Soul Sides has just put this good article on display, which shows how the legendary song "Apache" got pushed from being written by Jerry Lordan after getting inspired by a western film, to the forefront of hip-hop.

Sure, it's probably most known from the cover by The Shadows, but it's the one by Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band that started the hip-hop explosion. Read up on that at Soul Sides, and get "Bongo Rock", the best compilation by Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band.