Ervan "Bud" Coleman was a guitar and mandolin player who worked with Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and who famously wrote the hit "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 in 1962.