Happy 90th Birthday, Herb! 
From a previous post…
Was massive at his peak. Eleven top 20 albums in the US (five of them #1s), Twelve charting albums in the UK (four top 10s).
Biggest selling US act in '66 with 13m+ records. Bigger than the Beatles.
Spanish Flea! A UK #3 that everyone alive knows, even if they don’t know they know.
Must be one of the most charity-shopped vinyl artists in existence. There’s been half a dozen of his discs in every one I’ve ever been to.
Here’s another UK #3 (and first US 1, after 20+ other charting singles).
Lovely, lovely stuff.
What better way to celebrate the guy’s 90th birthday than to watch a full Herb Alpert TV special? Cheesy contemporary adverts throughout. Superb baseball section at 39m30s (part of a college sports montage). Nirvana inspiration at 41m30s. Cover of Beach Boys California Girls at 46m30s.
Fast forward to ten years later, and how about this beaut for a comeback? A million-seller. Only him and Barry White have had vocal and instrumental US #1s. Been sampled all over the shop, including by Notorious BIG.
Bonus Taste of Honey (“4DJ…” 
) on the beach:
Big big philanthropist for loads of really good stuff.
Also an abstract painter and sculpter.
Best name, too.
Fun fact: He’s the ‘A’ in A&M Records. Which he founded in '62, it became the world’s largest indie label within a decade, and he and managed it until '93 (and only stopped cos of the corporate culture that PolyGram introduced after the '89 buyout).
LONG LIVE KING HERB
Let’s get to know the main man a little better…
A dude.
