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Full pre-order links and track info are below. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Moss in 2006, Alpert continues to add trophies to his collection, including two big ones in 2013: a National Medal of the Arts and his eighth career Grammy Award for the album Steppin' Out. He continues to record and tour, often alongside Brasil '66 singer Lani Hall - his wife since 1973 - and also devotes time to sculpture and donating a significant portion of his fortune to music education programs, including UCLA and CalArts. His last major Top 5 hit was 1987's "Diamonds," a duet with Janet Jackson, A&M's newest star at the time (with writing and production from longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.) After years of independence, Alpert and Moss sold A&M to Polygram in 1987 for a reported $500 million since then, the duo created another label, Almo Sounds, which became Alpert's recording home for several years. Through it all, Alpert kept recording, scoring another chart-topper with the disco instrumental "Rise" in 1979.
Since then, A&M has been home to blockbuster artists including Joe Cocker, The Captain & Tennille, The Police, Peter Frampton, Styx, Squeeze, Sheryl Crow, Soundgarden, and many more.
Their rendition was the second best-selling single of the year. Two years later, in 1970, Alpert sent another song by the duo, (They Long To Be) Close To You," to a recent A&M signee: the Carpenters. 1 on the Hot 100 and Alpert's first vocal to chart. 1 hit with Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "This Guy's In Love With You" (which he had introduced on the CBS television special The Beat of the Brass).
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He quickly assembled a crack team of session players as The Tijuana Brass, and became a certified hitmaker with a series of instrumental jazz records, most notably 1965's landmark Whipped Cream & Other Delights.Īlpert had an incredible knack for pushing the talents of others beyond his own not long after Whipped Cream's hit "A Taste of Honey" took home a Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Alpert signed Sérgio Mendes & Brasil '66 to A&M. A&M Records had an out-of-the-gate smash with Alpert's own mariachi-influenced "The Lonely Bull," a No. Working out of a combination office/recording studio above Alpert's garage, the label was intended to bear the name Carnival Records but renamed after the duo's initials. In 1961, after a brief stint attempting to break out as a vocalist, Alpert and record promoter Jerry Moss decided to go into business together with their own label. DeMille's 1957 adaptation of The Ten Commandments.) From there, he became a staff songwriter for Keen Records, co-penning hits for Jan & Dean ("Baby Talk") and Sam Cooke ("Wonderful World"). (Look closely and you might find him as a drummer on Mt. Available on either three CDs or five LPs, the set comes with a deluxe 180-page booklet featuring photos, credits and an extensive essay by critic Bud Scoppa - all packaged in a custom-designed slipcase with a "screen-printed, smoked acrylic window."īorn and raised in Los Angeles to a family of musicians, Alpert was a member of the fabled University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band, and shortly thereafter got a job on the Paramount lot. The box set Herb Alpert Is., to be released through his own Herb Alpert Presents label, will compile 63 tracks from his storied studio output - those legendary early years with The Tijuana Brass all the way to various strengths in the '70s and '80s through today. Just one day later, a new overview of his storied musical career is due. A trumpet player, songwriter, label co-founder, sculptor and philanthropist - Alpert is all these things and more, and they're all due to be on display in a forthcoming documentary, appropriately titled Herb Alpert Is. There are truly few in the music business like Herb Alpert.