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   You say "of course", Sir Barr...but alas, I was NOT aware that the Teaberry   
   Shuffle was derivative of Herb Alpert and the Marij--er, TIjuana Brass.   
      
   Now that you mention it, I do vaguely recall that Alpert & Co. tune.  As it   
   happens, I WAS however intimately familiar with their considerab   
   y-less-celebrated hispanic sister act on A&M Records, Julius Wechter and the   
   Baja Marimba Band.  My musician    
   older brother was seriously into them, and I as a consequence started hearing   
   them circa 1966.  (But it never occurred to me while spinning their LPs back   
   in St. Louis that Wechter might in fact be Jewish, rather than Latin American.)   
      
   And decades later, celebrity-hound yours truly was stunned and delighted by   
   this only-in-Hollywood development during in the mid-1980s:   
      
   Twice I found myself working in a two-man law office on Santa Monica Blvd., in   
   West Los Angeles; it was just good ol' paralegal me under old-school, veteran   
   Los Angeles Jewish community solo-practitioner attorney Francis Mintz.  But   
   imagine my surprise    
   that the late Wechter--who died Monday, February 1, 1999--and his charming and   
   stylish wife Cecile were longtime clients of Francis Mintz Professional   
   Corporation!   
      
   Got to know each of them fairly well during my two stints under Mintz; they   
   lived in a fancy Beverly Hills home with all sorts of celebrity neighbors but   
   a block or so away, yet the couple always nonetheless seemed flattered that a   
   longtime Baja Marimba    
   Band devotee was backing up Mintz.  And of course during their periodic office   
   visits, I always endeavored to not be too obvious in regarding them like the   
   showbiz royalty I considered them.   
      
   BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
      
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