The Tiger of San Pedro is a jazz song, by John LaBarbera. This song was made popular by trombonist Bill Watrous. It was the title song of the Grammy-nominated Columbia recording "Tiger of San Pedro" by Watrous' band "The Manhattan Wildlife Refuge." The band also did a self-titled album in 1974 before it disbanded and Watrous moved to Los Angeles.
The song is one of several based on the Sherlock Holmes stories. Don Juan Murillo is a deposed dictator from South America, formerly known as "The Tiger of San Pedro", living in England, in the story The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge.
Famous quotes containing the words tiger and/or san:
“The tiger in the tiger-pit
Is not more irritable than I.
The whipping tail is not more still
Than when I smell the enemy
Writhing in the essential blood
Or dangling from the friendly tree.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)