Herb Alpert
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Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician, who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (sometimes called Herb Alpert and the TJB) in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.
Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have appeared on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, five of which reached No. 1; he has been awarded 14 platinum albums and 15 gold albums. Alpert is the only musician to have reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) and as an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979).Template:Efn
Alpert has sold an estimated 72 million records worldwide.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He has received many accolades, including a Tony Award and eight Grammy Awards,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Alpert was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama in 2012.
Early life and career
Herb Alpert was born on March 31, 1935<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and raised in Boyle Heights,<ref name="bh">Template:Cite news</ref> an Eastside<ref name="ela">Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.<ref name=BBC4>Template:Cite web</ref> He was the youngest of three children (a daughter and two sons)<ref name="Scheinfeld">Template:Cite book</ref> born to Tillie (née Goldberg) and Louis Leib (or Louis Bentsion-Leib) Alpert.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> His parents were Jewish immigrants to the U.S. from Radomyshl (in present-day Ukraine) and Romania.<ref name="herbert">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=NDN>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name ="Perlmutter"/>
Alpert was born into a family of musicians. His father, although a tailor by trade, was also a mandolin player. His mother taught violin at a young age, and his older brother, David, was a drummer.<ref name="bookref1">Template:Cite book</ref> His sister Mimi, who was the oldest,<ref name="BBC4" /> played the piano.<ref name="Scheinfeld" /> Alpert began to play trumpet at eight years old.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Alpert started attending Fairfax High School beginning in 10th grade. In 11th grade (1952) he was a member of their gymnastics team. One of his specialties was performing on the rings, but an appendectomy a week before a League Meet sidelined him. In his senior year (1953), he began focusing on his trumpet.Template:Cn
While attending the University of Southern California in the 1950s,<ref name="newspapers/77172652"/> he was a member of the USC Trojan Marching Band for two years. Alpert served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and played in the 6th Army Band.<ref name="lamag">Herb Alpert: Always in Tune Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved April 13, 2023.</ref><ref name="wrtv">Herb Alpert; the legend who recently hit one more musical milestone WRTV. Retrieved April 13, 2023.</ref><ref name="walk of fame">Herb Alpert Hollywood Walk of Fame. Retrieved April 13, 2023.</ref> In 1956, he appeared in an uncredited role as "Drummer on Mt. Sinai" in The Ten Commandments.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1957, Alpert teamed up with Lou Adler, another burgeoning lyricist, as a songwriter for Keen Records. A number of songs written or co-written by Alpert during the following two years became Top 20 hits, including "Baby Talk" by Jan and Dean and "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke.<ref name="herbalpert.com">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1960, he began his recording career as a vocalist at RCA Records under the name of Dore Alpert.<ref name=herbert /> In 1962, Alpert and his new business partner Jerry Moss formed Carnival Records with "Tell It to the Birds" as its first release, distribution outside of Los Angeles being done by Dot Records. After Carnival released its second single "Love Is Back In Style" by Charlie Robinson, Alpert and Moss found that there was prior usage of the Carnival name and renamed their label A&M Records.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
The Tijuana Brass years
The song that jump-started Alpert's performing career was originally titled "Twinkle Star", written by Sol Lake (who would write many Tijuana Brass songs over the next decade).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Alpert was dissatisfied with his first efforts to record the song, then took a break to visit a bullfight in Tijuana, Mexico. As Alpert later recounted, "That's when it hit me! Something in the excitement of the crowd, the traditional mariachi music, the trumpet call heralding the start of the fight, the yelling, the snorting of the bulls, it all clicked."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Alpert adapted the tune to the trumpet style, mixed in crowd cheers and other noises for ambience, and renamed the song "The Lonely Bull".<ref name=pc24>Template:Cite web</ref>
He personally funded the production of the record 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
It was A&M's first album (with the original release number being 101), although it was recorded for Conway Records. 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, whom he holds in high regard.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Alpert's 1965 album Whipped Cream & 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. Some of that popularity might be attributable to the album's notoriously racy cover, which featured model Dolores Erickson seemingly clothed only in whipped cream. (In a chat with the audience during his concert in Milwaukee on 6 October 2025, Mr. Alpert confirmed "it was shaving cream, not whipped cream".) However, as writer Bruce Handy pointed out in a Billboard article, two other Brass albums, Going Places (1965) and What Now My Love (1966), "held the third and fifth spots on the 1966 year-end chart despite pleasant yet far more anodyne covers."<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Another measure of the band's popularity is that a number of Tijuana Brass songs were used as theme music for years by the ABC TV game show The Dating Game.