Herb Alpert

The Luke& Laura Rape song!!

Loved “Rise.” My grandparents would play the record all the time and we would dance to it in their living room.

I’ve always liked his music and found him very sexy.

"Beyond" is my favorite

I loved his Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis-produced album Keep Your Eye On Me. It had several great cuts, including the pop hit “Diamonds” and the Quiet Storm classic “Making Love in the Rain,” both featuring Janet Jackson on vocals.

Brilliant businessman. Worth close to a billion... HOT!

He dug The Supremes, too ..! 🎵

Easily, the sexiest man in music. Easily.

This guy’s in love with you is an awesome recording - so serene and lovely

Someone here must have had him, SPILL IT!

R1 I can never hear that song and not think of Luke and Laura! And, uh, how he raped her.

Verificatia of sizemeat?

[This guy’s in love with you]

Love that song! Not much of a vocalist but a great musician and producer.

Rise is a great song.

[quote]Someone here must have had him, SPILL IT!

He's mine, r10.

Herb Alpert hit on my mom when we were staying in a hotel in Connecticut.

This was the same hotel where we watched Joan Rivers trying to ride a bicycle in the parking lot.

To R11...I agree with you; that's why I always called it the "Luke& Laura rape song".

My mom loved Herb Alpert when I was growing up, I'm also a fan.

I have no idea what this Luke and Laura thing is.

^ Luke and Laura were a soap opera super couple on General Hospital played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis. Are you young?

Yeah, and not to make this a soap thread but Luke and Laura became way more famous than any regular story on any soap, it was on the level of Who Shot JR Ewing and all that. I mean, Elizabeth Taylor appeared at their wedding!

But the whole romance started with Luke dancing with Laura in the campus disco and....well, they tried to call it "seduction" for a long time but it was Luke raping her. And the song that played was "Rise." You may just think it's the old shut in queens here that remember that but seriously, look at some YouTube clips of Rise and you'll see it mentioned several times.

[quote]Luke and Laura were a soap opera super couple on General Hospital played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis. Are you young?

No I'm not young, I'm almost 50! I Googled Luke and Laura and I wasn't even in Kindergarten yet.

OP, during his TJB heyday, Herb Alpert was considered a hunky guy by my parents generation - straight people born between 1935 and 1945.

Notorious B.I.G sampled Rise for Hypnotize, one of the great rap songs of the 90s.

Yum!

I love his version of A Taste of Honey. Talented man, has done a lot for the music industry, young musicians and artists.

He signed the Carpenters to A&M Records. They were turned down by several other labels but he recognized that they had the potential to be huge.

His nose job was a little feminizing. His wife lani hall has had a ton of work done.

My parents loved Herb Alpert when I was a kid so I listened a lot. I likes him too but must have been otherwise distracted because I never thought of him as a sex symbol. I was more focused on Robert Conrad in Wild, Wild West and others.

[quote] He signed the Carpenters to A&M Records.

He was the "A" in A&M records!!

clowns

Love Herb especially in his collaborations with Burt Bacharach. The soundtrack to Casino Royale is delicious.

We need to mention his collaboration with the Carpenters that produced "Close To You."

Herb shirtless

Everyone who grew up in the 70's dads used to have all the Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass albums (along with The Baja Marimba Band).

True dat.

Magnificent!

So listenable. And such a shrewd businessman.

This is the only type of celebrity to envy: creative, successful and low key. No attention-desperate shenanigans.

And “Rise” is the best non-disco official disco song. 🪩

[quote]His nose job was a little feminizing

True, and his high slightly gay voice helps that. He's a Jewish boy from LA, NOT GAY in the slightest.

R37 Funny, I never knew that he was Jewish American. All these years (because he played with Tijuana Brass) I assumed he was Mexican.

R33 Daddy!

R34 Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 as well

Lani & Sergio

I don't think his nose job (if there ever was one) was feminizing. As a young gayling I found him completely attractive in a non-threatening way.

Sexy in his prime, and his house in Malibu is basically perfect. The amount of love he gets from other musicians is quite extraordinary, and is across all genres.

Sexy voiced Herb hosting "The Hollywood Place", introducing Liza singing "The Happy Time" while wearing a gorgeous YSL velvet suit.

Rise is a bizarre tempo for a dance song.

[quote]Funny, I never knew that he was Jewish American. All these years (because he played with Tijuana Brass) I assumed he was Mexican.

Apart from Herb Alpert, the original members were mostly Italian American.

R38, the name Alpert is Jewish. That should have been a good tip off.

Mexico doesn't have Jews?

Go to 6:29...Herb introducing the Tijuana Brass' musical Mafia...

Oh brother, R48

That’s a nose job, R42. It’s not a crime.

The video at R44 has a comment (on YouTube) from Erna, of all people.

R21 no excuse. I’m the same age as you and I knew who Luke and Laura were even though I didn’t watch it.

R50 Prove it.

Luke and Laura were part of the popular culture back in 1980-81. Just like JR Ewing was.

Plenty of people who never watched GH or watched Dallas heard of all three of them. It was almost impossible to escape hearing about them.

Anyone want to take R53's stupid request?

Okay, we've maxed out on talking about Luke and Laura.

Moving on.

Luke and Laura also brought the song Think of Laura a lot of attention.

