HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS PRESS RELEASES

Coney Island

THE HERB ALPERT SIGNATURE SERIES
Featuring Lost Treaures, an all-new compilation of rarities & unreleased gems, plus deluxe remastered editions of Alpert's album classics

          In his liner notes for Lost Treasures, the compilation of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass rarities and previously unissued tracks that is among the initial three releases in Shout! Factory's historic Herb Alpert Signature Series, music writer Josh Kun points out:

          "There was someone named Elvis Presley and some band called The Beatles, but the truth about music in the 1960s is that we were a Herb Alpert nation. The patented Tijuana Brass sound of trumpets and marimbas swinging through chirpy blends of Dixieland jazz and Mexican mariachi were everywhere."

          As a musical force, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass--and Herb Alpert solo--far outlived the '60s, but the TJB sound reached a pinnacle in the middle of that decade, and will forever remain a truly iconic sound of the era. Among other highlights, TJB toured the world, earned massive ratings for network television specials chronicling their globe-trotting performances, were spoofed on Get Smart, played at the White House, and sent their music into space onboard Apollo 8. Everywhere, indeed.

          And the records themselves burned up the airwaves soared up the charts time and time again, racking up statistics and setting precedents that remain historic. Case in point: in 1966 alone, The Tijuana Brass achieved the distinction of simultaneously having four different albums in the Top 10 on Billboard's Pop album chart, and five in the Top 20. This since-unmatched feat will likely never be topped because of the profound shift in the pace at which artists release records today, as compared with previous decades.

          That same year, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass laid claim to the #1 spot on Billboard's Pop album chart for a remarkable eighteen weeks, during four of which, they also held the #2 position. Coming in second with a seventeen week total were the aforementioned Beatles, who at one point were outsold 2-to-1 by the Brass. From '62 to '69, TJB had fourteen Top 40 Pop singles, including the GRAMMY®-winners "A Taste Of Honey" and "What Now My Love," and the 1968 #1 smash "This Guy's In Love With You," boasting a rare lead vocal by Herb himself. Vibrant, soulful and energetic, the Brass's music tapped into the popular zeitgeist of the day with a spirited sound that was both accessible and exotic, and as the '60s ended, they remained the fourth best-selling act of the entire decade.

          The Herb Alpert Signature Series from Shout! Factory kicks off by exploring this artistically fertile period of Alpert's career with deluxe, remastered versions of two early and legendary albums, the 1962 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass debut The Lonely Bull and 1964's South Of The Border. Mining the richness of the TJB legacy with a more overarching focus is the new compilation Lost Treasures, collecting previously unreleased gems and choice rarities from 1963-1974. Every release in the Series-which will eventually encompass all of Alpert's classic albums, both with the Brass and solo-feature expanded booklets with all-new liner notes, newly penned personal commentary from Herb, and rarely-seen archival photos.

          Lost Treasures came into being when Alpert was awestruck by his discovery of the sheer volume of unreleased tracks that existed from the Tijuana Brass period. "When I started to listen to all of the well-preserved tapes," Alpert recently commented, "the music gave me goose bumps." On a few unfinished cuts, he went into the studio to complete, or re-record his trumpet parts, and make the tracks whole. "I got back into the groove," Alpert says. "I must admit, I had a good time doing that. I wanted to keep the tracks in the genre that I had recorded them in during that period. It's actually the same trumpet that I've used for years."
          Previously unissued recordings making their way onto Lost Treasures include signature Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass takes on James Taylor's "Fire And Rain"-a funky down-tempo cover that Josh Kun predicts is "bound to find its way into DJ chill sets"--and "Killing Me Softly," a version that Kun writes, "imagines Roberta Flack on a Mexican vacation, napping in a hammock..." Alpert explains, "When recording recognizable songs, my goal has always been to do them in a way that is different than the original recording, and to always try and express the song through the trumpet as if I were singing the lyric."
          Other inspired musical reworkings on the 22-song collection include TJB renditions of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David immortals "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" and "(They Long To Be) Close To You," Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)," Cat Stevens' "The Whistle Star," the Patti Page hit "Tennessee Waltz," and the early '70s cult favorite "Popcorn."

