Herb Alpert / Tijuana Brass - Beyond Tiki

I ikitnrev Tiki Socialite D.C. / Virginia Joined: Jul 27, 2002 Posts: 1325	I ikitnrev Posted posted on Wed, Apr 6, 2005 6:04 AM Today's paper had a good profile on Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. The first two sentences of the article read ... "Just a few notes from that peppy horn are enough to book you on a first-class nostalgia trip. They take you back to turntable parties in the paneled rec room, tiki torches on the patio, and Dad sporting his groovy new sideburns." Now, I never connected the Tijuana Brass with tiki or tiki torches, but the band was a representative sound of the 60's. One could argues that there was a migration in pop musical tastes from the 'not authentically exotic' sounds of Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman to the 'not aunthentically Mexican' brass sound of the Tijuana Brass. There is lots of information in the article. Herb Alpert appeared in the movie 'The 10 Commandments' - he is playing the drums when Charleton Heston descends from the mountain; and also news that the woman on the cover of 'Whipped Cream and Other Delights' was three months pregnant when that photo was taken. The article can be found here ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28538-2005Apr5.html Vern

Today's paper had a good profile on Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. The first two sentences of the article read ... "Just a few notes from that peppy horn are enough to book you on a first-class nostalgia trip. They take you back to turntable parties in the paneled rec room, tiki torches on the patio, and Dad sporting his groovy new sideburns."

Now, I never connected the Tijuana Brass with tiki or tiki torches, but the band was a representative sound of the 60's. One could argues that there was a migration in pop musical tastes from the 'not authentically exotic' sounds of Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman to the 'not aunthentically Mexican' brass sound of the Tijuana Brass.

There is lots of information in the article. Herb Alpert appeared in the movie 'The 10 Commandments' - he is playing the drums when Charleton Heston descends from the mountain; and also news that the woman on the cover of 'Whipped Cream and Other Delights' was three months pregnant when that photo was taken.

The article can be found here ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28538-2005Apr5.html

Vern

Post #151263 by ikitnrev on Wed, Apr 6, 2005 6:04 AM