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The Lonely Bull
Studio album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Released	December 1962
Recorded	Conway Recorders, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Jazz / Easy Listening / Instrumental Pop
Length	30:07
Label	A&M Records
Producer(s)	Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass chronology
	The Lonely Bull (1962)	Volume 2 (1963)

The Lonely Bull, released in 1962, is the debut album from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, and was also the first album ever released by A&M Records. The album was originally issued in both mono and stereo versions, though the stereo version essentially had the mono version come out of one speaker with a separate solo trumpet track coming through the other. Because of this, critics have noted that when listened to on headphones, the stereo album sounds excessively "heavy" on one side. This led many later fans to prefer the mono version.

The original stereo version of the album has since been reissued on the Shout! Factory music label.

A more balanced stereo remix of the title track, "The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)", can be found on the Herb Alpert compilation Definitive Hits.

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)" (Sol Lake) – 2:29
2. "El Lobo (The Wolf)" (Harry Green/Sol Lake) – 3:00
3. "Tijuana Sauerkraut" (Herb Alpert/Jerry Moss) – 2:44
4. "Desafinado" (Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonca) – 3:42
5. "Mexico" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:36
6. "Never On Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis/Billy Towne) – 2:38
7. "Struttin' With Maria" (Herb Alpert) – 2:10
8. "Let It Be Me" (Gilbert Becaud/Mann Curtis/Pierre Delanoe) – 2:55
9. "Acapulco 1922" (Herb Alpert) – 2:38
10. "Limbo Rock" (Billy Strange) – 2:05
11. "Crawfish" (Lake Doran/Sol Lake) – 2:20
12. "A Quiet Tear (Lagrima Quieta)" (Herb Alpert) – 2:23