          The Lonely Bull, originally released in December, 1962, was not only the album debut for Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, it was the first album ever released on A&M Records, the then-fledgling label that Alpert had founded with partner Jerry Moss earlier in the year. The LP built on the extraordinary success of its title track-A&M's inaugural single-which climbed to #6 on Billboard's Pop singles chart, went on to sell a million copies, and helped keep the album-which peaked at #10--charting for three consecutive years.
          Alpert remembers, "In 1962, after experiencing my first bullfight in Tijuana, Mexico, I was inspired to find a way to musically express what I felt while watching and listening to the wild responses of the crowd in the stands, and hearing the group of brass musicians who introduced each new event with a rousing fanfare...my pursuit became to capture that on tape." Alpert's quest paid off, the excitement translated, and the Tijuana Brass sound became an instant, widespread musical and pop culture phenomenon. As Josh Kun writes in his notes, "What happened was that A&M Records, one of the most influential musical empires of the 20th century, was born in a Tijuana bullring."
          Indeed, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' hold on the public's imagination began here, with the evocative and colorful Sol Lake-penned title track and eleven other cuts, including Lake's "Crawfish," a jazz-flavored interpretation of the bossa nova favorite "Desafinado," the hit "Never On Sunday," and the inimitable Alpert & Moss co-write, "Tijuana Sauerkraut." The bull may have been lonely, but the Brass was on a roll...

          South Of The Border debuted in 1964, and rose to #6 on Billboard's Pop albums chart, making it the Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' biggest hit up to that point. During the sessions for it, Alpert recalls that, "I realized how important it is to be visual with instrumental music, so that each song, each arrangement, each presentation has a real visual image. It takes the place of that powerful lyric than an instrumental doesn't have."
          That process can be deeply felt on heavily Spanish-flavored numbers by composer Sol Lake-who had helped start it all with "The Lonely Bull"-including "El Presidente" and "Adios, Mi Corazon." Lake also penned the album's breakout hit, "The Mexican Shuffle," which Alpert re-recorded for the Clark Chewing Gum Company's use in an advertising campaign. Re-tooled as "The Teaberry Shuffle," the song's strains were a national finger-snapping, instantly recognizable sensation, and, as Kun notes, "the TV spot brought the Tijuana Brass to mass audiences the size Alpert had never dreamed of."
          Herb's approach also worked its magic on a diverse assortment of the fresh and inventive covers that fans came to expect from TJB. On South Of The Border, they interpret the Jobim classic "The Girl From Ipanema," The Beatles' "All My Loving," and the Lerner & Loewe My Fair Lady favorite "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face," among others. "At that point," says Alpert, "I felt that I just needed to find songs with strong melodies and put them in an interesting and honest setting." As with his desire to bring the passion of the bullring to the recording studio, once again, the artist rose to his own stated challenge, and channeled a sound, and a feeling, that connected with millions of fans everywhere. And things were still just beginning for Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass.

          Shout! Factory's roll-out of Herb Alpert's extraordinary catalogue offers an opportunity to revisit and savor this dynamic music, painstakingly remastered for optimal sound with Alpert's direct involvement. In conversations for the liner notes for the first wave of releases, Alpert said, "Deep down I would like younger audiences to dig these songs...I would boldly say that the reason my music worked then and could still work now is that it's not contrived. It's what really comes out of me. That's the way it is. I'm not screaming for anyone's attention."

For music lovers of every age, The Herb Alpert Signature Series is something to hear.

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© 2005 by Jensen Communications, Inc. Reproduced with permission of Jensen Communications.

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass: Lost Treasures CD

COMPILED BY ALPERT HIMSELF, SHOUT! FACTORY'S LOST TREASURES MINES PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED RICHES FROM HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS

The rarities disc, set for release today, February 8, introduces the Herb Alpert Signature Series

          Los Angeles, CA, February 8, 2005: At the close of the 1960s, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass--behind only Elvis, The Beatles and Sinatra--were the fourth top-selling album act of that decade. From 1962-1969, they had the nation swingin' to their sound with fourteen Top 40 Billboard singles, and achieved the since-unmatched feats of having four albums in the Top 10 one week, and five in the Top 20 another. Celebrating this phenomenal heyday, the 22-track Lost Treasures--also featuring new liner notes and a personal intro from Herb--is the premiere release in Shout! Factory's Herb Alpert Signature Series. The disc mines previously unreleased gems and rarities spanning 1963-1974, and will be available February 8.