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1966, a short animated film by John and Faith Hubley called "A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature" was released; it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1967. The film featured two songs by the band, "Tijuana Taxi" and "Spanish Flea".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Also in 1967, the Tijuana Brass performed Burt Bacharach's title cut to the first movie version of Casino Royale.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Alpert's only No. 1 single during this period, and the first No. 1 hit for his A&M label, was a solo effort: "This Guy's in Love with You", written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, featuring a rare vocal.<ref name=pc24/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Alpert sang it to his first wife in a 1968 CBS Television special titled Beat of the Brass. The sequence was filmed on the beach in Malibu. The song was not intended to be released, but after it was used in the television special, allegedly thousands of telephone calls to CBS asking about it convinced Alpert to release it as a single, two days after the show aired.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Although Alpert's vocal skills and range were limited, the song's technical demands suited him.<ref>Campbell, Mary. "Herb Alpert Talks About Singing", Nashua Telegraph (New Hampshire), Associated Press, December 7, 1968, p. 3:
" ...By usual standards, I don't have a great instrument as a vocalist. But maybe there is a basic truth that comes across..."</ref>
After years of success, Alpert had a personal crisis in 1969, declaring "the trumpet is my enemy." He disbanded the Tijuana Brass, and stopped performing in public.<ref name ="Perlmutter">Template:Cite web</ref> Eventually he sought out teacher Carmine Caruso, "who never played trumpet a day in his life, (but) he was a great trumpet teacher."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> "What I found," Alpert told The New York Times, "is that the thing in my hands is just a piece of plumbing. The real instrument is me, the emotions, not my lip, not my technique, but feelings I learned to stuff away—as a kid who came from a very unvocal household. Since then, I've been continually working it out, practicing religiously and now, playing better than ever."<ref name ="Perlmutter"/> The results were noticeable; as Richard S. Ginell wrote in an AllMusic review of Alpert's comeback album, You Smile - The Song Begins, "His four-year sabbatical over, Herb Alpert returned to the studio creatively refreshed, his trumpet sounding more soulful and thoughtful, his ears attuned more than ever to jazz."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Post-Brass musical career and "Rise"
In 1979, five years after his last chart hit with the Tijuana Brass, Alpert attempted a disco album of rearranged Brass hits. "It just sounded awful to me," Alpert was quoted later. "I didn't want any part of it." But because the musicians were already booked, Alpert recorded other material, including the instrumental "Rise" (with initial version created by Alpert's nephew, Randy "Badazz" Alpert and his close friend, musician Andy Armer). The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 after it was used repeatedly on the soap opera General Hospital. The song also became a hit in the UK, but in a speeded-up version, due to British DJs not realizing that the American 12" single was recorded at 33 rpm instead of 45 rpm.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Its bass line would later be included in The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize”, which itself would reach number one on the Hot 100.<ref name="Wikipedia Liner Notes from Life After Death">Liner Notes, Liner notes from both Life After Death as well as Hypnotize reference this sample.</ref>
Over the next two decades, Alpert released an album nearly every year. He has released more than a dozen records since 2006.
In 2013, Alpert released Steppin' Out, which won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Since that time, he has released several other albums, most recently 50 (claimed to be his 50th studio album) and has said he has plans for his next two LPs, one of which will be another Christmas album—his third.
In late 2024, Alpert formed a new Tijuana Brass group, which went on tour in 2025, to celebrate the landmark Whipped Cream and Other Delights album. The tour is titled "Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass & Other Delights."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The band members (besides Alpert) are: Ray Brinker (drums), Kris Bergh (trumpet, percussion), Hussain Jiffry (bass), Bill Cantos (keyboards, marimba, percussion, vocals), Ryan Dragon (trombone, percussion) and Kerry Marx (guitar).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
A&M Records
Template:Main On October 11, 1989, Philips subsidiary PolyGram announced its acquisition of A&M Records for $500 million.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Alpert and co-owner/business partner Jerry Moss later received an extra $200 million payment for PolyGram's breach of the terms of the deal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Visual arts
Alpert has a second career as an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor with group and solo exhibitions around the United States and Europe. The 2010 sculpture exhibition "Herb Alpert: Black Totems" in Beverly Hills brought media attention to his visual work.<ref name=article>Cheng, Scarlet. "Herb Alpert's sculptures, like visual jazz", Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2010.</ref> His 2013 exhibition in Santa Monica included both abstract paintings and large totemlike sculptures.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Awards and honors
In May 2000, Alpert was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1977, for his contribution to the recording industry, Alpert was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6929 Hollywood Boulevard.
