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Christmas Album,Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass

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Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Released 1968

Las Mananitas
02:56
3,942 plays

Winter Wonderland
03:02
3,861 plays

Jingle Bells
03:07
1,732 plays

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- 1
- Winter Wonderland
- 03:02
- 3,861 plays

- 2
- Jingle Bells
- 03:07
- 1,732 plays

- 3
- My Favorite Things
- 03:00
- 1,667 plays

- 4
- The Christmas Song
- 03:36
- 1,292 plays

- 5
- Las Mananitas
- 02:56
- 3,942 plays

- 6
- Sleigh Ride
- 03:55
- 1,467 plays

- 7
- The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
- 02:53
- 1,305 plays

- 8
- Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
- 03:41
- 1,282 plays

- 9
- Jingle Bell Rock
- 01:49
- 1,466 plays

- 10
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
- 03:22
- 1,199 plays

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album 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 Guide