Herb Alpert

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Herb Alpert, 1966
A&M Records
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: This Guy's In Love With You on a single - record of A & M Records

Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American trumpeter , musician and founder of the record label A&M Records .

life and career

Alpert grew up in a small Jewish settlement in West Los Angeles. He had some great instrumental hits with his band The Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. The first success was The Lonely Bull in 1962, followed by Tijuana Taxi , Spanish Flea , A Taste of Honey , Zorba the Greek and others. Alpert is considered to be the creator of the Tijuana brass sound, which combines traditional Mexican style of playing with jazz and funk .

In 1968 his first vocal hit This Guy's in Love with You came out, which reached first place in the US singles chart on June 22, 1968 and held this place for four weeks. After breaking with the Tijuana Brass Band, Herb Alpert was quiet until the comeback with the album Rise , which made it into the charts in 1979, and the released single Rise became his first instrumental hit at number one on the charts.

In 1987 the modern jazz funk vocal tracks Keep Your Eye on Me and Diamonds (in which Janet Jackson took over the vocal part) had success. Alpert subsequently recorded some solo parts on the artist's records. Together with Lou Adler and Sam Cooke he wrote Cooke's hit (What A) Wonderful World (1960).

72 million records were sold and he received eight Grammy Awards. With Jerry Moss he founded the record label A&M Records in 1962 . With this company he not only produced his own music, but also had the Carpenters , Cat Stevens , Liza Minnelli , Joe Cocker , Supertramp , Joe Jackson , The Police , Sting , Suzanne Vega , Carole King , Bryan Adams , Chris de Burgh and others Janet Jackson under contract.

He is also a painter, theater producer and looks after his “Herb Alpert Foundation”, which is dedicated to humanitarian causes and regularly donates large amounts for them.

Herb Alpert has two children with his divorced wife Sharon Lubin. He has been married to the singer Lani Hall since 1973 and has a daughter with her.

In 1994, the Alpert Awards in the Arts was awarded by the Herb Alpert Foundation (prize money: 75,000 US dollars).

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT UK UK US US R&B R&B
1965 South of the Border
A&M 108
- - - US6th
gold
gold

(163 weeks)US
-
First published: October 1964
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Whipped Cream & Other Delights
A&M 410
DE24 (24 weeks)
DE
- UK21 (22 weeks)
UK
US1
gold
gold

(185 weeks)US
-
First published: April 1965
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
!! Going Places !!
A&M 4112
DE28 (4 weeks)
DE
- UK4 (144 weeks)
UK
US1
gold
gold

(164 weeks)US
-
First published: October 1965
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
The Lonely Bull
A&M 101
- - - US10
gold
gold

(135 weeks)US
-
First published: December 1962
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
1966 Volume 2 (US) / Early Alpert (UK)
A&M 103
- - - US17th
gold
gold

(56 weeks)US
-
First published: December 1963
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
What Now My Love
A&M 4114
DE11 (32 weeks)
DE
- UK18 (17 weeks)
UK
US1
gold
gold

(129 weeks)US
-
First published: May 9, 1966
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
SRO
A&M 119
DE3 (28 weeks)
DE
- UK5 (26 weeks)
UK
US2
gold
gold

(85 weeks)US
-
First published: November 1966
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
1967 Sounds Like ...
A&M 4124
DE34 (12 weeks)
DE
- UK21 (10 weeks)
UK
US1
gold
gold

(53 weeks)US
-
First published: May 1, 1967
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Herb Alpert's Ninth
A&M 4134
DE9 (44 weeks)
DE
- UK26 (9 weeks)
UK
US4th
gold
gold

(49 weeks)US
-
First published: December 8, 1967
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
1968 The Beat of the Brass
A&M 4146
DE23 (16 weeks)
DE
- UK4 (21 weeks)
UK
US1
gold
gold

(54 weeks)US
-
First published: April 1968
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
1969 Warm
A&M 4190
- - UK30 (4 weeks)
UK
US28
gold
gold

