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- Artist: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
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- Release Date: 1968 11
- Total Time: 31:37
- Type: Christmas
- Genre: Easy Listening
Review
Herb Alpert turned to jazz's Shorty Rogers -- then toiling in the L.A. film and TV studios -- for voice and string arrangements on his Christmas album, and Rogers in turn went all out for schmaltz. Rogers' cooing voices introduce several of the tunes, whereupon the Tijuana Brass do their mostly unrelated Ameriachi thing familiar from past albums. Indeed, "Las Mananitas" seems to have been lifted from an obscure B-side of a 45 and overdubbed with the Rogers treatment. Jingling bells is a recurring song theme -- first with "Jingle Bells," then the cloying "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle," and ultimately "Jingle Bell Rock." For the first time in a long time, Alpert's sense of pacing occasionally goes awry; "My Favorite Things" nearly comes apart in the silences and piano/vocal interlude between the TJB grooves, and "Sleigh Ride" screeches to a dead halt. And yet time and further exposure has revealed this record's homey charms, which no doubt is one reason why it continues to be available on CD where other TJB best-sellers have fallen by the wayside. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Winter Wonderland | Felix Bernard, |
Herb Alpert, |
(3:06) |
| Jingle Bells | Herb Alpert, |
(3:11) | |
| My Favorite Things | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II | Herb Alpert, |
(3:05) |
| The Christmas Song | Mel Tormé, Robert Wells | Herb Alpert, |
(3:40) |
| Las Mañanitas | Public Domain, Traditional | Herb Alpert, |
(2:59) |
| Sleigh Ride | Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish | Herb Alpert, |
(4:00) |
| The Bell That Couldn't Jingle | Burt Bacharach, |
Herb Alpert, |
(2:56) |
| Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne | Herb Alpert, |
(3:45) |
| Jingle Bell Rock | Herb Alpert, |
(1:52) | |
| Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | Johann Sebastian Bach, |
Herb Alpert, |
(3:22) |
