Herb Alpert a vocalist at Dot Records under the name of Dore Alpert. "Tell It to the Birds" was recorded as the first release on the Alpert & Moss label Carnival Records. When Alpert and Moss found that there was prior usage of the Carnival name, they renamed the label A&M Records. Alpert set up a small recording studio in his garage and had been overdubbing a tune called "Twinkle Star", written by Sol Lake, who would eventually write many of the Brass's original tunes. During a visit to Tijuana, Mexico, Alpert happened to hear a mariachi band while attending a bullfight.
Impact (record label) to the edition of 1 January 1966 of "Billboard", after Columbus, two other acts were to have releases. They were the group Larry's Rebels and the singer Gerry Merito. One of the artists it would have a lot of success with was Bunny Walters. Walters who had 12 singles released on the label had 5 charting hits with the label, the last being "The Nearest Thing To Heaven which made #10 in 1974. Impact (record label) "For other record labels named Impact Records, see Impact Records (disambiguation)" Impact was a New Zealand record label which released records by, among others,