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The Sugarhill Gang

Apache

1981 · via Snoop Dogg

The Sugarhill Gang’s 1981 recording of “Apache” is the earliest release on file. Clifton “Jiggs” Chase, Cheryl Lorraine Cook, Sylvia Robinson and Wonder Mike are credited as its writers. Also recorded by Caupoliqueen Surf Combo (released 2021), among 42 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Snoop Dogg’s “Make ’Em Say Uhh #2” (1998) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

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The credits on Snoop's track list Master P and Mia X right alongside Sylvia Robinson and Wonder Mike, the people who wrote "Apache." Play the Sugarhill Gang record first and you'll hear what that cut is standing on.

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Credited writers: Clifton “Jiggs” Chase, Cheryl Lorraine Cook, Sylvia Robinson and Wonder Mike.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1981.

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Snoop Dogg’s “Make ’Em Say Uhh #2” (1998) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

42 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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