Pata Pata
Context
Version recorded in 1967 for Reprise, produced by Jerry Ragovoy, co-writer of the song with Miriam Makeba; it reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song had first been sung in South Africa in the 1950s by the Skylarks, Makeba's female vocal group, to a melody taken from an instrumental by Shumi Ntutu and Isaac Nkosi.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to South African jazz, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of South African jazz: Free jazz, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).