Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You

Yes he was. I remember that dong as a kid.

Oops—song!

Herb's dong? Yummy!

He is cute!

I love that song. We had all of his LPs when I was a kid. I really liked Herb Alpert & TJB.

Attractive but not much of a singer.

yum-oooooooo

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Gorgeous song - wasn't it a Bacharach-David song?

Yes, r9

One of my all-time favorite songs.

That woman he’s singing to us scary!

I remember when this song came out -- it was late in my junior year in high school. One day I walked into the study hall or a large classroom, and someone (presumably a student) had written out all of the lyrics on the blackboard. Strange memory.

It was A&M Records' (Alpert's company) first #1 single.

Mike Patton if Faith No More owns this song. Nobody has done it better.

R15 - Jesus - I had no idea he had such a good voice and that he was so handsome. I only know 2 Faith No More songs, so I had no idea how important and acclaimed they were until I just read it now.

[quote] Mike Patton if Faith No More owns this song. Nobody has done it better.

For some reason, the girl surrounded by all the whipped cream on his famous "Whipped Cream" album used to make me cry as a kid. Don't know, maybe I was afraid she'd get in trouble for making such a mess like I'd be as a kid? My brothers used to tease me that they thought she was pretty hot, and I reacted by crying.

Diana Ross and the Supremes with The Temptations did a groovy, string laden version in 1968. Lush.

I wish the Grammys were more diverse these days. We need more of this and hard rock and Simon and Garfunkle and Dionne and Pat Methany and Pat Benatar and Yes and The Pretenders and CSN and the Talking Heads...

Why do I get him confused with Rupert Holmes?

Right--because Rupert Holmes was such a great trumpeter.

I went to his concert in Palm Springs last winter. He sounds great on the trumpet still though he did have to sit down a lot (I think he's 85 years old.) I always thought he was Mexico, I just found out he's Jewish.

It went to #1, earned a gold record and was one of the biggest hit singles of 1968 even though Herb wasn't much of a singer. Dionne Warwick recorded the song and released it as a single the following year - it was a Top 10 hit and needless to say her voice was a tad better than Herb's.

I love Dusty Springfield's version.

Dionne Warwick - This GIRL'S In Love With You.

Herb never had a big, vocal hit again because his voice was merely adequate, to put it mildly, but had more big instrumental hit singles.

Handsome and exotic back in the day.

Love this album cover of him.

I'd love to see his schlong covered in whipped cream.

Today.

R29, probably the reason I grew up and fell for Hispanic guys.

I saw him in concert with Lani hall. He stood the whole time and both of them were wonderful. Lani hall has had some great plastic surgery.

To put this in a historical contest (not that it's necessarily relevant) - this song was released and became a hit at the time when MLK and RFK were assassinated (spring of 1968.)

Wiki : Herb Alpert was born and raised in the Boyle Heights section of Eastside Los Angeles, California, the son of Tillie (née Goldberg) and Louis Leib Alpert. His parents were Jewish immigrants to the U.S. from Radomyshl (in present-day Ukraine) and Romania.

His Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis-produced album KEEP YOUR EYE ON ME is a classic. Love the songs Diamonds and Making Love in the Rain, which featured Janet on vocals.

Herb's "Rise" was a staple at my grandparent's house when I was a kid. They'd put that record on their floor model stereo and we'd all boogie.

Luke raped Laura at the campus disco while Herb Alpert's "Rise" played.

Go to 3:30 in the video below.

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When I was a kid, I thought the song was "The Sky's in Love With You."

in interviews comes across as very modest / intelligent....grateful. rarity in the music biz.

and as my junior high band teacher said..."if I could have come up with that schtick, I'd be a millionaire"

I miss songs where the vocalist is singing harmoniously with fantastic instrumentals.

[quote][R29], probably the reason I grew up and fell for Hispanic guys.

No, that's because you're gay, hon.

[quote]I love Dusty Springfield's version.

That's because you're gay, hon.

I love this song. It's all first person so there's no way to say if he's singing about a guy or a woman.

He had a singing follow-up or year or so later with this Harry Nilsson song. It didn’t chart as high as “This Guy” but I like it nonetheless.

Did it chart at all, R45?

Dozens of people tried to get a hit with that song.

Don't forget that my vocals gave Herb another hit in the 1980s!

This is on one of my Spotify playlists. It’s an ear worm. Now it’ll be stuck in my head all afternoon.

I guess I’m feeling very tender and homesick today, because I’m getting misty-eyed reading the comments. There’s a certain kind of Southern California feeling from the 70s that makes me feel that way even though I lived in New England.

R46, just checked — according to Billboard.com, Alpert’s version of “Without Her” peaked at #5 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in June of 1969. I’m surprised to learn it got that high!

You're wrong, R49....that's the adult contemporary....it only got to 63 in the billboard chart.

I’ve always liked his version of ‘Last Tango in Paris’

This song too...

He once hosted the Hollywood Palace, with The Supremes starring among his guests.

My brother and I both had crushes on the Whipped Cream woman.

No Janet reference?

I get him mixed up with Al Hirt.

With Diana again years later, backstage at the 1988 Grammys.

I don't much care for OP's version of the song because Alpert uses a voiceover intro to contextualize it at being addressed to a woman. The studio version doesn't do that, and permits the possibility of a male intended.

I like ungendered songs; 'I Think We're Alone Now' by Tommy James & the Shondells is like that.

^^ contextualize it as being