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Known as the "hokey cokey" or the "hokey kokey", the song and accompanying dance peaked in popularity as a music hall song and novelty dance in the mid-1940s in Britain. There is a claim of authorship by the British/Irish songwriter Jimmy Kennedy , responsible for the lyrics to popular songs such as the wartime " We're Going to Hang out the ...
Origin unknown, lyrics from this song are mentioned as early as 1912. Hickory Dickory Dock 'Hickety Dickety Dock' Great Britain 1744 [41] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. The Hokey Cokey 'The Hokey Pokey' United Kingdom 1842 [42] Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain ...
English lyrics were added in 1954 by American Tom Glazer for the Canadian group The Four Lads. Glazer is perhaps better known for his 1963 single On Top of Spaghetti . On 4 August 1954 the Four Lads recorded through Columbia Records the only vocal version of Skokiaan that reached the United States charts, peaking at No. 7 in the Billboard Best ...
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".
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.
Pages in category "Songs with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy" ... Harbour Lights (song) Hokey Pokey; I. Isle of Capri (song) Istanbul (Not Constantinople) M. My Prayer; R.
His hits also included "Cokey Cokey" (1945; known as "The Hokey Pokey" and "Okey Cokey" in several locales), and the English lyrics to "Lili Marlene". [1] After the end of the war, his songs included " An Apple Blossom Wedding " (1947), " Istanbul (Not Constantinople) " (1953), and "Love Is Like a Violin" (1960). [ 3 ]
The Ray Anthony Orchestra which became popular in the early 1950s with "The Bunny Hop", "Hokey Pokey", and the memorable theme from the radio/television police detective series Dragnet. [3] He had a No. 2 chart hit with a recording of the tune "At Last" in 1952; it was the highest charting pop version of the song in the U.S. His 1962 recording ...