Herb Alpert: It's long way to Tijuana
Paul Sexton, The Times, 10 July 1996
POP MUSIC. The mid-1960s. The era when Britannia apparently ruled the airwaves. Yet consider the American album chart of 30 years ago this week. The Top Ten is a Brit-free zone. The soundtracks to Dr Zhivago and The Sound of Music are selling well. The cardigan brigade, represented by Andy Williams and Frank Sinatra, is vying with the Mamas and the Papas. But one figure towers over them all.
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