"A Swingin' Safari" is a 1962 instrumental composed by Bert Kaempfert,[2] using his alias, Bernd Bertie.
The song features a distinctive main theme played on the piccolo as substitute for the traditional tin whistle, and a trumpet solo by Manfred "Fred" Moch.
[5] The song was the title track of an LP consisting of orchestrations of the South African kwela style of penny-whistle music popular in the 1950s.
This album was first released in the U.S. in August 1962 under the title That Happy Feeling and had climbed to Number 14 in the charts by September of that year.
In 1962, the same year as the release of the original, Billy Vaughn recorded the song "A Swingin' Safari" as a cover; his version reached #13 on the U.S.