Puce eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce. Puce Puce is a dark red or purple brown color, a brownish purple or a "dark reddish brown." "Puce" is the French word for "flea". The color is said to be the color of bloodstains on linen or bedsheets, even after being laundered, from a flea's droppings, or after a flea has been crushed. The "Oxford English Dictionary" ("OED") dates the first English use of "puce" as a color to 1778. The name comes from the French word "puce", or flea, which comes from the Latin words for flea, "pulicem" or "pulex". According
Spanish Flea is closely associated with the long-running game show "The Dating Game", for which it served as the "Bachelor’s Theme". The song was also recorded by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 on their 1966 debut album, "Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil "66". "Spanish Flea" was also covered by Trudy Pitts on her debut album "Introducing the Fabulous Trudy Pitts" (1967), by the Doodletown Pipers on "The Doodletown Pipers Sing-along '67" (1967) and by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley on "", also recorded in 1967. Julius Wechter himself, with his Baja Marimba Band, recorded the song on the 1971 album