Unlikely musical cross-fertilizations and guilty pleasures

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The first part is Afrikaan Beat

Afrikaan Beat is a 1962 song by German musician Bert Kaempfert, which in a strange twist of fate became the basis of a very famous Jamaican riddim named African Beat, also known as Under Me Sensi, first recorded by Studio One, widely credited to Don Drummond. Listen to the jamaican riddim at jamrid.com (does not feature Kaempfert’s distinctive horn line). The Kaempfert song is an exquisite guilty pleasure.

Kaempfert would have become 87  tomorrow, had he not gone on a permanent vacation in 1980.

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