Album:
The tune is on South of the Border which was released in late 1964 and charted in Australia in 1965 (no stats available).
Composer:
Sol Lake
Producers:
Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Record label of Australian release:
A&M
Wikipedia:
South of the Border was Herb Alpert’s third studio album, and fifth US gold record. It continued the progression of the Tijuana Brass from its mostly-Mexican sound to a more easy-listening style, with a collection of cover versions of popular songs. The name of the group, for this album, is “Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass”.
The track titled El Presidente was a re-orchestration of Sol Lake’s Winds of Barcelona, which had appeared on the Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass album Volume 2.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_the_Border_(Herb_Alpert’s_Tijuana_Brass_album)
JOHN LAWS
One of Australia’s most famous radio broadcasters was John Laws who was a Top 40 disc jockey before launching into a highly successful career as an interview and talkback host. For decades he began his daily 2UE radio show with El Presidente as his theme music:
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