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Christmas Album 
Studio album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Released December, 1968 Label A&M Producer Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss Professional reviews Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass chronology The Beat of the Brass
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(1969)Christmas Album is a late-1968 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It was the group's eleventh release. Although the Brass' albums were out of print for a good many years, the Christmas Album was released on CD in the 1980s, with annual reappearances in record stores at Christmastime; and then re-released by the Shout!Factory label in 2006 as were many of the other Tijuana Brass albums.
The album contains a mixture of popular Christmas-season music, mostly American secular standards. Exceptions include the Bach piece "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," and a traditional Hispanic number, "Las Mañanitas." The latter song's arrangement, provided by marimbist Julius Wechter, is near identical to one used by Wechter's Baja Marimba Band several years earlier, on their 1965 album For Animals Only. The songs's title literally means "The Little Mornings;" the song is traditionally sung on the morning of one's birthday celebration, or the day of a religious figure such as a saint (or, in this case, Jesus).
The cover features the image of Alpert, who is Jewish, dressed as Santa Claus while playing his trumpet.
Collaborating with Alpert in the production was his usual cadre of musicians: Nick Ceroli (drums/percussion), Bob Edmondson (trombone), Tonni Kalash (trumpet), Lou Pagani (keyboards), John Pisano (guitars/mandolin) and Pat Senatore (bass). Alpert provides lead vocals on "The Christmas Song" and "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle," and there are also appearances by a studio choir and string instruments, arranged by Shorty Rogers.
Track listing
- "Winter Wonderland" (R. Smith, F. Bernard) – 3:02
- "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont, arr. Herb Alpert/John Pisano) – 3:08
- "My Favorite Things" (Rodgers and Hammerstein) – 3:01
- "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 3:38
- "Las Mañanitas" (trad. - arr. Julius Wechter) – 2:57
- "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson) – 3:56
- "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle" (Burt Bacharach, Larry Kusik) – 2:55
- "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:44
- "Jingle Bell Rock" (Joe Beale, Jim Boothe) – 1:50
- "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (Johann Sebastian Bach) – 3:26
Members Herb Alpert (Trumpet/Vocals) • John Pisano (electric guitar) • Lou Pagani (piano) • Nick Ceroli (drums) • Pat Senatore (bass guitar) • Tonni Kalash (trumpet) • Bob Edmondson (trombone)Albums The Lonely Bull (1962) • Volume 2 (1963) • South of the Border (1964) • Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965) • Going Places (1965) • What Now My Love (1966) • S.R.O. (1966) • Sounds Like... (1967) • Herb Alpert's Ninth (1967) • The Beat of the Brass (1968) • Christmas Album (1968) • Warm (1969) • The Brass Are Comin' (1969) • Summertime (1971) • You Smile - The Song Begins (1974) • Coney Island (1975) • Just You and Me (1976) • Herb Alpert/Hugh Masekela (1978) • Main Event Live! (1978) • Rise (1979) • Beyond (1980) • Magic Man (1981) • Fandango (1982) • Blow Your Own Horn / Noche De Amor (1983) • Bullish / Bravio (1984) • Wild Romance (1985) • Keep Your Eye On Me (1987) • Under a Spanish Moon (1988) • My Abstract Heart (1989) • North on South St. (1991) • Midnight Sun (1992) • Second Wind (1996) • Passion Dance (1997) • Colors (1999) • Lost Treasures (2005) • Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped (2006) • Rise (reissue) (2007)Compilations Greatest Hits (1970) • Solid Brass (1972) • Foursider (1973) • A Treasury of the Award-Winning Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass plus selections from the Baja Marimba Band (1974) • Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1977) • Classics Volume 1 (1986) • Classics Volume 20 (1987) The Very Best of Herb Alpert (1991) Definitive Hits (2001)Categories:- 1968 Christmas albums
- Christmas albums by American artists
- Herb Alpert albums
- A&M Records albums
- English-language albums
- Shout! Factory albums
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