          The compilation evolved after Alpert, much to his surprise, found many unreleased master tapes, and immersed himself in listening to them. "I didn't realize I was going to be affected the way I was," Alpert recalled. "When I heard some of the tracks, I got old-time goose bumps, the kind I used to get when I did the original Brass recordings. So I knew I was on the right track."

          Several tracks, including "Happy Hour," were missing trumpet parts, so Alpert hit the studio and played along with them, literally re-performing them. The new lines Alpert laid down blend seamlessly into the vintage takes, and he says, "I had a good time doing that. I wanted to keep the tracks in the genre that I had recorded them in during that period. It's actually the same trumpet I've used for years."

          A funky down-tempo riff on James Taylor's "Fire And Rain"--which L.A.-based music journalist, U.C. Riverside professor and Lost Treasures liner notes writer Josh Kun predicts is, "bound to find its way into DJ chill sets"--is another previously unissued discovery. Kun, whose book Strangers Among Sounds: Music, Race, And America will be published this year, also writes that "Killing Me Softly" "imagines Roberta Flack on a Mexican vacation, napping in a hammock."

          Alpert's said that in interpreting famous popular songs, one of his goals is, "to express the song through the trumpet as if I were singing the lyric," an inspired approach evident throughout Lost Treasures. Other renditions include Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)," Cat Stevens' "The Whistle Star," the early '70s favorite "Popcorn," and two Bacharach/David standards, including "(They Long To Be) Close To You." Featuring Alpert on vocals, it was originally intended to be the follow-up to his 1968 #1 smash "This Guy's In Love With You." Alpert remembers, "recording engineer Larry Levine said he didn't think the song was right for me. I...gave the song to Richard and Karen Carpenter. The rest is music history. Lucky for them and lucky for A&M records."

          And lucky for music lovers, the effortless cool of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass is revisited for past, present and future fans with Lost Treasures. Today, Shout! Factory will also release remasters of the classic TJB albums The Lonely Bull and South Of The Border in its launch of the Herb Alpert Signature Series, which will eventually include all of the Brass' and Herb Alpert's solo albums.

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© 2005 by Jensen Communications, Inc. Reproduced with permission of Jensen Communications.

HERB ALPERT SIGNATURE SERIES

WHIPPED CREAM & OTHER DELIGHTS

The original 2005 press release from Shout! Factory.

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THE ALBUM COVER THAT UNLEASHED THE IMAGINATIONS AND
APPETITES OF A WHOLE GENERATION
IS STILL FRESH AND INTOXICATING 40 YEARS LATER


 

WHIPPED CREAM &

OTHER DELIGHTS

 

On April 19th Shout! Factory Reissues Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' Sexy and Whimsical Chart-Topping creation

LOS ANGELES--A feast for the eyes and the ears, Herb ALpert and the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights (originally released in April 1965) was a sumptuous buffet of Brazilian jazz, mariachi and Dixieland that music lovers just couldn't get enough of. Topped off with their runaway hit "A Taste of Honey," the album spent eight weeks at #1. And then there was the album cover - that daring, sensual photo of a voluptuous model draped only in whipped cream from head to toe.

On April 19th, Shout! Factory will reissue the classic Whipped Cream & Other Delights as part of The Herb Alpert Signature Series, a long-term campaign to release deluxe re-mastered editions of Alpert's albums recorded with the Tijuana Brass. The newly remastered edition of this all-time classic album now also features two previously unreleased bonus tracks, "Rosemary"and "Blueberry Park,"both, of course, in keeping with the delectable flavor-per-song phenomenon of the original LP's twelve selections.

40 years after its initial release, pundits still debate about the secret behind Whipped Cream, a concept album built entirely around savory subjects that marked Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' breakthrough to the mainstream. Perhaps it was the way they bridged the gap between the generations by writing vibrant pop songs rooted in traditional music. Or their sexy Brazilian saunter through "Green Peppers"and "Bittersweet Samba."Could it be the playful "Whipped Cream,"which rode into pop culture infamy when "The Dating Game"started using it as a theme song? Or maybe that cover had something to do with it after all. Whatever the reasoning, the album aerated to #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart, and its Top 10 single "Taste Of Honey"took home four GRAMMY® Awards including "Record Of The Year"for 1965--very sweet indeed!

