Proto-fusion -- early Hindi appropriations of jazz and fado

Dilip D'Souza has a great post on early Bollywood musical fusion.

Death ends fun: Hey My Heart, Show Me

My own latest bizarre example: "Gela Gela Gela," one of the songs from the recent film Aitraaz samples "Thoia Thoing," R. Kelly's huge (and nonsensical) R&B hit from 2003. It actually kind of works.