RIFF SUMMER CHALLENGE

The Lonely Bull

The romance of surfing

Image by Shutterbug75 from Pixabay

Yesterday, I divulged my guilty pleasure of watching Back to the Beach over 100 times, gratefully leading me to surf music. Among the amazing range of surf classics featured in the film was “The Lonely Bull” written by Sol Lake — a friend of Herb Alpert — and performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in 1962. It was the first album to…