Here is the Baja Marimba Band from the 60s

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During a recent back and forth with Four Walls, I was surprised she seemed unfamiliar with the Baja Marimba Band. They were never major but well known enough for my parents to have their albums thus I grew up listening to them. The band’s founder Julius Wechter was a musician songwriter who wrote the hit “Spanish Flea” for Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Alpert suggest he start a band to cash in on the faux Mexican music craze started by the Tijuana Brass. At the same time, Alpert and his partner Jerry Moss formed A&M Records which would become a powerhouse label for decades to come. A&M’s headquarters was the old Charlie Chaplin studios in Hollywood which I have driven by a million times. The Baja Marimba Band recorded albums throughout the 60s into the 70s. They often served a opening act for the Tijuana Brass. A handful of singles charted on Billboard’s Hot 100 with the best known being “Comin’ in the Back Door.”