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The Shadows

Apache

1960 · via Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

The Shadows’ 1960 recording of “Apache” is the earliest release on file. Jerry Lordan is credited as its writer. Also recorded by The Ventures (released 1963), Incredible Bongo Band (released 1973) and General Base (released 1993), among 265 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” (1982) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

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Flash built his famous mix partly out of "Apache," and The Shadows had that Jerry Lordan tune out back in 1960. Play theirs first, then hear how a turntable turned it into something else entirely.

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Credited writer: Jerry Lordan.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1960.

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” (1982) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

Other recordings on file · first release year

265 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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