" Skokiaan" is a popular tune originally written by Zimbabwean musician August Musarurwa (d. Single by The African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern RhodesiaĪugust Musarurwa (typeset August Msarurgwa in records) The track featured in the soundtrack, and the album cover was seen on screen when a character showed off his collection of popular LPs.Single by The African Dance Band of the Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia "Skokiaan" In 2018, it lent its title to the Australian comedy film Swinging Safari, set in the 1970s.
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In 2017, the song was used extensively by the European furniture retailer DFS, in both TV and radio advertising campaigns.In 1971, the song was used as the theme music to the Blue Peter Royal Safari.The Kaempfert version is also featured as the main theme in the Swedish game show called Vi i femman, where two teams of fifth-graders compete against each other.The Bert Kaempfert version of "A Swingin' Safari" served as the original theme music to the television game show The Match Game, from 1962 to 1967.Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Easy Listening chart that summer. In 1962, the same year as the release of the original, Billy Vaughn recorded the song "A Swingin' Safari" as a cover his version reached #13 on the U.S. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. "Skokiaan" - Written by August Msarurgwa & Tom Glazer (2:49)."Black Beauty" - Written by Kaempfert & Cedric Dumont (2:34)."Wimoweh" - Written by Paul Campbell & Roy Ilene (2:41)."Tootie Flutie" - Written by Kaempfert (2:09)."Happy Trumpeter" - Written by Kaempfert (2:37)."Afrikaan Beat" - Written by Kaempfert (2:26)."Zambesi" - Written by Anton de Waal, Bob Hilliard & Nico Carstens (2:48)."Similau" - Written by Arden Clar and Harry Coleman (2:56)."Take Me" - Written by Kaempfert and Helmut Brüsewitz (3:01)."Market Day" - Written by Kaempfert (2:31)."That Happy Feeling" - Written by Guy Warren (2:54)."A Swingin' Safari" - Written by Bert Kaempfert (3:06).It was then released on the European market with the title A Swingin' Safari in autumn of the same year. in August 1962 under the title That Happy Feeling and had climbed to Number 14 in the charts by September of that year. This album was first released in the U.S. The album was credited to "Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra". The song was the title track of an LP consisting of orchestrations of the South African kwela style of penny-whistle music popular in the 1950s. In particular, A Swingin' Safari uses the chord changes, tempo, shuffle rhythm, and high soprano obbligato of the Tokens' hit, and the tin whistle theme that opens the arrangement rhythmically mimics the "wimoweh" vocal figure found in the Weavers' 1952 "Wimoweh" recording and the Tokens' version. Similarities to The Lion Sleeps Tonight Ī Swingin' Safari shares a number of compositional elements in common with The Tokens' 1961 hit " The Lion Sleeps Tonight," which itself was derived from several earlier arrangements of Solomon Linda's 1939 song Mbube. 1 Similarities to The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
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