A&M Records form A&M Octone Records, which operated until 2013, when A&M Octone was folded into Interscope. Today, A&M's catalog releases are managed by Verve Records, Universal Music Enterprises and Interscope. A&M Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their first choice for a name was Carnival Records, under which they released two singles before discovering that another label had already taken the Carnival name. The company was subsequently renamed A&M, after Alpert's and Moss's initials. From 1966 to 1999, the company's headquarters were on the grounds of the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios at 1416 North La Brea
Volume 2 (Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album) by Herb Alpert at the beginning of "The Great Manolete (La Virgen de la Macarena)". It was made available digitally for download in February 2007 at the same time as the reissues of the 1969 albums "Warm" and "The Brass Are Comin'." No CD reissue of "Volume 2" was available for years, as Alpert reportedly felt that the album was of inferior technical quality. On September 9, 2016, Volume 2, along with 23 of Herb's other albums, was reissued on CD on the Herb Alpert Presents label. As with "The Lonely Bull", the album features some songs with a very