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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.
Greatest Hits is a 1970 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It was the group's first compilation album, with all selections coming from its first five albums. The album was released a few months after Alpert had disbanded the group.
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 ...
Julius Wechter was a percussionist in Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, most notably on marimba. "Spanish Flea" was one of several songs he wrote for the group. It was released as an instrumental on the B-side to the single "What Now My Love" from their 1965 album Going Places.
Herb Alpert's Ninth is a 1967 album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.It reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart and spent 18 weeks in the Top 40. Its cover, in addition to containing some still photos from Brass concerts, includes a pop-culture joke: it shows Ludwig van Beethoven appearing to wear a sweatshirt bearing Alpert's face at a time when sweatshirts bearing Beethoven's face were ...
S.R.O., is an album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, released in 1966.The title stands for "Standing Room Only," which is a term used to describe a sold-out performance where all the available seats are taken and only standing room remains.
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. He ...
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. On the liner notes for the song "Tijuana Taxi", on Herb Alpert's Definitive Hits , Alpert wrote: "[Tijuana Taxi] was written by Bud Coleman who also played guitar and mandolin on many Tijuana Brass recordings ...