Monday, October 5, 2009

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - "Spanish Flea"


We've looked at some famous instrumentals lately - so here's another one.

I grew up listening to "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass every weekday on The Dating Game. But the song was a Billboard hit in its own right (#1 in 1965).

The video is appropriately bat-shit - the band plays the song in a Mexican bullfighting ring while bullfight action goes on around them.