Luke’s and Laura’s children are heading back to Port Charles soon. Maybe the show can use a different Herb Alpert song to usher in the new storylines.

Enough Luke & Laura and moving on to Herb

[quote]Funny, I never knew that he was Jewish American.

That should please the vocal stanksleeve-haters here.

To R57, I hated that fucking song soooo much!!

I wanted Joe Kelly and Alan Quartermain deep inside both my holes raping me for hours

Mmm yeah Joe Kelly. Phillywhore you must drool over all those black irish boys in Philly like Joe Kelly

Someone upthread said everybody's dad had his albums in the 70s but I'm old enough to tell you everybody's dad had them in the 60s, too. They were stacked with hi-fi sets in more knotty pine dens and finished basements than you can imagine. Right next to the bull fighting posters on the walls.

Any photos out there pre-nose job? I'd bet Herb was even sexier. Was the nose work done before he was well-known?

To R62, I'm not disagreeing with you on that point, Irish guys like Joe Kelly or Italian guys like Matt La Blanc. Also a perfect blend of Irish and Italian (plus German and Polish). Always with dark brown or Auburn color hair. Blondes always gave me trouble.

East Falls, Roxborough area was such a blend of Men, it was fucking amazing. I'm still "Major league" attracted to Dark brown & black-haired pale guys (like the current Bf Shaun).

Isn't Matt LeBlanc of French-Canadian heritage?

Looks Italian to me, played Italian on the show!!

[quote]Luke and Laura also brought the song Think of Laura a lot of attention.

Think of Laura was by Christopher Cross and was used for Laura's return from the dead in November 1983.

A few years back Christopher Cross was on social media complaining that he never got any royalties from General Hospital for the repeated use of Think of Laura (it must have play a few dozen times in those weeks leading up to Laura being reunited with Luke).

I can't speak to the royalties, but I will say that his album sales soared because GH used the song. I know I bought the album specifically for that song. And so did thousands of others.

[quote]We need to mention his collaboration with the Carpenters that produced "Close To You."

I was first, bitch. And I'm gay. Show some goddamn RESPECT.

Fat Albert

Because he was one of our fathers' favorites, my friends and I considered him too square. I had no idea he's still alive. Who would have predicted that he and Liza would still be around 57 years after that R44 Hollywood Palace show aired?

Hollywood Palace was mostly a horrible bore.

I was a liitle confused, just learning to read, looking through my parents' record collection... Alpert with a P? I thought it was Albert.

Hollywood Palace was mostly a horrible bore.

I was a liitle confused, just learning to read, looking through my parents' record collection... Alpert with a P? I thought it was Albert.

R71 That episode also featured Sergio Mendez and singer Bobby Hart. Both still with us.

Mendez is still performing.

R41, that would have been so much better had they sung it live and not lip-synched.

R75 Songs were lip-synched back then because they were selling records and wanted the performance to sound exactly like the recording.

Also, few shows had full orchestras or the rehearsal time to get things right.

Not so, R76. I watched ALL of those cockamamie shows back then. And most of these kind of pop songs didn't require full orchestras.

[quote]I thought it was Albert.

Alpert is a surname, Albert is not.

Are you 100% sure that Albert is not?

Really nice pic of him.

No, R79. It’s the last name of a fictional private eye of the 1950s.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT BRASS, BUT THAT BRASS, NO TREBLE!

I feel like listening to Tijuana Taxi.

He was the A in A&M records.

DUH, R84

Sorry R29. I gotta pay better attention - r84

Who was the M, R84?

[quote]Not so, [R76]. I watched ALL of those cockamamie shows back then. And most of these kind of pop songs didn't require full orchestras.

The song in question at R41 would require more musicians than the Brasil '66 lineup. Where's the horn section?

He's a snob. I remember him looking old and desperate to be hip/attractive in the music video for "Diamonds" (a catchy Janet Jackson song).

[quote]He was the A in A&M records.

No shit Sherlock.

The M in A&M Records is record exec Jerry Moss.

Herb hangng with Janet in 1990

"Hey Karen, how about a sandwich?"

I always thought it was Albert, glad I’m not the only one.

I have never seen General Hospital as it was not shown in the UK, but how did Laura come back from the dead?

Herb Alpert celebrates 90 years and a return to the stage with new Tijuana Brass.

He discovered the Carpenters.

They re-released "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" with the iconic album cover printed on the vinyl.

They used to call the Tijuana Brass sound "Ameriachi."

He is ethnic Ukranian/Romanian.

That truly was an amazing album cover for WCAOD.

It's both cheaply suggestive and outrageous but in the best way.

Ooops, meant to credit r97 for posting it.

Glad I searched first to see an existing thread with current replies!

This was on CBS today.....it made me tear up a little.

[quote] He is ethnic Ukranian/Romanian.

Sizemeat.

I saw him and wife Lani Hall in concert a year ago. Both were astonishing for where they are in life. The concert ran almost two hours and Alpert never showed anything but incredible stamina and breath control.

He was a hot piece of Jew ass in his day.

Inbetween "Rise" and "Diamonds" he released the fabulous "Route 101" from the Fandango album.

The Liza introduction-If I didn’t know he wasn’t gay I’d think he wasn’t not gay. I bet many wondered.

Brash!