Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Track List: 5-8
5. Never On Sunday (0:00)
6. Mexican Shuffle (2:43)
7. Taste Of Honey (4:57)
8. Tijuana Taxi (7:43)
Part 1. youtu.be/R5gpRodgb5I
Part 2. youtu.be/v0R15ZIFtfU
Part 3. youtu.be/gk8fEpJaAdc
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWvh9BoHZBq9bkEHdEh0pJfT-1qMzJpB
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWvh9BoHZBpBjqkcPlvxDYNBDuJ26IOr
Greatest Hits is a 1970 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It was the group's first compilation album, with all selections coming from its first five albums. The album was released a few months after Alpert had disbanded the group. It rose to No. 43 on the U.S. charts, and to No. 8 in the U.K. The album was eventually certified gold in the spring of 1971.
Greatest Hits was released during Alpert's four-year sabbatical from performing, when he concentrated instead on producing records for other artists signed to his A&M label.
Track List: 5-8
5. Never On Sunday (0:00)
6. Mexican Shuffle (2:43)
7. Taste Of Honey (4:57)
8. Tijuana Taxi (7:43)
Part 1. youtu.be/R5gpRodgb5I
Part 2. youtu.be/v0R15ZIFtfU
Part 3. youtu.be/gk8fEpJaAdc
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWvh9BoHZBq9bkEHdEh0pJfT-1qMzJpB
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWvh9BoHZBpBjqkcPlvxDYNBDuJ26IOr
Greatest Hits is a 1970 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. It was the group's first compilation album, with all selections coming from its first five albums. The album was released a few months after Alpert had disbanded the group. It rose to No. 43 on the U.S. charts, and to No. 8 in the U.K. The album was eventually certified gold in the spring of 1971.
Greatest Hits was released during Alpert's four-year sabbatical from performing, when he concentrated instead on producing records for other artists signed to his A&M label.
![Jim Croce - Operator (Thats Not The Way It Feels) (1972) Single
Track List:
1. Operator (Thats Not The Way It Feels) (0:00)
2. Rapid Roy (The Stock Car Boy) (3:47)
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4HEzRFNuOZ42_6W6grS-mgJ2pBYilTn0
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Operator (Thats Not the Way It Feels) is a 1972 song written by Jim Croce. Croces record was released on August 23, 1972. It was the second single released from Croces album You Dont Mess Around with Jim. It reached a peak of number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1972, spending twelve weeks on the chart.
Cash Box described the lyrics saying that in James Taylor fashion, Jim Croce tries to track down his long lost lover with the help of the operator.
The song relates one side of a conversation with a telephone operator. The speaker is trying to find the phone number of his former lover, who has moved to Los Angeles with his former best friend. He wants to demonstrate to both of them that he is well and over their betrayal, but admits to the operator that he is not. After the operator has given him the number, he is unable to read it, apparently due to the tears in his eyes. He then changes his mind and tells the operator not to place the call, appreciatively adding you can keep the dime (the then-standard toll he had deposited in a payphone).
The story was inspired during Croces military service, during which time he saw lines of soldiers waiting to use the outdoor phone on base, many of them calling their wives or girlfriends to see if their Dear John letter was true.
Record World called the song a strong story-telling tune in the Chuck Berry Memphis vein and said that the single is a near-perfect matching of this singer to the song.
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Operator, well could you help me place this call?
See, the number on the match book is old and faded
Shes living in L.A. with my best old ex-friend Ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated
[Chorus]
But isnt that the way they say it goes?
Well lets forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell em Im fine, and to show
Ive overcome the blow
Ive learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasnt real
But thats not the way it feels
[Verse 2]
Operator, well could you help me place this call?
Cause I cant read the number that you just gave me
Theres something in my eyes
You know it happens every time
I think about the love that I thought would save me
[Chorus]
But isnt that the way they say it goes?
Well lets forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell em Im fine, and to show
Ive overcome the blow
Ive learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasnt real
But thats not the way it feels
[Verse 3]
Operator, well lets forget about this call
Theres no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time
Ah, youve been so much more than kind
You can keep the dime
[Chorus]
But isnt that the way they say it goes?
Well lets forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell em Im fine, and to show
Ive overcome the blow
Ive learned to take it well
I only wish my words could just convince myself
That it just wasnt real
But thats not the way it feels Jim Croce - Operator (Thats Not The Way It Feels) (1972) Single](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v5SGNePbsrk/mqdefault.jpg)








![Eric Carmen - Eric Carmen (1975) 1/3
Track List: 1-4
1. Sunrise (0:00)
2. Thats Rock N Roll (5:22)
3. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again (8:34)
4. All By Myself (12:20)
Part 1. https://youtu.be/y9yaM3JMh2I
Part 2. https://youtu.be/e5SuhEzu9PM
Part 3. https://youtu.be/CAmDAIOSs0w
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWvh9BoHZBqxOF1mwzEfzfPAd6qAtNxT
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Eric Carmen is the debut album by American rock musician and singer-songwriter Eric Carmen. It is also his first of two self-titled albums, the other released in 1984. It peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard album chart upon its release in 1975, the highest position of his career, and generated the No. 2 pop single All by Myself in the same year. The song reached No. 1 on the Cashbox and Record World charts. The album also included two follow-up top 40 hits, Never Gonna Fall in Love Again (No. 11), and Sunrise (No. 34), both of which charted in 1976.
All tracks were written by Carmen except the Drifters song On Broadway, which was written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. This LP also contained Carmens original version of Thats Rock and Roll, which became a No. 3 hit for Shaun Cassidy in 1977.
The album was Carmens first solo production after leaving the Raspberries, a power pop group which scored several top 40 hits in the early 1970s.
Eric Carmen wrote all of the songs on the album except for On Broadway (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber). Several of his songs interpolate classical melodies:
Never Gonna Fall in Love Again is borrowed from Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoffs Symphony No. 2 in E minor.
All By Myself has elements from Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.
My Girl exploits a theme from Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No. 2.
Last Night quotes Etude Op. 10 No. 3 by Frédéric Chopin.
Personnel:
Eric Carmen - piano, lead vocals, guitar
Dan Hrdlicka - lead guitar, backing vocals
Steve Knill - bass, backing vocals
Richard Reising - synthesizer, organ, backing vocals
Dwight Krueger, Michael McBride - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Jackie Kelso - flute solo on Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
Hugh McCracken - slide guitar solo on All By Myself
Technical:
Arranged By – Eric Carmen
Art Direction – Bob Heimall
Design – Bob Heimall
Engineer – Jack Sherdel
Engineer [Assistant] – Joey Barbaria
Photography By – Norman Seeff
Producer – Jimmy Ienner Eric Carmen - Eric Carmen (1975) 1/3](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y9yaM3JMh2I/mqdefault.jpg)
