''Sounds Like...'' is a 1967 album by the group Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It is the group's eighth album.

Background

According to liner notes in the 2006 Shout!Factory CD release, the title theme for the 1967

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spoof '' Casino Royale'' was originally recorded with vocals, but Bacharach was dissatisfied with the recording. He sent the tapes to Herb Alpert, who overdubbed some trumpets, and some Tijuana Brass instruments (most prominently marimba and percussion) and sent the song back to Bacharach. This version, with the Bacharach orchestra, rather than the Brass members, providing most of the backing, is the one included on the ''Sounds Like...'' album. The song "

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" was also a popular concert number, according to Alpert, and was featured in the group's first television special in 1967.

Critical reception

In a retrospective review for

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, music critic Richard S. Ginell wrote the album was "fresh and musical and downright joyous" and summarized it was "an artifact of '60s pop culture, to be sure, but still a perfectly structured record."

Track listing

Side 1

# " Gotta Lotta Livin' to Do" (

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, Joe Young,

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Side 2

# " Town Without Pity" (

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) - 2:14 # "The Charmer" (John Pisano) - 2:13 # "Treasure of San Miguel" ( Roger Nichols) - 2:14 # "Miss Frenchy Brown" ( Ervan Coleman) - 2:27 # " Casino Royale" (

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Charts

References

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