Customer Reviews

Surfin' Senorita

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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! :)

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.

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.

Most "tribute" albums focus on a single band's songs to cover. In this case, it's more of an era, or a style, or an attitude. If you grew up or lived through the 60's, these are songs that wormed their ways into your consciousness, even if you never knew the song titles or the bands playing them. They are, in effect, 60-'s pop versions of "folk" songs where the songs have survived even when the artists are long-forgotten. Take 15 of today's surfing bands, beginning with The Space Cossacks (who I currently rank #2 among all surf-music performers!) and you have a really FUN album on your hands!