DEF: Herb Alpert “Route 101”
Among Los Angeles-born musician Herb Alpert‘s nineteen Top 40 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, three charted during the 1980s. On this date in 1982, the first of those three hits from the 1980s, “Route 101,” climbed to a peak position of number 37. Today, “Route 101” is the Daily Eighties Flashback.