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{{Infobox album
| name = Sounds Like...
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass]]
| cover = HerbAlpertSoundsLike.JPG
| alt =
| released = May 1, 1967
| recorded = 1967
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Easy listening]], [[Pop music|pop]]
| length = 27:21
| label = [[A&M Records|A&M]]<br /><small>A&M 212001</small>
| producer = [[Herb Alpert]], [[Jerry Moss]]
| prev_title = [[S.R.O. (album)|S.R.O.]]
| prev_year = 1966
| next_title = [[Herb Alpert's Ninth]]
| next_year = 1967
}}
'''''Sounds Like...''''' is a 1967 album by the instrumental group [[Herb Alpert|Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass]]. It is the group's eighth album.

==Background==
According to liner notes in the 2006 [[Shout! Factory|Shout!Factory]] CD release, the title theme for the 1967 [[James Bond]] spoof ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]'' was originally recorded with vocals, but Bacharach was dissatisfied with the recording. He sent the tapes to Herb Alpert, who overdubbed some trumpets, and some Tijuana Brass instruments (most prominently marimba and percussion) and sent the song back to Bacharach. This version, with the Bacharach orchestra, rather than the Brass members, providing most of the backing, is the one included on the ''Sounds Like...'' album.

The song "[[Wade in the Water]]" was also a popular concert number, according to Alpert, and was featured in the group's first television special in 1967.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38RB6BL9iI|title=Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Wade in the Water Video 1967|last=|first=|date=|website=[[YouTube]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 =[[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |first=Richard |last=Ginell |title= ''Sounds Like...'' > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= mw0000656019 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=[[Allmusic]] |accessdate=October 4, 2021}}</ref>
}}
In a retrospective review for [[Allmusic]], music critic Richard S. Ginell wrote the album was "fresh and musical and downright joyous" and summarized it was "an artifact of '60s pop culture, to be sure, but still a perfectly structured record."<ref name="AM" />

==Track listing==
===Side 1===
# "[[Bye Bye Birdie (musical)|Gotta Lotta Livin' to Do]]" ([[Lee Adams]], [[Charles Strouse]]) - 2:47
# "[[Lady Godiva (song)|Lady Godiva]]" (Charlie Mills, [[Mike Leander]]) - 2:06
# "Bo-Bo" (Sol Lake) - 3:04
# "Shades of Blue" ([[Julius Wechter]]) - 2:44
# "[[In a Little Spanish Town]]" ([[Mabel Wayne]], [[Joe Young (lyricist)|Joe Young]], [[Sam M. Lewis]]) - 1:54
# "[[Wade in the Water]]" (Traditional, arranged by [[John Pisano]], Edmondson and Alpert) - 3:03

===Side 2===
# "[[Town Without Pity (song)|Town Without Pity]]" ([[Dimitri Tiomkin]], [[Ned Washington]]) - 2:14
# "The Charmer" (John Pisano) - 2:13
# "Treasure of San Miguel" ([[Roger Nichols (songwriter)|Roger Nichols]]) - 2:14
# "Miss Frenchy Brown" ([[Ervan Coleman]]) - 2:27
# "[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]" ([[Hal David]], [[Burt Bacharach]]) - 2:35

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
!Chart (1967)
!Peak<br/>position
|-
| US ''Billboard'' Top LPs
|align="center"|1
|-
|}

== See also==
*[[List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1967]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

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[[Category:1967 albums]]
[[Category:Herb Alpert albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Herb Alpert]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Jerry Moss]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at Gold Star Studios]]
[[Category:A&M Records albums]]

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