At the 1997 Billboard Latin Music Awards Alpert received the El Premio Billboard award for his contributions to Latin music.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Alpert and Moss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006, as non-performer lifetime achievers for their work at A&M.
Alpert was awarded the Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award by Society of Singers in 2009.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Alpert was awarded a 2012 National Medal of Arts award by Barack and Michelle Obama on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, in the White House's East Room.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Philanthropy
In the 1980s Alpert created the Herb Alpert Foundation and the Alpert Awards in the Arts with the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The foundation supports youth and arts education as well as environmental issues, and helps fund the PBS series Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason and later Moyers & Company.
Alpert and his wife donated $30 million to University of California, Los Angeles in 2007 to form and endow the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as part of the restructured UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. He donated $24 million, including $15 million from April 2008, to CalArts for its music curricula, and provided funding for the culture-jamming activists the Yes Men.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2020, Alpert bestowed an additional $9.7 million on the Harlem School of the Arts to upgrade its facility.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Alpert founded the Louis and Tillie Alpert Music Center in Jerusalem, which brings together both Arab and Jewish students.<ref name="foundation">Template:Cite web</ref>
Business ventures
In the late 1980s, Alpert started H. Alpert and Co., a short-lived perfume company, which sold products in high-end department stores such as Nordstrom. The company launched with two scents, Listen and Listen for Men. Alpert compared perfume to music, with high and low notes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In partnership with his daughter Eden, in 2004 Alpert opened Vibrato, a jazz club and restaurant located in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
As of 2025, Alpert's net worth is estimated at $850 million, largely due to his music career and the sale of A&M Records to Interscope Records.<ref name="Yahoo2025">Template:Cite web</ref>
Documentaries
On September 17, 2010, the TV documentary Legends: Herb Alpert – Tijuana Brass and Other Delights premiered on BBC4.<ref name=BBC>BBC "Legends: Herb Alpert – Tijuana Brass and Other Delights" BBC Legends Series. Retrieved September 1, 2010.</ref>
In 2020, Herb Alpert Is..., a documentary written and directed by John Scheinfeld, was released.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Personal life
Alpert married Sharon Mae Lubin at the Presidio of San Francisco in 1956.<ref name="newspapers/77172652">Template:Cite news</ref> They had 2 children, Dore (born 1960) and Eden (born 1966).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The couple divorced in 1971. In 1974, Alpert married Lani Hall, once the lead singer of A&M group Brasil '66.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Alpert and Hall have a daughter, actress Aria Alpert, born in 1976.<ref name ="Perlmutter"/>
Hall and Alpert recorded a live album, Anything Goes, in 2009; a studio album, I Feel You, in 2011;<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and another studio album, Steppin' Out, in 2013. An AllMusic review concluded: "Ultimately, Steppin' Out represents not just the third album in a trilogy, but a loving creative partnership that, for Alpert and Hall, spans a lifetime."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As of 2025 the couple still perform together.
