BIOGRAPHY
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass formed around trumpeter Herb Alpert, born March 31, 1935, who also co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. The project began with the song 'The Lonely Bull,' reworked after Alpert saw a mariachi band at a Tijuana bullfight, and became A&M's debut release. Early recordings featured Alpert overdubbing his own trumpet, with later work backed by Los Angeles session players known as the Wrecking Crew. Their 1965 album Whipped Cream & Other Delights became the top-selling album of 1966, and in April of that year the group held the #1, #2, and #3 spots on the Billboard chart simultaneously. Guinness recognized them for selling 13.7 million copies across six albums in a single year.