This Man’s in Love with You” is a music written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and recorded by Herb Alpert. Though identified primarily for his trumpet taking part in because the chief of the Tijuana Brass, Alpert sang lead vocals on this solo recording, organized by Bacharach.

As documented in a Biography cable episode that includes Bacharach, the recording originated when Alpert requested Bacharach, “Say, Burt, do you occur to have any outdated compositions mendacity round that you just and Hal by no means recorded; possibly one I’d use?” Alpert stated he made it his apply to ask songwriters that individual query; usually a misplaced “pearl” was revealed. Because it occurred, Bacharach recalled one, discovered the lyrics and rating sheet, and provided it to Alpert: “Right here, Herb … you may like this one.”[citation needed]

Alpert noticed the probabilities in it for himself. The composition had a recognizable Bacharach-David really feel, a spot for a signature horn solo within the bridge and within the fadeout, and it was a straightforward music to sing inside Alpert’s vocal vary. He initially sang “This Man’s in Love with You” on a 1968 tv particular, The Beat of the Brass. In response to quite a few viewer phone calls following the published, Alpert determined that the music needs to be launched as a single recording, and it reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Scorching 100 pop singles chart in June of that yr, remaining within the high place for 4 weeks. It was not solely Alpert’s first No. 1 single, but it surely was additionally the primary No. 1 single for his A&M document label. The music additionally spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Straightforward Listening chart. For the only’s B-side, Alpert selected “A Quiet Tear,” an album monitor from his first album in 1962, The Lonely Bull.

Eleven years later Alpert grew to become the primary (and solely) artist to have reached the prized No. 1 place of the Billboard Scorching 100 with each a vocal efficiency and an instrumental efficiency when his instrumental, “Rise”, reached the highest of the hit chart.

“This Man’s in Love with You” was succeeded at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 by “Grazing In The Grass”, an instrumental by Hugh Masekela. On the Billboard Straightforward Listening chart, Alpert’s music was each preceded and succeeded at No. 1 by instrumental hits from Hugo Montenegro (“The Good, the Unhealthy and the Ugly”) and Mason Williams (“Classical Fuel”), respectively. Moreover this hit in English, he recorded the music in Spanish and Italian.  Wiki