 Four years later he was paid $15 as a session man on Herb Alpert's debut album, "The Lonely Bull".Wechter soon composed "Spanish Flea" for Alpert, which became a hit for him.Alpert encouraged Wechter to form his own group, The Baja Marimba Band, to help cash in on the faux-Mexican popularity of Albert's own Tijuana Brass.