Within a year of releasing Whipped Cream, Alpert and the Tijuana Brass set a record that has yet to be challenged; four of their albums sat in the Top 10 throughout 1966. Alpert went on to sell over 75 million albums, win six Grammy® Awards, and built the legendary A&M Records (home to Sheryl Crow, Sting, Janet Jackson and The Carpenters). In total, Alpert has released over 30 albums, fourteen certified platinum, fifteen gold, and five #1 hit singles.

About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory is a broad-based audio and home video entertainment company whose cofounders--Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos--share a passion for pop culture of the 20th century and beyond. Video and DVD projects include television programming spanning 75 years, live music concerts, animation and sports collections and special interest documentaries. Audio products from Shout! Factory consist of GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, anthologies and "best of"collections, as well as new music, soundtrack releases, deluxe album reissues and quirky compilations. Shout! Factory's catalog features vintage and legendary performances from some of the greatest--and most eccentric--artists of our time. www.shoutfactory.com

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HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: WHIPPED CREAM & OTHER DELIGHTS

Catalog Number: DK 32868
Price: $13.98 SRP
Release Date: April 19, 2005

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SHOUT! FACTORY CONTINUES THE
HERB ALPERT SIGNATURE SERIES
WITH THREE '60s CHART-TOPPING ALBUMS

 

GOING PLACES

 

WHAT NOW MY LOVE?

 

S R O

 

IN STORES JUNE 7TH

LOS ANGELES, CA --- In 1966, four albums - that's right, four different albums - from Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass hit the Top 10, setting an astounding record that still stands to this very day. On the heels of their iconic Whipped Cream & Other Delights (originally released in 1965) followed a trio of hits in rapid succession, pushing Alpert's album sales ahead of every other artist that decade, including The Beatles. On June 7th, these three albums, Going Places, What Now My Love and SRO, will be reissued via Shout! Factory's Herb Alpert Signature Series.

 

 

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Going Places had the daunting task of following the success of Alpert's notorious Whipped Cream & Other Delights (reissued on April 19th) in 1965. But apprehension was short-lived and the album validated its own title by sticking out six weeks at #1. Going Places revisited the Tijuana Brass' love of mariachi and all things Mexican with songs like "Tijuana Taxi," "Felicia" and "Cinco de Mayo," but also had a little fun incorporating sounds from other corners of the world including their exuberant "Zorba the Greek." The album's "Spanish Flea" became the highly recognizable bachelor's theme on television's "The Dating Game." In 1966, What Now My Love held the #1 spot for nine weeks, longer than any of Alpert's other albums. The band expanded their repertoire to include Broadway show tunes and songs from recent films including "If I Was A Rich Man" (from Fiddler On The Roof) and "The Shadow Of Your Smile" (the love theme from the film The Sandpiper). Later that year, Alpert released SRO, his fourth album to sit in the Top 10 in 1966. SRO found the band experimenting more with classic pop, from the Burt Bacharach/Hal David-penned "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" to "Our Day Will Come." And for the first time, Alpert's jazz flair took center stage on songs like "The Work Song" and "Flamingo."

 

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Alpert went on to sell over 75 million albums, win six Grammy® Awards, and built the legendary A&M Records (home to Sheryl Crow, Sting, Janet Jackson and The Carpenters). In total, Alpert has released over 30 albums, fourteen certified platinum, fifteen gold, and five #1 hit singles. Earlier this year, he partnered with Shout! Factory to create The Herb Alpert Signature Series, dedicated to remastering and reissuing the iconic recordings he made with the Tijuana Brass. Thus far, the series has released The Lonely Bull, South Of The Border, Whipped Cream & Other Delights and Lost Treasures, a compilation of rare and previously unreleased songs.

