Herb Alpert released his instrumental piece Rise July 1979 and won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 22nd ceremony February 27, 1980. Alpert is the only musician to have an instrumental performance and a vocal performance enter into the Billboard Hot 100. His first entry was This Guy's In Love With You which reached #1 in 1968.
Rise reached #1 in October 1979 and remained for two weeks. It also reached #4 on the R&B chart, #17 on the Disco chart, and #1 for a week on the Adult Contemporary Chart.
