Slightly tongue-in-cheek easy listening with a Mexican flavor and slight exotica touch, but played mostly by pasty white guys. Band was led by Julius Wechter, the guy who replaced Arthur Lyman in Martin Denny’s band. He played on Herb Alpert’s Lonely Bull album, and wrote the hit “Spanish Flea” for him (as heard on The Dating Game TV show). So to help cash in on the Tijuana sound (and the bossa nova craze, à la Brasil ’66) he formed his own band for Alpert’s A&M label, accompanied by seasoned session vets like Hal Blaine and Leon Russell. This is their first album. The Chicago-born Wechter died in 1999, aged 63.
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