Said reviewer Steve Leggett of AllMusic, "The album has an easygoing feel very similar to Lopez's classic live sets from the 1960s, only it rocks a good deal harder." Thereafter, Lopez focused on charitable work.
The album used the "Texas Roots Combo" including Lopez, Greenhaw, and Lopez's brother, Jesse. In 2002, Lopez teamed with Art Greenhaw for Legacy: My Texas Roots. He continued his musical career with extensive tours of Europe and Latin America during this period an attempt to break out by releasing a disco album in 1978 proved a flop.
The soundtrack, released as The Trini Lopez Show, has him singing his hits with The Ventures as his backing band. In 1969, NBC aired a Trini Lopez variety special featuring surf guitar group The Ventures, and Nancy Ames as guests. Lopez produced a single promoting the Coca-Cola soft drink Fresca in 1967. In 1968, he recorded an album in Nashville entitled Welcome to Trini Country (R/RS 6300). Beyond his success on record, he became one of the country's top nightclub performers of that era, regularly headlining in Las Vegas.
I just happen to like the chorus.” On the adult contemporary chart, he racked up 15 hits, including the top-10 singles "Michael" (1964), "Gonna Get Along Without Ya' Now" (1967), and "The Bramble Bush" (1967), which he sang in the movie The Dirty Dozen. It’s one of my most favorite requested songs. Later in 2013, Lopez told Portland Magazine, “People ask about ‘Lemon Tree’ all the time. Lopez scored 13 chart singles through 1968, including " Lemon Tree" (1965), "I'm Comin' Home, Cindy" (1966), and "Sally Was a Good Old Girl" (1968). Trini Lopez and Pat Boone during a tennis event at Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 1975) Another live album from PJ's was recorded later that same year under the title By Popular Demand More Trini Lopez at PJ's (R/RS 6103), which contains the song Green, Green which was written by Randy Sparks and Barry McGuire and originally recorded by the New Christy Minstrels earlier that year for their Columbia album Ramblin. He also performed his own version of the traditional Mexican song " La Bamba" on the album his recording of the tune was later reissued as a single in 1966. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. 3 in the United States), and was a radio favorite for many years. The album included a version of Pete Seeger's " If I Had a Hammer", which reached number one in 36 countries (no. His debut live album, Trini Lopez at PJ's (R/RS 6093), was released in 1963. He was heard there by Frank Sinatra, who had started his own label, Reprise Records, and who subsequently signed Lopez. He landed a steady engagement at the nightclub PJ's, where his audience grew quickly. After a few weeks of auditions in Los Angeles, that idea did not go through. In late 1962, after the King contract expired, Lopez followed up on an offer by producer Snuff Garrett to join the post-Holly Crickets as vocalist. Lopez left the group and made his first solo recording, his own composition "The Right To Rock", for the Dallas-based Volk Records, and then signed with King Records in 1959, recording more than a dozen singles for that label, none of which charted. Petty secured a contract for them with Columbia Records, which released the single "Clark's Expedition"/"Big Boy", both instrumental. In 1957, at the recommendation of Buddy Holly's father, Trini and his group "The Big Beats" went to producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico.
Around 1955/56 Lopez and his band worked at The Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby, the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald. Lopez formed his first band in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age of 15.