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About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory is a broad-based audio and home video entertainment company whose cofounders - Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos - share a passion for pop culture of the 20th century and beyond. Video and DVD projects include television programming spanning 75 years, live music concerts, animation and sports collections and special interest documentaries. Audio products from Shout! Factory consist of GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, anthologies and "best of" collections, as well as new music, soundtrack releases, deluxe album reissues and quirky compilations. Shout! Factory's catalog features vintage and legendary performances from some of the greatest - and most eccentric - artists of our time. Shout! Factory titles are distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. www.shoutfactory.com

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HERB ALPERT AND SHOUT! FACTORY REVISIT 1967
WITH A TRIO OF REISSUES

 

SOUNDS LIKE...

 

HERB ALPERT'S NINTH

 

BEAT OF THE BRASS

 

Third Set Of CDs From The Herb Alpert Signature Series In Stores August 16th

 

The Brookes Company
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(310) 979-5602
sstudebaker@shoutfactory.com

 

LOS ANGELES, CA--Shout! Factory rides the next wave of reissues from the Herb Alpert Signature Series with a set of three hit albums from the late 1960s, all due in stores August 16th. Alpert's distinctive Ameriachi compositions shaped Sounds Like..., Herb Alpert's Ninth, and The Beat of the Brass which each attained Gold status by the end of the decade. This trio of albums is the latest to be released via the Herb Alpert Signature Series, launched earlier this year to re-release a line of the most popular albums by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

 

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass: Sounds Like CD

 

In May of 1967, Alpert released the first of his two albums that would dominate the pop charts that year. Finally breaking the Monkees 31-week stint at #1, Sounds Like... spent one week at the top of the Billboard album charts before Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band took over the world. Sounds Like... became a testament of Alpert's enduring popularity; his mariachi compositions held their own alongside the biggest pop and rock phenomena of the decade.

SOUNDS LIKE...
Catalog Number: DK 32995
Price: $13.98 SRP
Release Date: August 16, 2005

Track Listing

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 Miquel
10. Miss Frenchy Brown
11. Casino Royale

 

 

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At the close of 1967, Alpert issued Herb Alpert's Ninth, revealing his sense of humor as well as artistic depth by incorporating new musical elements into the Tijuana Brass' trademark sound. With dramatic string sections and his reworking of "Carmen," the album playfully moves back and forth between creative brilliance and outright fun. His cover of The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends" and the Dozier-Holland penned "The Happening" are lively and exuberant romps.

HERB ALPERT'S NINTH
Catalog Number: DK 33466
Price: $13.98 SRP
Release Date: August 16, 2005

Track List

1. A Banda
2. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
3. The Trolley Song
4. The Happening
5. Bud
6. Love So Fine
7. The Love Nest
8. With A Little Help From My Friends
9. Flea Bag
10. Cowboys And Indians
11. Carmen

 

 

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The Beat of the Brass followed just four months later. The lavishly packaged counterpart to Herb's recent television special (of the same name) was marked by the #1 single, "This Guy's In Love With You," written by Burt Bacharach and surprisingly sung by Herb himself. The remainder of the album is filled with Alpert's take on time-honored favorites including "Thanks For The Memory" and "Talk To The Animals," which helped propel it to the top of the charts.

THE BEAT OF THE BRASS
Catalog Number: DK 33723
Price: $13.98 SRP
Release Date: August 16, 2005

Track List

1. Monday Monday
2. A Beautiful Friend
3. Cabaret
4. Panama
5. Belz Mein Shtetele Belz (My Home Town)
6. Talk To The Animals
7. Slick
8. She Touched Me
9. Thanks For The Memory
10. The Robin
11. This Guy's In Love With You

Alpert went on to sell over 75 million albums, win seven Grammy ® Awards, and built the legendary A&M Records (home to Sheryl Crow, Sting, Janet Jackson and The Carpenters). In total, Alpert has released over 30 albums, fourteen certified platinum, fifteen gold, and five #1 hit singles. Earlier this year, he partnered with Shout! Factory to create The Herb Alpert Signature Series, dedicated to remastering and reissuing the iconic recordings he made with the Tijuana Brass. Thus far, the series has released The Lonely Bull, South of the Border, Whipped Cream & Other Delights and Lost Treasures, a compilation of rare and previously unreleased songs. Going Places, SRO and What Now My Love were reissued on June 7th.

