Herb Alpert Live Recording Audio Tape: The Charles Lewis Collection

The Charles Lewis Tape collection features countless professional live raw recordings of some of the biggest names in entertainment and music. This tape includes audio of a performance by jazz musician Herb Alpert. Unedited and raw, the audio on this tape was taken off the board and preserved by the sound engineer Charles Lewis c.1960's. Tape measures 7.5" in diameter and box measures 11.75".

Audio runs for approximately 2 1/2 hours and is quite a show. It features Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes, and the Baja Marimba Band. Featured songs include:
1.Tijuana Taxi
2. The Happening
3.Taste of Honey

Chuck Lewis started his career in sound in the late fifties at Otto K. Olsen in Hollywood. While working there, he was the soundman/sound mixer for red carpet premiers at Grauman's Theater.In the sixties, Chuck was in charge of working at and overseeing performances at both the Hollywood Bowl and the Music Center.Chuck did sound for all types of performances; rock, jazz, classical, stand up, and theater. He worked with everyone from the Beatles to Baryshnikov. Chuck did have his favorites some of which were Robert Goulet, Groucho Marx, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, and Florence Henderson. In his later years, he worked solely for the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as sound director and overseeing the Center Theater Group.

Several years after Chuck's passing his children started to clear out his garage. Chuck had a sound rental business for a few years after he retired and his children were selling the sound equipment. They came across several boxes of reel to reel tapes that they had no idea existed. Among these tapes there was everything from rock, jazz, stand up, classical, and plays. These tapes feature live recordings that have gone untouched and unheard for 45 years or more.

Herb Alpert is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. Alpert's musical accomplishments include five No. 1 albums and 28 albums total on the Billboard Album chart, nine Grammy Awards, fourteen platinum albums, and fifteen gold albums. Alpert has sold 72 million records worldwide. Alpert is the only recording artist to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968), and an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979).

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