Krupa (song)

"Krupa"
Single by Apollo 440
from the album Electro Glide in Blue
Released	15 July 1996
Recorded	1996
Genre	Electronic
Length	6:15 (album version) 4:01 (single/radio edit)
Label	Sony Music
Songwriter(s)	Trevor Gray Howard Gray Noko
Producer(s)	Apollo 440 (@440)
Apollo 440 singles chronology
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (1995) "Krupa" (1996) "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub" (1997)
Music video
"Krupa" on YouTube

"Krupa" is a song by British big beat/electronic rock band Apollo 440, released in July 1996 by Sony Music as the first single from their second album, Electro Glide in Blue (1997). The cover credits it as appearing in an advert for Sunkist. The song is a homage to the Polish-American drummer Gene Krupa and is almost completely instrumental. The only lyrics in the entire song are "Yeah yeah" and "Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style" (a sample from dialogue in the 1976 film Taxi Driver), which are only repeated a couple of times. The main focus of the song is on the drumming rhythms, which were sampled from "The Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet.^[1] "Krupa" also has its own music video, shot in black-and-white, which shows various generic people on a normal day in a typical city. The video avoids showing people's faces in order to focus on the music.

It was used in a 1998 Budweiser beer commercial.