Midnight Sun (Herb Alpert album) "Smile", co-written by Charlie Chaplin, whose legendary lot became the home of the A&M Studios back in 1966. Midnight Sun (Herb Alpert album) Midnight Sun is an album of late-night jazz standards recorded by Herb Alpert. This was Alpert's final release of newly recorded music for A&M Records in 1992. It would also mark the 30th anniversary of A&M Records. Featured tracks include "Friends" (an original composition featuring a duet with the late Sax legend Stan Getz recorded in 1990), as well as an orchestral arrangement of the hit "A Taste Of Honey". Alpert offers two vocal efforts, "Someone to
Herb Alpert were sold, outselling the Beatles. That same year, the "Guinness Book of World Records" recognized that Alpert set a new record by placing five albums simultaneously in the Top 20 on the "Billboard" Pop Album chart, an accomplishment that has never been repeated. In the first week of April of that year, four of those albums were in the Top 10, simultaneously—matching a mark first set by The Kingston Trio in late 1959. Alpert's only No. 1 single during this period, and the first No. 1 hit for his A&M label, was a solo effort: "This Guy's in Love with