South of the Border (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album)

South of the Border
Studio album by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Released	October 1964
Genre	Jazz, easy listening, pop
Label	A&M A&M LP 108 / A&M SP108
Producer	Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass chronology
Volume 2 (1963) South of the Border (1964) Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965)

South of the Border is the third album by American easy listening brass band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, originally released in 1964. The name of the group, for this album, is "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass".

Alpert's first top ten hit, and fifth gold record, the album continued the progression of the Tijuana Brass from its mostly-Mexican sound to a more easy-listening style, with a collection of cover versions of popular songs. Included were "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face", originally featured in the Broadway musical My Fair Lady and The Beatles' 1963 hit "All My Loving". It also featured an instrumental cover of its title song, "South of the Border", which was most famously done as a vocal by Frank Sinatra.

"Hello, Dolly!" had the band singing a couple of lines of the mostly-instrumental rendition, in what might now be considered stereotyping, using mock-Mexican accents. Alpert's distinctive singing voice was not discernible in that portion. Also, in some versions, he can be heard whispering "Número Cinco", effecting a Mexican accent, at the start of that song's track.

One number, a Sol Lake tune called "The Mexican Shuffle", was reworked for a TV ad for a brand of chewing gum, and styled "The Teaberry Shuffle". Bert Kaempfert, author of several songs covered by the Brass, returned the favor by issuing a cover of "The Mexican Shuffle". The number called "El Presidente", was a reorchestration of Sol Lake's "Winds of Barcelona", which had appeared on Volume 2.

The cover features Alpert and perennial HATB model Sandra Moss at the Patio del Moro apartment complex in West Hollywood.

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Track listing

1. "South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) - 2:06
2. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Norman Gimbel, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinícius de Moraes) - 2:35
3. "Hello, Dolly!" (Jerry Herman) - 1:55
4. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 2:25
5. "Up Cherry Street" (Julius Wechter) - 2:13
6. "Mexican Shuffle" (Sol Lake) - 2:09
7. "El Presidente" (Sol Lake) - 2:28
8. "All My Loving" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 1:53
9. "Angelito" (René Herrera, René Ornelas) - 2:20
10. "Salud, Amor y Dinero (Health, Love and Money)" (Sol Lake) - 2:05
11. "Número Cinco (Number Five)" (Ervan Coleman) - 2:19
12. "Adiós, Mi Corazón (Goodbye, My Heart)" (Sol Lake) - 2:39

References

• South of the Border at Allmusic.