Herb Alpert
Rise
Vinyl LP - A&M SP 4790 (1979)


Condition: Very Good Vinyl and Very Good Cover. Vinyl was play-tested on both sides and all play very well throughout with good fidelity. Cover is fully intact with good color, light wear, and includes original inner sleeve.

Rise is a 1979 album by Herb Alpert. The song "Rise" was Alpert's first No. 1 hit in the US since "This Guy's in Love with You" in 1968. Alpert then set about creating an album to capitalize on the song's success, and Rise was released in September. Side 1 of Rise consists of original songs composed by Armer, Herb Alpert and Randy Alpert. Side 2 contains cover versions of songs that Herb Alpert admired. All songs featured the elder Alpert on trumpet, with many other studio musicians contributing.

The opening track, "1980", is an instrumental theme written by Herb Alpert that NBC Sports executive Don Ohlmeyer had originally commissioned for the network's planned coverage of the Summer Olympics in Moscow, but it was used seven years later as the official theme song for NBC's telecast of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. The closing song on the first side is another Armer and Randy Alpert song called "Rotation", which was released as the follow-up single to "Rise", peaking at No. 30 on the Hot 100 chart in January 1980.

Side 2 of the album includes a cover of "Street Life," originally recorded by the Crusaders, a version of the Bill Withers song "Love Is" featuring Herb Alpert's vocals, a cover of ex-Procol Harum vocalist Gary Brooker's "Angelina," and a dance arrangement of Joaquín Rodrigo's 1939 classical guitar concerto Concierto de Aranjuez.

The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart and at No. 6 on both the Billboard 200 and R&B album chart, selling more than three million copies.

Track listing

A1 1980
A2 Rise
A3 Behind The Rain
A4 Rotation

B1 Street Life
B2 Love Is
B3 Angelina
B4 Aranjuez (Mon Amour) (A-Ron-Ways)

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