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Rating: The title doesn't leave much to the imagination. It's a collection of tracks from the first five albums of Herb Alpert, a Californian trumpeter with a love for Latin sounds, specifically Chicano.
For easy listening enthusiasts, it will be a real treat, a short and relaxing journey on the roads of jazz and pop, infused with Mexican spices (but bought in a Los Angeles department store). For everyone else, there will be the pleasure of listening again to A Taste of Honey, an exceptionally great instrumental, Grammy winner and the result of the genius of Ric Marlow and Rob Scott, as well as the theme of Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto...
This doesn't overshadow tracks like Spanish Flea, Never on Sunday, the divertissement of America and the spaghetti western-like Lonely Bull. The twist on Zorba the Greek isn't bad either.
In short, this work goes down our auditory canals just like an iced lemonade would on these scorching August days.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Spanish Flea (02:07)
There was a little spanish flea
A record star he thought he'd be
He heard of singers like Beetles
and The Chipmunks he'd seen on TV
Why not a little spanish flea?
And so he hid
Inside a doggie from madrid
He arrived in the city
Still singin his sweet harmony
As proud as any flea could be
He walked around
As if he owned the town
Humming his pint sized melody
With his guitar he knew he'd be a star
And in his own home town, how proud he'd be
Then all at once he met a man
Who said, "I'll help you if i can"
He listened close to his song
And then he sang right along for you see
He loved that little spanish flea
05 Never On Sunday (02:38)
Oh, you can kiss me on Monday, a Monday, a Monday is a very good day.
Or you can kiss me on Tuesday, a Tuasday, a Tuasday, in fect I wish you would.
Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday, a Thursday, a Friday and Saturday is best.
But never, never on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday, cause that's my day of rest.
Most any day you can be my guest. Any day you say, but my day of rest. Just name the day
That you like the best. Only stay away on my day of rest.
Oh, you can kiss me on cool day, a hot day, a wet day, whichever one you choose
Or try to kiss me on a gray day, a May day, a pay day, and see if I refuse.
And if you make it on a bleak day, a freak day, a week day, why you can be my guest.
But never, never on a Sunday, a Sunday, a Sunday, the one day I need a little rest.
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