Herb Alpert and the TJB
- Date
1974
- Summary
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Musical television special, hosted by and featuring Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Miss Piggy (then just Piggy) appears for the first time on television as an aspiring singer whose agent tries to get her a record deal with Alpert. Other highlights from the show include: skits with Alpert and the Muppets; Alpert and the Tijuana Brass perform Spanish flea with Muppet dancers; guest, Lani Hall performs two songs including a duet with Alpert; and a Muppet interpretation of the music of Herb Alpert and the Tijauna Brass.
- Contributors
Hall, Lani; Henson, Jim; Alpert, Herb; Farrell, Marty; Hemion, Dwight; Oz, Frank
- Publishers
Tijuana Brass; Smith-Hemion Productions
- Genre
Television specials
- Subjects
American Culture; Performing Arts, Music; Piggy, Miss (Fictitious character); Muppets (Fictitious characters)
- Locations
North America; United States of America
- Collection
The Jim Henson Works at the University of Maryland
- Unit
Special Collections in Performing Arts
- Language
English
- Terms of Use
Access restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
045 minutes; color
- Notes
Creation/Production Credits
Muppet performer, Frank Oz.
- Other Identifiers
Catalog Key: umd:1139; Catalog Key: alephsys003334417; Catalog Key: HENSON 060; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/408
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