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The Baja Marimba Band was an American musical group led by marimba player Julius Wechter. Formed by producer Herb Alpert after his own Tijuana Brass, [ 1 ] the Baja Marimba Band outlasted the Tijuana Brass by several years in part due to TV producer Chuck Barris , who included the group's music on his game shows in the 1970s.
Particularly notable classical performers on the marimba include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Encouraged by Alpert, Wechter formed the Baja Marimba Band c. 1963 and was quite successful. [1] The "BMB" placed four chart songs in Billboard's Top 100, and many more on its Easy Listening Top 40. When the band disbanded in the mid 1970s, Wechter turned his attention to TV and movies again, scoring the Disney film Midnight Madness .
Ervan F. "Bud" Coleman (July 7, 1921 – May 26, 1967) was an American guitar and mandolin player. A member of Baja Marimba Band he also worked with Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and wrote the hit track "Tijuana Taxi" for the band.
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 evening of Jan. 24, 2023, officers from Tijuana's police department and Mexico's national guard arrested Madrigal and nine other men near the beaches of Rosarito, Mexican media reported.
[citation needed] Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band covered the song on their 1971 album Julius Wechter and the Baja Marimba Band's Back under the title "Anytime of the Year (Bashana Haba'ah)". [7] Claudine Longet recorded it in 1971 as "Anytime of the Year," but with the Hebrew lyrics. [8]
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