Billboard #1 Hits: #473: ‘Rise’- Herb Alpert. October 20, 1979. #1 for 2 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘Rise” – Herb Alpert
- Record Company- A&M
- Genre: Jazz- Funk
- Written by Andy Armer and Randy Alpert
- Time: 3:50
- B-side:’Aranjuez’
- Album- Rise
- Grade: B
- Peaked at #1 2 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
This was a record setting #1 hit. With ‘Rise’ Herb Alpert became the only artist to have #1 hits with both a vocal performance and an instrumental. With all those hits he had in the 1960’s with the Tijuana Brass- he never had a #1 – his only #1 was the vocal performance -‘This Guy’s In Love With You’- 1968. To this day Alpert is the only artist to accomplish this. ‘Rise’ won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
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Much of Alpert’s music must be attributed to the backup studio band- “The Wrecking Crew”
I loved the album “Whipped Cream” when I played trombone and still do.
My maternal GM loved Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. I grew up listening to this music. Great stuff.