Herb Ohta Herb Ohta Herb Ohta aka Ohta-San is an American Ukulele player born in 1934 in Hawaii who has recorded solo, as a group and with Andre Popp on the A&M Records label, which was co-owned by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. He is also known as "Ohta-San" in Japan and other Asian countries, which is a title of respect for the musician. Ohta was a boy when he was taught his first three chords on the ukulele by his mother. He entered an amateur contest at age 9 and won the $10 first prize. Three years later he met Eddie
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