Ervan Coleman, a mandolinist and guitarist who performed with the Baja Marimba Band and Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, was born on July 7, 1921. He would have been 100 today.

Coleman is featured in many Tijuana Brass recordings, and he wrote the group's hit song "Tijuana Taxi." He died in 1967, at the peak of his fame, after undergoing surgery.

He can be heard in this recording of "Spanish Flea."