Discography
Studio albums
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| The Lonely Bull | 1962 | 10 | — | — | — | — |
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| Volume 2 | 1963 | 17 | — | — | — | — |
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| South of the Border | 1964 | 6 | — | — | — | — |
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| Whipped Cream & Other Delights | 1965 | 1 | — | — | 10 | 21 |
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| Going Places | 1 | — | 28 | 5 | 4 |
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| What Now My Love | 1966 | 1 | — | 11 | 20 | 18 |
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| S.R.O. | 2 | — | 3 | 17 | 5 |
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| Sounds Like... | 1967 | 1 | — | 34 | 13 | 21 |
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| Herb Alpert's Ninth | 4 | — | 9 | 7 | 26 |
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| The Beat of the Brass | 1968 | 1 | — | 23 | 8 | 4 |
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| Christmas Album | 1968 | — | — | — | — | — |
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| Warm | 1969 | 28 | — | — | 14 | 30 |
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| The Brass Are Comin' | 30 | — | 39 | — | 40 | ||
| Summertime | 1971 | 111 | — | — | — | — | |
| You Smile – The Song Begins | 1974 | 66 | — | — | — | — | |
| Coney Island | 1975 | 88 | — | — | — | — | |
| Just You and Me | 1976 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela | 1978 | 65 | — | — | — | — | |
| Rise | 1979 | 6 | — | — | 21 | 37 |
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| Beyond | 1980 | 28 | — | — | — | — | |
| Magic Man | 1981 | 61 | — | — | — | — | |
| Fandango | 1982 | 100 | — | — | — | — | |
| Blow Your Own Horn | 1983 | 120 | — | — | — | — | |
| Bullish | 1984 | 75 | — | — | — | — | |
| Wild Romance | 1985 | 151 | — | — | — | — | |
| Keep Your Eye on Me | 1987 | 18 | — | 55 | — | 79 |
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| Under a Spanish Moon | 1988 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| My Abstract Heart | 1989 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| North on South St. | 1991 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Midnight Sun | 1992 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Second Wind<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 1996 | — | 7 | — | — | — | |
| Passion Dance<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 1997 | — | 8 | — | — | — | |
| Colors<ref name="auto">Template:Cite web</ref> | 1999 | — | 43 | — | — | — | |
| Whipped Cream & Other Delights ReWhipped<ref name="auto"/> | 2006 | — | 2 | — | — | — | |
| I Feel You (with Lani Hall)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2011 | — | 5 | — | — | — | |
| Steppin' Out (with Lani Hall)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2013 | — | 11 | — | — | — | |
| In the Mood<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2014 | 172 | 3 | — | — | — | |
| Come Fly with Me<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2015 | — | 7 | — | — | — | |
| Human Nature<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2016 | — | 10 | — | — | — | |
| Music Volume 1<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2017 | — | 3 | — | — | — | |
| The Christmas Wish<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | — | 2 | — | — | — | ||
| Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines the Tijuana Brass<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
2018 | — | 6 | — | — | — | |
| Over the Rainbow<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2019 | — | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Catch the Wind<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Sunny Side of the Street<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 2022 | ||||||
| Wish Upon a Star<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="billboard-wish">Template:Cite magazine</ref> | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 50 | 2024 | — | 17 | — | — | — | |
Compilations
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||
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| Greatest Hits | 1970 | 43 | — | — | 8 |
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| Solid Brass | 1972 | 135 | — | — | — | — |
| Herb Alpert & Friends Box Set | 1973 | — | — | — | — |
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| 40 Greatest | 1977 | — | — | — | 45 | — |
| Classics Volume 1 | 1986 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Classics Volume 20 | 1986 | --- | - | - | - | - |
| The Very Best Of Herb Alpert | 1991 | — | — | — | 34 | — |
| Definitive Hits | 2001 | — | 7 | 12 | — | — |
| Herb Alpert Is... | 2020 | - | - | - | - | - |
Singles
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| "The Trial" Template:Small |
1958 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Sweet Georgia Brown" b/w "Viper's Blues" Template:Small |
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| "The Hully Gully" b/w "Kiss Me" Template:Small |
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| "Finders Keepers" Template:Small |
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| "Gonna Get a Girl" Template:Small |
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| "Tell It to the Birds" b/w "Fallout Shelter" Template:Small |
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| "The Lonely Bull" | 6 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Lonely Bull | |
| "Struttin' with Maria" | 1963 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
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| "Marching Thru Madrid" | 96 | — | — | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Volume 2 | |
| "Mexican Corn" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "America" | — | — | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
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| "Mexican Drummer Man" | 77 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Mexican Shuffle" | 85 | 19 | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | South of the Border | |
| "El Presidente" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "South of the Border" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Whipped Cream" | 1965 | 68 | 13 | — | 99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Whipped Cream & Other Delights |
