Junk Box Jury

Taken from the LP ‘Lennon & McCartney Tijuana Style’ | (Music For Pleasure MFP 1318) July 1969

The Torero Band | “Eleanor Rigby” | (Music For Pleasure) | It’s a long way from the fogs of Merseyside to the blazing sun of Tijuana, but in musical terms the Journey is easily made. The musical sounds that were born In these two places have long ago circled the earth.

In the same year that the Beatles were topping the British hit parade for the first time, a new sound was being heard in the American popular charts — a sound that had been borrowed from the ‘mariachi’ street bands of Mexico.

Now both the ‘Tijuana’ style of music and the hit songs made famous by the Beatles are to be heard in every corner of the globe, and the surprising thing is that the two have so rarely been brought together; for the songs of John Lennon and Paul McCartney have the kind of straightforward tunefulness that makes them the ideal subject for the Tijuana treatment.

On this album twelve of John and Paul’s greatest songs are to be heard in sunny and sophisticated new arrangements. The Lennon-McCartney songbook is covered from the ‘Yeah-Yeah’ days of ‘She Loves You’ right up to the subtler sounds of the present-day Beatles — but the songs’ own very individual characters have not been lost.

The Torero Band | “Eleanor Rigby” | (Music For Pleasure)

‘Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da’ keeps its relaxing Caribbean beat, there’s plenty of zany comedy left in ‘Yellow Submarine’, and ‘Eleanor Rigby’ retains its touching beauty.

As with Music for Pleasure’s previous Tijuana-style LPs, we are sure that this mixture of the warm sound of Mexico with the world’s most popular tunes will not fail to entertain you and give you pleasure.

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cost of record: £1.50
from: charity shop