(26 weeks)US
-
First published: June 1969
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
The Brass Are Comin '
A&M 4228
DE39 (4 weeks)
DE
- UK40 (1 week)
UK
US30 (20 weeks)
US
-
First published: October 1969
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
1971 Summertime
A&M 4314
- - - US111 (10 weeks)
US
-
First published: July 1971
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
1974 You Smile: The Song Begins
A&M 3620
- - - US66 (11 weeks)
US
-
First published: May 1974
with The Tijuana Brass
Producer: Herb Alpert
1975 Coney Island
A&M 4521
- - - US88 (10 weeks)
US
-
First release: October 1975
with The Tijuana Brass
Producer: Herb Alpert
1978 Herb Albert + Hugh Masekela
A&M 728
- - - US65 (19 weeks)
US
-
First published: January 1978
with Hugh Masekela
Producers: Caiphus Semenya , Herb Alpert, Stewart Levine
1979 Rise
A&M 4790
- - UK37
silver
silver

(7 weeks)UK
US6th
platinum
platinum

(39 weeks)US
R&B6 (31 weeks)
R&B
First published: September 1979
Producers: Herb Alpert, Randy Badazz, Andy Armer
1980 Beyond
A&M 3717
- - - US28 (12 weeks)
US
R&B26 (11 weeks)
R&B
First published: July 1980
Producers: Herb Alpert, Randy Badazz, Andy Armer
1981 Magic Man
A&M 3728
- - - US61 (10 weeks)
US
R&B39 (10 weeks)
R&B
First published: August 1981
Producers: Herb Alpert, Michael Stokes
1982 Fandango
A&M 3731
- - - US100 (26 weeks)
US
R&B52 (6 weeks)
R&B
First published: May 19821
Producers: Herb Alpert, José Quintana, Lisa Marie
1983 Blow Your Own Horn
A&M 4949
- - - US120 (8 weeks)
US
R&B49 (9 weeks)
R&B
First published: September 1983
Producers: Herb Alpert, Holland – Dozier – Holland ,
Randy Badazz, Andy Armer, José Quintana
1984 Bullish
A&M 5022
- AT15 (8 weeks)
AT
- US75 (10 weeks)
US
-
First published: August 1984
with The Tijuana Brass
Producers: Herb Alpert, John Barnes, Derek Nakamoto
1985 Wild Romance
A&M 5082
- - - US151 (10 weeks)
US
-
First published: August 1985
Producers: Herb Alpert, Romeo J. Williams
1987 Keep Your Eye on Me
A&M 5125
DE55 (5 weeks)
DE
- UK79 (3 weeks)
UK
US18th
gold
gold

(31 weeks)US
R&B5 (30 weeks)
R&B
First published: February 13, 1987
Producers: Herb Alpert, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis
1991 North on South St.
A&M 5345
- - - - R&B51 (15 weeks)
R&B
First published: August 1985
Producers: Herb Alpert, Greg Smith,
Robert Gerald, Jimmy B, Troy Staton

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Composer / musician for Lani Hall

Awards

Herb Alpert is US President Obama on July 10, 2013, the Medal of Honor National Medal of Arts award

literature

  • Irwin Stambler: The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul . 3rd Revised Edition, New York City, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989, ISBN 0-312-02573-4 , pp. 8-10

Web links

Commons : Herb Alpert  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. http://www.lamag.com/longform/herb-alpert-always-in-tune-11/
  2. Text and music by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; Producers: Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss; US catalog number: A&M 929.
  3. For more information on the title see: Bronson, Fred: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . 3rd revised and expanded edition. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, 1992, p. 242.
  4. ^ A Word With: Herb Alpert The Other Delights in a Trumpeter's Life , New York Times, March 3, 2013, accessed March 7, 2013
  5. http://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_int/01a_alpert.htm
  6. https://herbalpertawards.org/about
  7. Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US