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Monday, 02 November, 2009

Hully Gully
(with comments)

Found at LP Cover Lover.

This dance craze was way before my time, so I had to look it up.

The Hully Gully is a type of unstructured line dance originating from the sixties, but also mentioned some forty years earlier as a dance common in the black juke joints in the first part of the twentieth century.

The Hully Gully was started by Frank Rocco at the Cadillac Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. The rock group the Olympics sang the song "Hully Gully", in 1959, which involved no physical contact at all. The same tune was used a year or two later as a song by the Marathons, entitled "Peanut Butter", which was later used for the Peter Pan Peanut Butter commercial during the 1980s.

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs' 1964 hit "Wooly Bully" was originally called "Hully Gully," but the band could not record it under that name due to the prior existence of a recorded song by that title. And the speed of the beats did not fit to the steps of "Hully Gully".


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  1. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @08:13am:
    Unfortunately, I do remember the Hully Gully, but I seem to have forgotten The Angels.
  2. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @08:21am:
    The Angels look like they're about to stomp on those satanic instruments.
  3. By Mean Jean. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @08:26am:
    The Angels had been to see the Temptations and it had a disasterous affect. White guys just couldn't do that and not look stupid.
  4. By Shel-tone. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @09:13am:
    Suddenly "wooly bully" makes perfect sense to me now.
  5. By Gee.... Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @02:52pm:
    This seems creepy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELMrvlomu3Y

    Check the pervy guys watching...~shudder~
  6. By Bisbonian. Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @03:48pm:
    ...the hair on the sax player; now THAT's creepy.
  7. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @04:15pm:
    The Olympics also gave us "Big Boy Pete" and "Western Movies".
  8. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @04:39pm:
    Check the pervy guys watching...~shudder~

    Sorry, Gee, I don't think there's anything perverted about men watching pretty women in skimpy clothing dance - and it was a floor show, after all. I think being watched was the idea.

    There were so many dance crazes then; it was great fun. I never would have thought that dancing would fade into obscurity like it has, considering that the generation just prior to my own had the Big Bands, the jitterbug and dance marathons and then my own generation had the bop, the twist, the stroll, and many others. It was a good time.
  9. By . Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @05:52pm:
    White shoes with dark hose is creepy to me.
  10. By Gee.... Comment posted 02-Nov-2009 @06:02pm:
    Bars like that are the precursors to modern strip clubs. They used the excuse of current music and dance for men to watch partially clothed women dance around and shake their stuff.
    I saw a documentary on them once, the men in the audience would request dances, the band or DJ would play them and the women would dance to them. After strip tease theaters were outlawed in a particular county, they'd open a "dance" club like that one.
    I still think it's creepy.
  11. By . Comment posted 12-Nov-2009 @10:14am:
    I was watching "Cheers" the other day and Carla mentioned the "Hully Gully."
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