I'm looking for a song title?!
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I'm looking for a song title?
THE TUNE I'M AFTER IS FEATURED ON "KUNG POW-ENTER THE FIST" THE SCENE WHERE HE FIGHTS THE COW. I FIRST HEARD THIS TUNE IN THE CHEVVY BAR/COFFEE SHOP IN HOEK VAN HOLLAND IN 1997.THE VERSION I HEARD WAS ABOUT AN HOUR LONG ALL THE SAME SITAR TUNE BUT SLIGHTLY VARIED,I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS CALLED "INDIAN ROPE (OR A VARIATION OF THAT)" AND THAT PAUL WELLER WAS INVOLVED IN IT SOME HOW.IF ANY BODY COULD POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL AS EVERY SEARCH I'VE TRIED BRINGS UP THE SAME SONGS (BUT NOT THE ONE I WANT).
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Shocking Blue - Acka Raga
'Acka Raga' was originally a throwaway track on the first 'Indo Jazz Fusions' album -- the brainchild of Jamaican-born British saxophonist Joe Harriott and Bengali-born Anglo-Indian violinist John Mayer. This cover version (complete with a tighter rhythm section and a less exploratory sitar line) is by the Dutch pop band Shocking Blue, best known for their 1969 hit 'Venus'. It's taken from their 1969 psych-pop album 'At Home', released on the Pink Elephant label (they also used a sitar on the tracks 'Love Buzz' and 'Water Boy'). The sitar theme also became the basis for a 1999 Mint Royale single, 'From Rusholme With Love'.