Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass--The Lonely Bull (1962)

      It all started in a garage.

      How many bands and artists over the years found a garage the perfect place to find their voice. It provides the perfect amount of reverb to someone who is wanting to fatten the sound of an imperfect instrument(s) and it's bigger than a bathroom shower.

      Not many can say however that their efforts would soon lead to a record label that would be sold for 500 million dollars.

      It started in a garage with someone attempting to mimic the emotions of a bullfight, it seems perhaps, even from the perspective of the bull.

      The sound of the horns in either ear being recorded separately resulting in a layered effect. The added on sounds of a crowd cheering their hero, but all with an air of sadness filtered through more than a few glasses of wine.

      Sol Lake (real name: Solomon Lachoff, 1911-1991), wrote this with the name of "Twinkle Star". The album version of the song along with the album it came from was recorded in studio (with studio musicians--the Tijuana Brass did not exist yet) and led off the juggernaut that was to become A&M Records.

     Alpert was to perfect this sound and became the background music (literally) for the mid-60's.