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Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss Curate 3-CD Set for 50th anniversary of A&M Records
It’s an archetypal story of the modern record business – two guys with a dream running their nascent label out of a West Hollywood garage in the summer of 1962. The label quickly gains momentum and eventually becomes one of the most important record companies the world has ever seen.
The two guys were
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Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, the “A” and the “M” in A&M Records. By the way, it was Alpert’s garage and that first hit was “The Lonely Bull,” performed by
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Herb Alpert. And this year the two record men and UMe are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of their label.
As part of the celebration, on August 28, UMe is releasing
A&M 50: The Anniversary Collection. A 60-track, 3-CD set curated by Alpert & Moss,
A&M 50: The Anniversary Collection perfectly illustrates what a potent effect the legendary label is still having on contemporary popular music.
Perhaps because one of its founders was an artist himself — and a hugely successful one at that — A&M Records distinguished itself as an artist-friendly label, one that would stand behind artists they believed in, album after album, until they found their voice and an audience.
“We wanted to make good records,” says Herb Alpert, reflecting on the label’s genesis. “That was our goal. We felt if we made good records there would be an audience.”
Herb and Jerry’s dedication to development resulted in some of the biggest superstars in music ever:
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