Ervan Coleman
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Ervan F. "Bud" Coleman (July 7, 1921 – May 26, 1967) was an American guitar and mandolin player, member of Baja Marimba Band, worked with Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, and who wrote the hit track, "Tijuana Taxi".
On the liner notes of Herb Alpert's "Definitive Hits" for the song "Tijuana Taxi" Herb Alpert wrote: "(Tijuana Taxi) was written by Bud Coleman who also played guitar and mandolin on many Tijuana Brass recordings until his untimely death. Bud wrote some great songs for us, but this one had a fabulous visual image of a Tijuana Taxi moving off a road and taking short cuts through the fields of Tijuana, Mexico."
"Tijuana Taxi" was originally released on the hit album, Going Places (1965).
Death
He died in 1967 from surgical complications.[1] The song "Bud" is a tribute song for Coleman. It was released on Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass 1967 album, Herb Alpert's Ninth. Coleman's widow, Eleanor, was given co-writing credits for this song. Julius Wechter's Baja Marimba Band also recorded a tribute song entitled "For Bud" on their 1968 album Do You Know The Way To San Jose. His son, Gregory was an accomplished classical guitarist and musician.
Discography
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With Irene Kral
- Wonderful Life (Mainstream, 1965)
With Nancy Sinatra
- Boots (Reprise, 1966)
With The T-Bones
- No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) (Liberty Records, 1966)
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- 1921 births
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