Prelude to The Top 500 Songs of the Rock Era: Herb Alpert's "Rise"

The Top 500 Songs of the Rock Era* is exactly two weeks away, and there's only one place in the world where you can catch it--on Inside The Rock Era!

In the meantime, we have been featuring some great songs just outside the list.  When this song went to #1 in 1979, Herb Alpert became the only artist in history (he still is) to achieve both a #1 vocal ("This Guy's In Love With You") and a #1 instrumental...