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Herb Albert with his band sold 72 million albums.

And that's probably not even his greatest achievement in the

music industry. He also co-founded A&M records, which broke artists from the police

to Cat Stevens to the carpenters, Joe Cocker to Janet Jackson to

sound garden. And since he and his partner sold the label a few decades ago, her Belbot has been one of America's greatest music philanthropists.

But of course, he will always be known first and foremost for his band, the Tijuana Brass. The And the And it was everywhere. In the 60s, they sold more albums than the Beatles.

I talked with Herb Albert in 2015 when he just released Come Fly With Me.

Since then he has cut nine more records.

His newest 50 gets its title because well because it's his 50th studio album.

50 albums one man extraordinary he's pushing 90 he's still got it. Let's kick things off with a single from that

new record. This is Dancing Down 50th Street. And the And the Herbalper, welcome to Bullsey. It's great to have you on the show.

Thank you very much. Nice to be here. So we were talking right before we went on

Mike about the fact that you grew up here in Los Angeles.

Oh yeah, I'm a native.

How was the LA that you grew up in?

You were born in East LA in Boyle Heights and grew up in sort of Central, West LA?

Yeah, well how did it differ?

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