About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory is a broad-based audio and home video entertainment company whose cofounders - Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos - share a passion for pop culture of the 20th century and beyond. Video and DVD projects include television programming spanning 75 years, live music concerts, animation and sports collections and special interest documentaries. Audio products from Shout! Factory consist of GRAMMY® -nominated box sets, anthologies and "best of" collections, as well as new music, soundtrack releases, deluxe album reissues and quirky compilations. Shout! Factory's catalog features vintage and legendary performances from some of the greatest - and most eccentric - artists of our time. Shout! Factory titles are distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

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© 2005 by Shout! Factory. Reproduced with permission of Shout! Factory.

MAKING A LIST?...
BETTER CHECK IT TWICE

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass'

CHRISTMAS ALBUM

The Holiday Favorite Arrives In-Stores Via Shout! Factory October 18th

LOS ANGELES, CA - Just in the Saint Nick of time, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' long out-of-print Christmas Album makes a holly-jolly comeback with a deluxe reissue from Shout! Factory as part of the acclaimed Herb Alpert Signature Series. First released in 1968, this spirited holiday LP originally shot straight to #1 on Billboard's pop album chart and delivered the #1 single, "The Christmas Song," TJB's inimitable version of the hearth-warming classic. Brimming with good cheer and timeless charm -- and now wrapped in shiny new Signature Series packaging -- TJB's collection of Yuletide favorites is primed to be one of the year's favorite stocking stuffers. In the spirit of the season, it's priced to fit everyone's twice-checked lists and gift-buying budgets at a very merry $13.98 SRP, in stores October 18th.

On the Christmas Album, the Tijuana Brass' signature sound is embellished with resonant vocals and striking voice and string arrangements from jazz great Shorty Rogers, known for his work with Maynard Ferguson. In addition to TJB's hit version of "The Christmas Song," the album features sparkling renditions of holiday gems including "Winter Wonderland" and "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" as well as festive takes on "Las Mananitas" and "My Favorite Things." Boasting a jovial album cover with Alpert as a horn-tooting Santa, Christmas Album remains a holiday party perennial with longtime fans and retro-swingers alike.

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In his extraordinary career, Alpert has sold over 75 million albums, won eight GRAMMY® Awards, and built the legendary label A&M Records (home to Sheryl Crow, Sting, Janet Jackson, The Carpenters, and many more stars). In total, as an artist Alpert has released over 30 albums, fourteen certified platinum, fifteen gold, and five #1 hit singles. Earlier this year, he partnered with Shout! Factory to create The Herb Alpert Signature Series, dedicated to remastering and reissuing the iconic recordings he made with the Tijuana Brass. Thus far, the series has released The Lonely Bull, South of the Border, Whipped Cream & Other Delights and Lost Treasures, a compilation of rare and previously unreleased songs. Going Places, SRO and What Now My Love were reissued on June 7th, with Beat of the Brass, Sounds Like and Herb Alpert's Ninth following on August 16th.

About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory is a broad-based audio and home video entertainment company whose cofounders - Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos - share a passion for pop culture of the 20th century and beyond. Video and DVD projects include television programming spanning 75 years, live music concerts, animation and sports collections and special interest documentaries. Audio products from Shout! Factory consist of GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, anthologies and "best of" collections, as well as new music, soundtrack releases, deluxe album reissues and quirky compilations. Shout! Factory's catalog features vintage and legendary performances from some of the greatest - and most eccentric - artists of our time. Shout! Factory products are distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment Inc.

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CONTACT:
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Jolyn Matsumuro                               Stacey Studebaker
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jolyn@brookescompany.com           sstudebaker@shoutfactory.com

Annissa Mason
(310) 558-3000 x204
annissa@brookescompany.com

HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: CHRISTMAS ALBUM
Catalog Number:   DK 34411
Price:                     $13.98 SRP
Release Date:         October 18, 2005
Territories:             U.S./Canada (Cadiz Music Limited/Europe & King Record Co./Japan)

TRACK LISTING
      1. Winter Wonderland
      2. Jingle Bells
      3. My Favorite Things
      4. The Christmas Song
      5. Las Mananitas
      6. Sleigh Ride
      7. The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
      8. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
      9. Jingle Bell Rock
      10. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring

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