Surfin' Senorita

Surfin' Senorita (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 18, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Wildebeest Records
• ASIN: B00000IZAS
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #448,904 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bittersweet Samba

2. Surfin' Senorita

3. Spanish Flea

4. Work Song

5. Mexican Shuffle

6. Whipped Cream

7. Struttin' With Maria

8. A Taste of Honey

9. Memories of Madrid

10. South of the Border

11. Third Man Theme

12. The Lonely Bull

13. Green Peppers

14. Wade in the Water

15. Tijuana Taxi

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars it's a Tijuana Brass tribute 100%, April 5, 2002

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Stefan Daystrom (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surfin' Senorita (Audio CD)

I'm not sure why a reviewer below didn't think it was a tribute to a single group, but it is (without them mentioning it explictly anywhere on the cover or in the booklet). It's 100% a tribute to Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, the #1 instrumental group of the 60s. Here are the TJB albums each track was on originally (just the track numbers after each album): LONELY BULL (7, 12), VOLUME 2 (2), SOUTH OF THE BORDER (5, 10), WHIPPED CREAM AND OTHER DELIGHTS (1, 6, 8, 13), !!GOING PLACES!! (3, 11, 15), WHAT NOW MY LOVE (9), S.R.O. (4), SOUNDS LIKE... (14). (Most of those albums are out of print right now but you can get many of these songs in the original TJB versions on DEFINITIVE HITS by Herb Alpert.) Meanwhile, as to the music itself: This is definitely an above-average tribute. And a fitting style to do the tribute in, as long before I heard of this album I thought that "Lonely Bull" sounded like with a change in instrumentation it might have been CONCEIVED as a surf song at one point! :)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Herb Alpert revisited!, November 4, 1999

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Jim (Tahlequah, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Surfin' Senorita (Audio CD)

Great idea, beautiful music! A comp. album has never been so fun. Be sure to check out `Whip Cream' by the Exotics and `Tijuana Taxi' by Donna Ho.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great variety album, May 28, 2000

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H. Woodbury "heartful_home" (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Surfin' Senorita (Audio CD)

There's a real variety of style here, but one common thread throughout--it's all FUN. One or two songs fall short (hence 4, not 5 stars), but I recommend it. Buy it and be entertained.