Herb Alpert. The best known stuff on this album are the likes of the superlatively bouncy Spanish Flea, the sublime A Taste of Honey, the energetic Tijuana Taxi, Tetris theme Zorba the Greek and of course the theme to the original Casino Royale (the one with David Niven) which is so clever it hurts. But there's nothing on this album that doesn't delight.

Mostly it's instrumental, brass band work and very good brass it is. Like a Mariachi band. It's jolly and fun, and it gets me in a good mood and that makes it pretty fab stuff.

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- Happy Childhood Memories
I was delighted to get hold of this album, which I did via Amazon in the U.S.

Playing this Herb Alpert and his hits CD, particularly the sixties inclusions, has brought back much nostalgia and happiness, as his is the sort of music that used to boom out of my mum and dad's tinny transistor radio at home about 30+ years ago when I was a small(very small) child!!

The album is beautifully presented, with reminiscences by Herb on the sleeve notes, about each of the 20 included tracks, and pictures of each HA and Tijuana Brass album they originally came from. Sound quality is first-rate, I assume most of the earlier tunes, being digitally enhanced to suit modern ears?

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- We have waited so long ... Herb Alpert has been forgotten.
Wow! At long last a new Herb Alpert CD back in the shops. I have searched half the world's record shops for anything other than a bargain bin copy of Titjuana Brass, and it's sad to report that most record shops these days have a whole new generation of staff that have never even heard of the man. This new "Greatest Hits" album goes a long way to make up for Herb Alpert's now sadly long deleted back catalogue; it's just a shame it doesn't offer more. Surely a 2cd or 4cd set would have done us proud? Most of the album concentrates on the old brassy lounge/lift music period, which is fine if you're that way inclined, but once the strains of "Rise" and "Rotation" come up you want to cry out loud: "Herb Alpert, where the hell are you now?" Please come ... Read More:

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