Baja Marimba Band
FOR ANIMALS ONLY
A&M SP-4113
Tracks:
Side One
1. For Animals Only (Julius Wechter) 2:20
2. Puff (The Magic Dragon) (Yarrow-Lipton) 2:28
3. Elephant Soul (Julius Wechter) 2:30
4. Gnu Bossa Nova (Cohn-Hallinan) 2:32
5. Last Of The Red Hot Llamas (Alf Brinton) 2:40
6. La Cucaracha (Julius Wechter) 2:50
Side Two
1. How Much Is That Doggie In The Window (Bob Merrill) 1:55
2. Yellow Bird (Luboff-Keith-Bergman) 2:55
3. Swan Waltz (Julius Wechter) 3:23
4. A Partridge In A Pear Tree (The Twelve Days Of Christmas) (Julius Wechter) 2:49)
5. El Gazelle (Julius Wechter) 2:23
6. Las Mañanitas (Julius Wechter) 2:57
Produced by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Arranged by Julius Wechter & Herb Alpert
Engineered by Ben Jordan, Westerm Recording
Album Designed by Peter Whorf Graphics
Liner Notes:
THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND THE BAJA MARIMBA BAND
The Baja Marimba Band is not a group to trifle with...this kaleidoscopic bunch has scored again in the new A and M album...For Animals Only.
The band, led by the cogent Baja Marimba Sr., has recorded literally scads of tunes pertaining to some of your favorites in creature-like tomfoolery. Baja first was inspired to do the lp one night while watching a tattered old 8 mm rental film. The picture was a travel adventure depicting the age-old battle between the sloth and his natural enemy, the squid. While the movie flashed on the screen Baja hummed the soundtrack to a few close friends nearby. (The few closeby friends are depicted on the cover of this album.) Unfortunately, not many famous songs mention sloths or squids...but little matter because there are melodies for doggies, llamas, dragons, etc. (Remember my Etc. has fleas?)
Mr. Marimba quickly dispatched a team of fauna fanciers to do research on the album...and they, in turn, responded with trips to the places where animals are in most abundance: The famous Yafnarrow Zoo in downtown Plankinton, South Dakota, a cave near Poteet, Texas, the Old Stork Club, The Chicago Cubs...Billy DeWolfe, Fox Movietone News, Birdland, Harry "The Cat" Brecheen.
A hard-of-hearing newspaper man contributed what he thought would be an apropos title for a song..."Puck, the Comic Weekly" (once whistled by Peter Paul and Mary). He thought it would be a great plug for the funnies in his syndicated newspaper firm...however the entire band soon trounced him and sent him groveling.
Others tried to find animal titles to correlate with this masterpiece...The works of Charles Lamb...The Rippling Rhythms of "Sheep" Fields...the melodies of "Hoggy" Carmichael...The "Whoseafraid of Virginia Woolf?"
The Marimba researchers ran into one small snag, however. (The small snag, a 45 pounder, was running across a road near Detroit and was bumped slightly by the band's myopic bus driver, Gilberto).
Some of the more important people in the whole world had questions put to them...Simian Legree...Baby Pignitari..."Bronco" Nagurski...Tabby Grimes...Pussy Galore...
Questions such as: "DO YOU THINK AN ALBUM FOR ANIMALS ONLY WOULD BE A SOUND IDEA?" And everyone came up with a resounding negative answer.
With these replies, the wise Baja (Co-author of Baja, Black Sheep, have you any wool?) sat down at his desk filled with frijoles and inexpensive num-nums and began to construct the album you are about to hear.
THE RESULT IS NOTHING SHORT OF SYCOPHANTIC!
GARY OWENS...KMPC HOLLYWOOD
FOR ANIMALS ONLY
A&M SP-4113
Tracks:
Side One
1. For Animals Only (Julius Wechter) 2:20
2. Puff (The Magic Dragon) (Yarrow-Lipton) 2:28
3. Elephant Soul (Julius Wechter) 2:30
4. Gnu Bossa Nova (Cohn-Hallinan) 2:32
5. Last Of The Red Hot Llamas (Alf Brinton) 2:40
6. La Cucaracha (Julius Wechter) 2:50
Side Two
1. How Much Is That Doggie In The Window (Bob Merrill) 1:55
2. Yellow Bird (Luboff-Keith-Bergman) 2:55
3. Swan Waltz (Julius Wechter) 3:23
4. A Partridge In A Pear Tree (The Twelve Days Of Christmas) (Julius Wechter) 2:49)
5. El Gazelle (Julius Wechter) 2:23
6. Las Mañanitas (Julius Wechter) 2:57
Produced by Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
Arranged by Julius Wechter & Herb Alpert
Engineered by Ben Jordan, Westerm Recording
Album Designed by Peter Whorf Graphics
Liner Notes:
THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND THE BAJA MARIMBA BAND
The Baja Marimba Band is not a group to trifle with...this kaleidoscopic bunch has scored again in the new A and M album...For Animals Only.
The band, led by the cogent Baja Marimba Sr., has recorded literally scads of tunes pertaining to some of your favorites in creature-like tomfoolery. Baja first was inspired to do the lp one night while watching a tattered old 8 mm rental film. The picture was a travel adventure depicting the age-old battle between the sloth and his natural enemy, the squid. While the movie flashed on the screen Baja hummed the soundtrack to a few close friends nearby. (The few closeby friends are depicted on the cover of this album.) Unfortunately, not many famous songs mention sloths or squids...but little matter because there are melodies for doggies, llamas, dragons, etc. (Remember my Etc. has fleas?)
Mr. Marimba quickly dispatched a team of fauna fanciers to do research on the album...and they, in turn, responded with trips to the places where animals are in most abundance: The famous Yafnarrow Zoo in downtown Plankinton, South Dakota, a cave near Poteet, Texas, the Old Stork Club, The Chicago Cubs...Billy DeWolfe, Fox Movietone News, Birdland, Harry "The Cat" Brecheen.
A hard-of-hearing newspaper man contributed what he thought would be an apropos title for a song..."Puck, the Comic Weekly" (once whistled by Peter Paul and Mary). He thought it would be a great plug for the funnies in his syndicated newspaper firm...however the entire band soon trounced him and sent him groveling.
Others tried to find animal titles to correlate with this masterpiece...The works of Charles Lamb...The Rippling Rhythms of "Sheep" Fields...the melodies of "Hoggy" Carmichael...The "Whoseafraid of Virginia Woolf?"
The Marimba researchers ran into one small snag, however. (The small snag, a 45 pounder, was running across a road near Detroit and was bumped slightly by the band's myopic bus driver, Gilberto).
Some of the more important people in the whole world had questions put to them...Simian Legree...Baby Pignitari..."Bronco" Nagurski...Tabby Grimes...Pussy Galore...
Questions such as: "DO YOU THINK AN ALBUM FOR ANIMALS ONLY WOULD BE A SOUND IDEA?" And everyone came up with a resounding negative answer.
With these replies, the wise Baja (Co-author of Baja, Black Sheep, have you any wool?) sat down at his desk filled with frijoles and inexpensive num-nums and began to construct the album you are about to hear.
THE RESULT IS NOTHING SHORT OF SYCOPHANTIC!
GARY OWENS...KMPC HOLLYWOOD