The Incredible Bongo Band – Apache / Bongolia | GETO MUSIC

The Incredible Bongo Band, a studio project led by producer Michael Viner in the early 70s, released the album Bongo Rock in 1973. It featured a cover of “Apache” (originally by The Shadows) with a notoriously long drum solo. The album initially flopped commercially. However, pioneering Bronx DJs like Kool Hercdiscovered the extended drum break and looped it using turntables to make B-boys and B-girls dance longer. This technique helped codify hip-hop DJing and established “Apache” as the “natio

Incredible Bongo Band: "Apache" (1973) "Apache" is an instrumental written by English composer Jerry Lordan. The original version was by Bert Weedon, but Lordan did not like the version. The British rock group The Shadows recorded "Apache" in June 1960 and released it the next month. It topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks. In 1961, Danish jazz guitarist Jørgen Ingmann's cover of "Apache" (which he recorded in the fall of 1960) went to #2 in the US and #2 in Canada. A 1973 version by the I