Sounds Like...

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Sounds Like...

Studio album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

Released

August 25 1967

Recorded

1967

Genre

Jazz / Easy Listening / Instrumental Pop

Length

27:21

Label

A&M
A&M 212001

Producer

Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass chronology

S.R.O.
(1966)

Sounds Like...
(1967)

Herb Alpert's Ninth
(1967)

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Sounds Like... Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass is the eighth album released by the popular 1960s instrumental group. The album had its first CD release in 2006 on the Shout!Factory label.

The best-known song on this album is probably the Burt Bacharach composition that was used as the title theme for the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale. According to liner notes in the Shout!Factory CD, the song was originally recorded with a vocal, but Bacharach was dissatisfied with the recording. He sent the tapes to Herb Alpert, who overdubbed some trumpets and some Tijuana Brass instruments (most prominently marimba and percussion) and sent the song back to Bacharach. This version, with the Bacharach orchestra rather than the Brass members providing most of the backing, is the one included on the Sounds Like album.

"In a Little Spanish Town" includes audience participation, which was worked into the stage version of their act in a humorous way. Alpert would ask the audience to clap hands twice at the end of each bar of the chorus. On stage, trombonist Bob Edmondson would attempt to join the hand-clapping, having to hurriedly put down and pickup his trombone each time.

The song "Wade in the Water" was also a popular concert number, according to Alpert, and was featured in the TJB's first television special in 1967.

Track listing

"Gotta Lotta Livin' To Do" (Lee Adams / Charles Strouse)
"Lady Godiva" (Charlie Mills / Mike Leander)
"Bo-Bo" (Sol Lake)
"Shades Of Blue" (Julius Wechter)
"In A Little Spanish Town" (Wayne / Young / Lewis)
"Wade in the Water" (Traditional, arr. Pisano / Edmondson / Alpert)
"Town Without Pity" (Dmitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington)
"The Charmer" (Pisano)
"Treasure Of San Miguel" (Roger Nichols)
"Miss Frenchy Brown" (Bud Coleman)
"Casino Royale" (Hal David / Burt Bacharach)

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1967	Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200)	1

Preceded by More of The Monkees by The Monkees	Billboard 200 number-one album June 17 - June 23, 1967	Succeeded by Headquarters by The Monkees

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Members	Herb Alpert (Trumpet/Vocals) John Pisano (electric guitar) Lou Pagani (piano) Nick Ceroli (drums) Pat Senatore (bass guitar) Tonni Kalash (trumpet) Bob Edmondson (trombone)

Albums	The Lonely Bull (1962) Volume 2 (1963) South of the Border (1964) Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965) Going Places (1965) What Now My Love (1966) S.R.O. (1966) Sounds Like... (1967) Herb Alpert's Ninth (1967) The Beat of the Brass (1968) Christmas Album (1968) Warm (1969) The Brass Are Comin' (1969) Summertime (1971) You Smile - The Song Begins (1974) Coney Island (1975) Just You and Me (1976) Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela (1978) Main Event Live! (1978) Rise (1979) Beyond (1980) Magic Man (1981) Fandango (1982) Blow Your Own Horn / Noche De Amor (1983) Bullish / Bravio (1984) Wild Romance (1985) Keep Your Eye On Me (1987) Under a Spanish Moon (1988) My Abstract Heart (1989) North on South St. (1991) Midnight Sun (1992) Second Wind (1996) Passion Dance (1997) Colors (1999) Lost Treasures (2005) Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped (2006) Rise (reissue) (2007)

Compilations	Greatest Hits (1970) Solid Brass (1972) Foursider (1973) A Treasury of the Award-Winning Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass plus selections from the Baja Marimba Band (1974) Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1977) Classics Volume 1 (1986) Classics Volume 20 (1987) The Very Best of Herb Alpert (1991) Definitive Hits (2001)

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