Apache is an electronica and Mix DJ’s go to.
Here is Fatboy Slim’s take from On the Floor at The Boutique.
The opening line is from The Jungle Brothers.
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“cultural appropriation”
That’s a polite way to describe it.
Frankly, he’s past “happy” into creepy (and the poor video quality doesn’t help). This is like some sort of meta-video that shows up in a horror movie, where some kids are watching an old tape and suddenly the performer starts leaking blood out of his eyes and comes out of the television to kill teenagers.
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No mention of the Shadows? I am shocked.
This is the version. No need for anything else.
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Personally, I reckon the happiest guy on the planet is Gary the UPS delivery guy in Soho, London.
Seriously, that guy’s super-nice and super-happy ALL THE TIME.
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Sure, but he’s gonna need a hip replacement by 40.
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Another, well, enthusiastic keyboard player.
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Roger Moore!
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Yes the video footage is from The Persuaders! (which I should watch a few shows of) and it also starred Tony Curtis.
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For happiest person, I offer up the ol’ Happiest DJ:
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These guys were surprisingly better than the Credible Bongo Band.
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I’m seeing an electric guitar on rhythm, yet hearing a steel string acoustic. I think.
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You might be right.
The film is another performance. The poster of the video added the comercial recording over the top of it. But those are the Shadows.
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Too bad it was such blurry cultural appropriation, some of those appropriators were mighty fetching!
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This video is screaming out for a Joel, Tom, and Crow mini-reunion.
“Ladies, look out! That’s poison ivy - aw, too late.”
“Here, we’ll just wipe it on his leisure wear!”
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This fails on so many levels, I can’t even begin to enumerate them.
Imagine, a song about a web server!
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HAY GUIZE, isn’t Steely Dan awesome!
just to re-iterate my man @TobinL and others, OP is NOT the Incredible Bongo Band.
the reason why Apache by the Incredible Bongo Band and the Apache break is a worldwide institution is because it makes people dance. There’s even a b-boy champ from the Czech Republic named Apache.
had to take a serious dip into the old 'zine collection, but I knew this was in there. Rap Pages September 1996: The Dance Special
page 47:
Trac 2 is a vetrano from the Boogie Down Bronx…. His pioneering crew, Starchild La Rock, was a disciplined dance army whose moves, styles, and infamous battles earned enduring victories etched forever in the minds of their competitors.
How did you start picking up the dance yourself? [in the mid '70s]
We had a clubhouse by where I lived, at Washington Ave and 178th St in the Bronx. We had only one record and we danced to it for hours – that was “Apache.”
He does not mean some off-brand Eurodisco bullshit version that some stupid youtube uploader erroneously labeled as the IBB, he means the actual Incredible Bongo Band.
One of my favorite re-workings is this Nas track featuring Jadakiss and Ludacris. You’ll note Luda is rapping a lot more fiercely than usual given the company or should I say competition.
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OMG, are you kidding me right now! I always WONDERED where the original footage came from!!! Now I know! Thanks, Mark!
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Good god. I enjoy the challenge of trying to sneak things like this into party mixes, but this might be a cringe too far. Willfully inflicting this on others would be like farting in a stuck elevator.
My own contribution to the surf cheeze:
The “on hold” music from hell.
