What music are you listening to? (music edition)

After listening to this old tune ~~

~~I went to Wikipedia to find out who wrote it (weird that I got curious about that after all these years) and didn’t see a name beside the song, but read at the top of the track listing, “All tracks written by the members of Santana except where noted.”

In that track listing, the song “Jingo” caught my eye.

“Jingo” was one of those noted exceptions. It was written by Babatunde Olatunji (1927-2003), and was originally called Jin-go-lo-ba.

After perusing the Wikipedia article on Mr. Olatunji and listening to his song, I got the thought, “Olatunji, where have I heard that name before? Ah!”:

In the past, some of our post-authors have mentioned Babatunde Olatunji:

I would say, “It all ties in,” but it doesn’t, it sort of all ties out in all directions. Or maybe it even ties around a little bit.

Now, the obvious question that arises from all this is, What do I want, a cookie? It is a question for which I have a ready answer, viz., No, I don’t want no cookie, I want a whole strawberry cheesecake with a graham-cracker crust.

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