Australian singles chart:
The Lonely Bull entered the Australian singles chart* on 3 November 1962 and peaked at #1. It was #6 on the Top 100 of 1962.
Album:
The song is on Alpert’s 1962 album The Lonely Bull.
Songwriters:
Sol Lake
Producers:
Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Record label of Australian release:
Festival
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
A video for The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro) was filmed in 1967 inside the Toreo de Tijuana bullring:
Songfacts:
The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro) was originally an instrumental demo called Twinkle Star which cost Alpert $200 to record. Later, when he decided to record it as a single, Alpert dubbed in crowd noises from a bullring in Tijuana, Mexico.
Alpert recalled to Mojo December 2010: “I’d had a trip to Tijuana, watching the bullfights, and I tried to interpret that feeling I’d had at the fights into a sound. Of course, I was loaded on wine at the time.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/herb-alpert/the-lonely-bull-el-solo-toro
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