Volume 2 (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album)

Volume 2
Studio album by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Released	December 1963
Genre	Easy listening, pop
Label	A&M
Producer	Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass chronology
The Lonely Bull (1962) Volume 2 (1963) South of the Border (1964)

Volume 2 is the second album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, known in this recording as "Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass". It was released in 1963 on A&M Records, and sold poorly upon initial release.

Background

After the Tijuana Brass became massively popular with hits from their later albums, Volume 2 was reissued in 1966 and eventually reached No. 17 on the Billboard album chart. A CD version of the album was issued by A&M Records in 1990 but is now out of print. Some LP copies of the album have a spoken introduction by Herb Alpert at the beginning of "The Great Manolete (La Virgen de la Macarena)".

It was made available digitally for download in February 2007 at the same time as the reissues of the 1969 albums Warm and The Brass Are Comin'. No CD reissue of Volume 2 was available for years, as Alpert reportedly felt that the album was of inferior technical quality.^{[citation needed]} On September 9, 2016, Volume 2, along with 23 of Herb's other albums, was reissued on CD on the Herb Alpert Presents label.

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Allmusic	[2]

In a retrospective review for