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"Spanish Flea" is an instrumental song that was originally made popular by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and was featured on their 1965 album, Going Places. The song featured Alpert's trumpet over a latin rhythm backing . It was later covered by Trudy Pitts on her debut album Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts (1967).

"Spanish Flea" was used as the "Bachelor’s Theme" on the long-running American television show The Dating Game.

The tune has also been featured on two episodes of The Simpsons. On one of them, the song is played in the background as Lisa and Ralph model the new, colourless school uniforms, and in the other, Homer sings the tune with the addition of made-up lyrics while he sits in his car. The lyrics were;

There was a little Spanish flea

A record star he thought he'd be

He heard of singers like Beatles

And the chipmunks he'd seen on TV ...

Why not a Little Spanish flea?

And so he hid

Inside a doggie from Madrid

He arrived in the city

Still singin’ his sweet harmony

As proud as any flea could be

He walked around

As if he owned the town

Humming his pint sized melody

With his <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=5&k=guitar" onmouseover="window.status='guitar'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=; return true;">guitar</a> he knew he'd be a star

And in his own home town, how proud he'd be

Then all at once he met a man

Who said, "I'll help you if I can"

He listened close to his song

And then he sang right along for you see

He loved that little spanish flea.

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