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First album I bought was either the Sandpipers Guantanamera (ugh, what a mistake), or the Greatest Hits of either the TJB or BMB. Got those at E.J. Korvette's.
So I chose the TJB's Greatest Hits. By this time we had a hi-fi console, but the needle was pretty shredded.
The first I owned was "Whipped Cream and Other Delights". I was 11, my mom was going on a business trip and I asked her for the "new" Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass album (which would have been "Ninth"). To help her remember, I told her "it has a green cover". Probably my favorite mistake Mom made .
On the GH 8-track, two songs were severely edited. "America" had half of its middle "crowd singing" part cut out, and "Zorba the Greek" had almost the entire slow section removed. (It had the "intro" to that section, but where Herb's trumpet would have come in, it cut right to the part where the music starts to speed up.)
(I kinda think we mighta'd confused Herb with Al Hirt at the time--after all, a clothespin stuck to a ruler is more like a clarinet than a trumpet, innit it?).
Yes...but did you play it?
It looks like a post-1970 album - and very possibly the 1972 release Solid Brass (SP-4341).
A very old picture from probably the late '60s, maybe early '70s. By then, I'd graduated from the plastic self-contained portable phonograph to a component setup. My first magnetic cartridge turntable was this BSR, which is pictured playing a some Tijuana Brass record. I can't identify it.
On first inspection, it looks liked the title is two words, followed by lines two and three saying "HERB ALPERT &" and "THE TIJUANA BRASS". It looks like a stereo disc based on the length of the word on the right. And looking at the grooves, my best guess is that there are six tracks on the side, with track five being a longish, quieter one.
I just inspected all of my GOING PLACES albums and none of them match that. I checked SOUNDS LIKE and couldn't find a match. Any guesses?