Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me)

We're going to take a little side road along our musical journey for this episode. It's not something I often do, especially in my youth, but I'm going to make a big deal out of my birthday this year, since it actually falls on a day I publish my episodes. 62 is not a milestone. There is no special celebration with my high school classmates, since next year we'll be celebrating at our 45-year reunion. In fact, I better get busy and call a meeting since I am currently the chair of the reunion committee. In that vein, I am going to pull out an album filled with plenty of songs you've already heard on this show, but they all appear on this one disk. I keep circling back to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Back to the music that made my household so much fun to grow up in. Back to an album that was permanently in the To Play pile next to the living room record player. So, get ready to hear the entire album of music that always went along well with my mom's lasagna, a house full of friends, and bocce ball in the backyard and help me celebrate with some favorite memories in Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me). More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.  Include links to previous spinning My Dad's Vinyl episodes featuring the TJB: Volume 6: Herb Alpert Lonely Bull Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places Volume 54: Alpert's Ninth Volume 98: Whipped Alpert Volume 129: Brass' Beat for Father's Day Volume 156: Christmas Herb Credits and copyrights Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Greatest Hits Label: A&M Records – SP-4245 Series: Greatest Hits (8) Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing Released: 1970 Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Latin Jazz Liner Notes – Charles Champlin Cover Photography – Jim McCrary Producer – Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss Comes in a "UniPak" styled gatefold cover with a inner pocket to house LP. We will hear all 12 songs in the order they appear. Lonely Bull Written-By – Sol Lake Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964 Spanish Flea Written-By – Julius Wechter Appeared on Going Places released in 1967 Getting Sentimental Over You Written-By – George Bassman Appeared on Going Places released in 1967 Love Potion #9 (first time I came across an actress by the name of Sandra Bullock...it's hilarious.) Written-By – Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965 Never On Sunday Written-By – Billy Towne and Mano Hadjidakis Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964 Mexican Shuffle Written-By – Sol Lake Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964 Taste Of Honey Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965 Tijuana Taxi Written-By – Ervan Coleman Appeared on Going Places released in 1967 South Of The Border Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964 America Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim Appeared on America Released in 1969 Whipped Cream Written-By – Naomi Neville Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965 Zorba The Greek Written-By – Mikis Theodorakis Appeared on Going Places released in 1967 I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.