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I must be missing the point. It was Herbie Hancock who wrote the tune.
I used to have a Roland Kirk version (or my memory is wrong) but I couldn’t find it on YouTube. So here’s the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-vD4ScAGA
Sounds more like “Can’t Get Enough of You, Baby,” which was a cover of a ? And the Mysterians hit written in 1967. “Watermelon Man” was written in 1962, so now we know who really ripped off ol’ Herbie.
Not bad, making a whole song out of a five-note riff.