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Morning Open Thread Saturday Feb. 22, featuring music by Herb Alpert [1]
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Date: 2025-02-22
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Herb Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have appeared on the Billboard 200 Chart, five of which reached No. 1; he has been awarded 14 platinum albums and 15 gold albums.
Alpert has sold an estimated 72 million records worldwide. He has received many accolades, including a Tony Award and eight Grammy Awards. In 2006, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
He personally funded the production of ‘The Lonely Bull’ as a single, and it spread through radio DJs until it caught on and became a Top 10 hit in the fall of 1962. He followed up quickly with his debut album, The Lonely Bull by "Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass". Originally the Tijuana Brass was just Alpert overdubbing his own trumpet, slightly out of sync.
The title cut reached No. 6 on the Billboard Pop Chart. For this album and subsequent releases, Alpert recorded with the group of Los Angeles session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew.
Alpert's 1965 album Whipped Cream And Other Delights proved so popular — it was the number one album of 1966, outselling The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and The Rolling Stones — that Alpert had to turn the Tijuana Brass into an actual touring ensemble rather than a studio band.
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In the 1980s Alpert created the Herb Alpert Foundation, the foundation supports youth and arts education.
In 2012, the foundation granted more than $5 million to the Harlem School Of The Arts, which allowed the school to retire its debt, restore its endowment and create a scholarship program for needy students. In 2013, the school's building was renamed the Herb Alpert Center. In 2016, Alpert's foundation also bestowed a $10.1 million donation to Los Angeles City College to provide music majors with a tuition-free education, the largest gift to an individual community college in the history of Southern California, and the second-largest gift in the history of the state. In 2020, Alpert bestowed an additional $9.7 million on the Harlem School of the Arts to upgrade its facility.
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The Lonely Bull
Tijuana Taxi
A Taste Of Honey
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