Apache

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So Making Light linked to this cringe-inducing Danish disco video of "Apache", which I had seen before. But the prize of the ensuing thread was the link to this history of the song, which had an early life as a surf-guitar classic with a vaguely pseudo-American-Indian theme, but took a crucial left turn when it was covered by the Incredible Bongo Band in 1973 in an elaborate orchestral funk version with a percussion line that got sampled and otherwise reused by so many hip-hop and other artists that it's now strange to think of it as originating on a particular record rather than existing as a part of the human collective consciousness since prehistory. But now you know.