Every weekday morning at 6am in the early 1960s, famous DJ Herb Oscar Anderson "HOA" on WABC in New York City would sing this song to the accompaniment of Bert Kaempfert's song "That Happy Feeling." Yes indeed, Kaempfert's song was really a version of Sugar Bush, that native South African song. Furthermore, HOA is from Minnesota and worked at WDGY in Minneapolis before coming to WABC. Here in Minnesota, the song is known as the Sugar Bush Polka. There are a great many polka bands that have played that song. The Vern Meissner Band has a nice version of it.

"That Happy Feeling" was beloved by radio and TV production people. It was also the theme song of the Sander Becker Show on Channel 5 in New York. And it was also used as the theme for a network TV game show. In turn, Bert Kaempfert mined a lot of music from the South Africans. "Skookian" is yet another popular song via that section of the world. And BK had a version of it.

And who was Sandy Becker? He had a kids show on local New York City TV. Before that, he was Dr. Malone on the radio network show "Young Doctor Malone." YDM was early played by Charles Irving, whose real name was Charles Irving Zipperman from Minneapolis.

Ain't life interesting? :)