Thanks for that post!
"Dore Alpert" is, of course, the great Herb Alpert, pre-Tijuana Brass, whose A&M Studios almost single-handedly kept the melody in popular music during the '60s and '70s. Herb's wife, Lani Hall, is the most enthralling jazz/latin singer on the planet. Both recently played with their old pal Sergio Mendes at the Hollywood Bowl, Lani singing four of her old Brasil '66 songs with Herb backing up on trumpet, and they brought down the house. Very talented people.
Herb Alpert was quite active pre-Tijuana Brass. In 1959, under the name "Herb B. Lou & the Legal Eagles," he and his partner, Lou Adler, released "The Trial," a novelty record featuring snippets of popular songs in the dialog. The next year, his orchestra backed Dante & The Evergreens on "Time Machine," a song about a time traveler who flies into the past to "make some time 1960 style" with Cleopatra.