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People doing the Hokey Cokey at an annual "Wartime Weekend" in the United Kingdom. The Hokey Pokey (also known as Hokey Cokey in the United Kingdom, Ireland, some parts of Australia, and the Caribbean) [1] is a participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure.
Coincidentally, "hokey pokey" was a slang term for ice cream in general in the 19th and early 20th centuries in several areas—including New York City [10] and parts of Great Britain—specifically for the ice cream sold by street vendors or "hokey pokey men". The vendors, said to be mostly of Italian descent, supposedly used a sales pitch or ...
Honeycomb toffee, honeycomb candy, sponge toffee, cinder toffee, seafoam, or hokey pokey is a sugary toffee with a light, rigid, sponge-like texture. Its main ingredients are typically brown sugar (or corn syrup , molasses or golden syrup ) and baking soda , sometimes with an acid such as vinegar .
The Hokey Pokey (worldwide) or its original name Hockey Cokey (UK) is an old British folk song. Hokey pokey or hokey cokey may also refer to: Dance and music.
Hokey, the name of a particular House-elf in the fictional Harry Potter series Hokey cokey (AKA hokey pokey), a participation dance Hokey Wolf , a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character
Larry LaPrise ( Roland Lawrence LaPrise) (November 11, 1912 [1] - April 4, 1996 [2]) at one point held the U.S. copyright for the "Hokey Pokey" song. LaPrise was born in Detroit, Michigan. He wrote "Do The Hokey Pokey" in the early 1940s for the après-ski crowd at a club in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Alfred Taboriwsky (1898–1983), known as Al Tabor, was an English bandleader, best known as the supposed originator of the song the "Hokey Cokey", even though versions of the song had been published long before Tabor's one. Tabor was born in Whitechapel in the East End of London to Jewish parents who had fled the pogroms of Vilnius, then in ...
Remember When the Music is a posthumously produced album by the American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1987.Produced on CD and cassette tape, it contained the same tracks as the album, Sequel, which was the last complete album released during Harry's lifetime, plus two previously unreleased tracks, "Hokey Pokey" and "Oh Man".