This is the tune that has been driving me insane the last few days (at least the first part), kudos to RichardN for finding it! It’s not Herb Alpert, which explains why I couldn’t find it. It’s Bert Kaempfert’s Afrikaan Beat. Here’s the full non-medley version (no video). Doesn’t seem to be available on iTunes (at least not the Australasian store).

This is the music that plays in my head when I remember Newtown of the nineties… It was a fine day and the annual Newtown festival was happening, which meant lots of dreadlocks and body-paint, and up on one of the shop awnings this music was blaring from tinny speakers while a couple of girls danced "the swim" with great enthusiasm. It was such a great scene, which recently came back to me as I caught a couple of bars of this tune used as incidental music on a radio show.