Below are the tracks that were included with the original album, Whipped Creme and Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
And if you now get the CD, two other tracks are included as a bonus:
The most interesting of the songs to one person, and why he got the album all those many years ago (and the CD not so many years ago), was Love Potion #9, a personal favorite. This song, part of the
doo-wop wave of late 50 hits that included witch doctor and The Lion Sleeps Tonight had an interesting resurrection in the Early 90's
as a result of a 1992 movie. A poorly made but somewhat entertaining film was produced about a food additive company that experiments with a new chemical and finds out that this new addition has a interesting side effect: it's a love potion. With such a story line, it was inevitable that the title of this movie became Love Potion #9 and a new rendition of that song was used for the movie theme.
A movie such as this does not attract the interest of world class stars and the roles were played by relatively unknown actors and actresses looking for that big break. The movie would not even be mentioned in this web site except that the actress who played the lead female scientist in this movie, Love Potion #9, would in two years be involved in a movie where her role was to be at the helm of a terrifying bus ride through Los Angeles. Of course, we are speaking of Sandra Bullock who played Annie in one of the disk Coordinator's favorite movies, Speed.
Only on this web site, a site dedicated to Israeli dancing in the Philadelphia area, would some idiot attempt to fuse a doo-wop classic with a favorite movie while discussing the use of echo in audio production. Well, at least for some of you, a sign of relief can be heard that this narrative did not involve either British mystery authors or British counter intelligence agents.
And, to celebrate this folly, we have provided a button for you to listen to Herb Alpert's rendition of this Doo Wop classic, while the disk coordinator, from memory, provides you with the lyrics (from the original politically incorrect 1959 lyrics, the only lyrics he sings to himself while driving.)
I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth.
You know, the gypsy, with the gold front tooth.
She's got a shop at 34th & Vine,
Selling little bottles of Love Potion No. 9.
I told her that I was a flop with chicks.
It's been that way since 1956.
She looked at my palm and she made a magic sign.
She told me what I needed was, Love Potion No. 9.
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She jumped down, turned around, she said with a wink.
I think I make it now right here in the sink.
It smelled like terpentine, it looked like Indian ink.
I closed my eyes, I held my breath, I took a drink.
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I didn't know if it was day or night,
as I was kissin' everything in sight.
Until I kissed a cop at Hollywood and Vine,
and he broke my little bottle of Love Potion #9.