| "Peanuts" | — | — | — | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "A Taste of Honey" | 7 | 1 | — | 79 | 11 | 14 | 29 | 18 | — | — | ||
| "Mae" | — | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Going Places | |
| "3rd Man Theme" | 47 | 7 | — | 90 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Zorba the Greek" | 11 | 2 | — | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Tijuana Taxi" | 38 | 9 | — | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | 37 | ||
| "Spanish Flea" | 1966 | 27 | 4 | — | 28 | 19 | — | 26 | — | — | 3 | |
| "What Now My Love" | 24 | 2 | — | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | What Now My Love | |
| "The Work Song" | 18 | 2 | — | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | S.R.O. | |
| "Flamingo" | 28 | 5 | — | 30 | 16 | 23 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Mame" | 19 | 2 | — | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Wade in the Water" | 1967 | 37 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Sounds Like... |
| "Casino Royale" | 27 | 1 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | 27 | ||
| "The Happening" | 32 | 4 | — | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Herb Alpert's Ninth | |
| "A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)" | 35 | 1 | — | 33 | — | — | 22 | — | — | — | ||
| "Carmen" | 1968 | 51 | 3 | — | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Cabaret" | 72 | 13 | — | 99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Beat of the Brass | |
| "Slick" | 119 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "This Guy's in Love with You" | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 18 | 37 | 13 | — | 3 | ||
| "My Favorite Things" | 45 | 7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Christmas Album | |
| "To Wait for Love" | 51 | 2 | — | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Warm | |
| "Zazueira" | 1969 | 78 | 9 | — | 79 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Without Her" | 63 | 5 | — | 75 | — | — | — | — | — | 36 | ||
| "Ob La Di Ob La Da" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Marjorine" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "You Are My Life" | — | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | [[The Brass Are Comin'|The Brass Are CominTemplate:']] | |
| "The Maltese Melody" | 1970 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Jerusalem" | 74 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 43 | — | — | 42 | Summertime | |
| "Summertime" | 1971 | — | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Darlin'" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Without Her" | 1972 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Solid Brass |
| "Last Tango in Paris" | 1973 | 77 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | You Smile – The Song Begins |
| "Fox Hunt" | 1974 | 84 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Save the Sunlight" | — | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "I Belong" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Coney Island | |
| "Coney Island" | 1975 | — | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "El Bimbo" | — | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Whistle Song" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Promenade" | 1976 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Just You and Me |
| "African Summer" | 1977 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela |
| "Skokiaan" (with Hugh Masekela) | 1978 | — | — | 87 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Lobo" (with Hugh Masekela) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Rise" | 1979 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 19 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 13 | Rise |
| "Rotation" | 30 | 23 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 46 | ||
| "Street Life" | 1980 | 104 | 41 | 65 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Beyond" | 50 | 39 | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Beyond | |
| "Kamali" | — | — | 64 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "The Continental" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Come What May" (with Lani Hall) | 1981 | — | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Magic Man" | 79 | 22 | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Magic Man | |
| "Manhattan Melody" | — | — | 74 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Route 101" | 1982 | 37 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Fandango |
| "Fandango" | — | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Love Me the Way I Am" | 1983 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "Garden Party" | 81 | 14 | 77 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Blow Your Own Horn | |
| "Red Hot" | 77 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Come What May" (with Lani Hall) (re-issue) | 1984 | — | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single |
| "Bullish" | 90 | 22 | 52 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Bullish | |
| "Struttin' on Five" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "8 Ball" | 1985 | — | — | 73 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Wild Romance |
| "You Are the One" (with Brenda Russell) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "African Flame" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Keep Your Eye on Me" | 1987 | 46 | — | 3 | — | 18 | — | — | 19 | — | 19 | Keep Your Eye on Me |
| "Diamonds" (with Janet Jackson and Lisa Keith) | 5 | — | 1 | 47 | 4 | — | 15 | 3 | 31 | 27 | ||
| "Making Love in the Rain" (with Janet Jackson and Lisa Keith) | 35 | 21 | 7 | — | — | — | — | 94 | — | 87 | ||
| "Our Song" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "I Need You" | 1988 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Under a Spanish Moon |
| "3 O'Clock Jump" | 1989 | — | — | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | My Abstract Heart |
| "North on South St." | 1991 | — | — | 40 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | North on South St. |
| "Until We Meet Again" | 1997 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Passion Dance |
See also
- 20th century brass instrumentalists
- Herb Alpert: Music for Your Eyes documentary (2003)
- List of artists who reached number one in the United States
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart
- List of trumpeters
Notes
References
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