Apache (instrumental) - Other Versions

Other Versions

The following are different non-hit, but still notable recordings of "Apache" – not songs that sample The Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache".

• In the 1961, Si Zentner released a version on his "Big Band Plays the Big Hits" album, along with "Up a Lazy River."
• In 1969, Eyes of Blue released a version entitled Apache '69, under the name the Imposters. The B side of this Mercury label release (MF1080) was the song QIII.
• In 1972 the Moog-based band of session musicians called Hot Butter released a cover version of "Apache" as follow-up to their hit "Popcorn".
• In 1976 the electro-rock French band Rockets, in their first eponymous album, released a version featuring synthesizers, disco-rock drumming, and heavily treated guitars.
• In the 1970s the Tennessee Farm Band did a version.
• In 1977, The Tommy Seebach Band recorded a disco-styled version and filmed an accompanying music video of "Apache". Set on a rocky hillside, it featured scantily-clad dancers adoring a grinning Tommy Seebach while he plays keyboards. This version was successful in Europe and later became an Internet meme.
• A 30-second edit of The Shadows version was used in an April 1988 UK TV advertisement for Tango fizzy drink.
• Black Sabbath with Tony Martin on vocals played a live cover of the song at their 1989 concert in Moscow.
• Ska-Dows recorded a ska version of "Apache", including some lyrics, mostly the word "Apache!" shouted repeatedly.
• In 1992, Norwegian a cappella group Bjelleklang recorded their version of "Apache" on the album "Holiholihoo".
• The California Guitar Trio covered Apache for their 1995 album, Invitation
• Wyclef Jean's "Masquerade" includes the melodic hook played on violin as the song closes.
• In 2002 Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley recorded a cover version which was released on limited white, green, pink and black vinyl 7" single under the name The Jimi Entley Sound.
• In 2005, the German band Scooter covered this song as an instrumental for the album Who's Got The Last Laugh Now? in a techno version. Later that year, a single was released which combined elements of "Apache" and "Rock Bottom" from the same album, known as "Apache Rocks The Bottom". This later appeared on the 2nd Disc of the UK Edition of their 2008 album Jumping All Over The World.
• Angel Parra Trio, a Chilean Latin jazz band, covered this song on his 2005 album Playa Solitaria.
• On the 2006 album Hier is Normaal, the Dutch band Normaal made a compilation of instrumental songs of their own and other artists. Apache is also in it. The song, "Varkens Pesten", means literally "bullying pigs".
• French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel recorded a version of "Apache" on his #1 hit album "Guitar Connection" (Sony Music) in 2006. The abum went platinum and included a DVD on which Danel shows how to play the songs, including "Apache". Linked with The Shadows for years, Danel later recorded duets with Hank Marvin on other songs.
• On Missy Elliott's album The Cookbook, "We Run This" uses Apache as background music.
• "Apache" was covered by the folk band 17 Hippies on their 2007 album Heimlich.
• Junior Brown regularly performs Apache in his live shows.
• Switch – A Bit Patchy (features samples of Apache)
• Subfocus – A Bit Patchy (features samples of Apache)
• In 2010, Jeff Beck performed a version of Apache during his tribute concert for Les Paul in New York City; it was released in February 2011 on the CD Jeff Beck's Rock n' Roll Party Honoring Les Paul, and also performed on the DVD/Blu-ray release of the same concert, also released in February 2011.
• A version of Apache was used as the theme to the long-running television show Wild Chicago, which aired in Chicago on PBS.
• "Symphony of the Nymph" (2012) by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti (features a melody from Apache)