A&M Gold Series [Import]

Herb Alpert | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B000026H15
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,813 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Taste Of Honey

2. This Guy's In Love With You

3. Work Song

4. Spanish Flea

5. Mame

6. Happening

7. Mexican Road Race

8. Third Man's Theme

9. South Of The Border

10. Abanda

11. Hello Dolly

12. Marching Thru Madrid

13. Whipped Cream

14. Mexican Shuffle

15. Cabaret

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Half of a good compilation, March 26, 2004

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Harry Gene Neyhart "hgn2001" (Sunny Central Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A&M Gold Series (Audio CD)

Others have expressed surprise at some of the song choices on this import CD called GOLD SERIES 2 for Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. Looked at by itself, it IS rather surprising to see such choices as "Mexican Road Race" and "Third Man Theme." These were not hits after all, so what are they doing on a hits compilation?

Well they ARE great tunes - and this disc is only half of a two-disc set as originally conceived. In 1991, PolyGram, the new owners of the A&M Records back catalog, decided to mine those older records by putting out a series of discs called the GOLD SERIES in Europe and Japan. Australia got a similar series called STARTRAX.

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, originators of the A&M label, got two discs, since I suppose one wasn't felt to be long enough to hold all of the great songs. Somehow though, in label consolidation and titles going in and out of print since then, this title, Volume #2 in the set survived. Perhaps it was the more popular of the two, since it contains Herb's standout vocal on "This Guy's In Love With You." Though it was indeed Volume 2, nowhere on this disc is that designation found. Thus it seems that the powers that be decided it was good enough to stand on its own.

For the curious, the rarer and harder-to-find Volume 1 contained these tracks: The Lonely Bull / What Now My Love / Tijuana Taxi / The Maltese Melody / Bittersweet Samba / Casino Royale / Flamingo / Zorba The Greek / Our Day Will Come / The Girl From Ipanema / My Favorite Things / Wade In The Water / Spanish Harlem / So What's New / Without Her.

Harry from amcorner.com

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A not so predictable line-up of Alpert classics., July 10, 2001

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David Kenner (Fort Worth, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A&M Gold Series (Audio CD)

Whoever heard of a Tijuana Brass compilation without "The Lonely Bull"? I didn't actually notice that the "Bull" was absent until I was listening to this disc. You don't really miss it though because there are so many great tunes here anyway. This West German collection leads off with "A Taste of Honey", the first of 15 classic cuts from Herb Alpert & The TJB. I'm not sure what warrants the track listing of this particular disc. Maybe these are the biggest hits of the TJB in West Germany. Then again, maybe like some American compilations, it could be more of a random sampling. One selling point to American consumers on this disc is the inclusion of two songs that have yet to have a CD release in the US: "Mexican Road Race" and their 1967 top 30 cover of The Supremes' "The Happening". It also contains "Third Man Theme" which has not been on any "best of" collection before. I think the sound quality is just a notch better than what we've gotten on "Greatest Hits", "Foursider", "Classics" and the like. It's just a little bit cleaner with a little deeper bass and not quite so much background hiss. The differences are subtle however. No liner notes but still I recommend this disc to the Alpert completist.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HEY! A & M...Where's the box set???, August 19, 2003

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Dallas T. Cupps "Dallas 'Stealth' Cupps" (Chester, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A&M Gold Series (Audio CD)

No matter what they put on these "Best Of..." CD's, it's just not enough. Where's the box set A & M? Now that Alpert and Moss no longer run the label they created, many of the old guard of the label are given no respect by the "new guard." And since the old albums are short, two to two and a half albums could fit on one CD! They had only twelve or thirteen albums. That's a five or six CD box set. So make it limited edition guys...I think there are a lot of TJB fans out there just waiting for such a set. Stop with the slap and dash "Best Of's..." and give us "The Works!!"