Hyper Gumbo

I just noticed that one of the remixes of one of my favorite happy hardcore songs, I Wanna Be A Hippy (Ilsa Gold mix) makes extensive use of my favorite bit in Desmond Dekker’s Israelites. Now the question becomes, is the Ilsa Gold mix my fave version of the hippy song because of the sample, or do I like the Israelites because of Ilsa Gold?  I know which one came first chronologically, but which one I was exposed to first?  That’s a harder question to guess.  It seems an unlikely song to hear on AM radio in Texas during the ’70s, but what do I know.