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This is Part I of a two part pancocojams series on the saying "boogity, boogity, boogity".
This post presents a chronological list of examples of the saying "boogity, boogity, boogity" from a novel, various songs, a comedy routine, two movies, a NASCAR announcer's catchphrase, a minister's prayer at the opening of a NASCAR race, and a YouTube video clip of a viral country/Hip Hop song*.
A video, sound file, and/or article excerpts and/or transcripts are included for a few of these examples.
Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/06/information-about-several-definitions.html for Part II of this series. Part II presents information about & several definitions of "boogity, boogity, boogity".
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*I was motivated to research this subject after watching the YouTube "movie video" of Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" ft. Billy Ray Cyrus. A number of online articles and YouTube videos have addressed a lot of topics that have been raised as a result of the "Old Town Road" viral hit. However, one topic that I haven't come across yet online is what I call "the Chris Rock" segments of that video, and particularly Chris Rock's use of the saying "boogity, boogity, boogity".
I was also motivated to publish this pancocojams series to correct the record as several of the online chronological listings of the saying "boogity boogity boogity" that I've come across don't include one of the earliest documented uses of this saying i.e. Chubby Checker- "Pony Time" or any other published African American use of the word "boogity" ("boogety") or saying "boogity, boogity, boogity". This is particularly disconcerting since it's likely that the word "boogity" is of African American origin (from the word "boogie").
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1952- (African American author) Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man (novel)
From https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=boogity%20boogity
"boogity boogity
An onomatopoetic expression of running or other hurried activity, characteristic of traditional African and African American narration. Occurs in Ralph Waldo Ellison's "Invisible Man;" metrically identical with "imbili imbili," the formula used for the same purposes by African griots -- for example, Fa-Digi Sisoko's Son-Jara. Alternatively, "boogety boogety," "boogedy boogedy."
"So here he comes, runnin down the street boogity boogity till he gets tot he corner."
#interjections#sounds#narration#folk#formula
by Hrothgar April 22, 2008
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I don't know what this quote from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. If you know this quote, please share it along with the page number and edition of the book you are quoting from. Thanks!
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Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953.[2] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man 19th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.[3] Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005..."
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1960 - record "Pony Time" composed by Don Covay and John Berry and recorded by Covay with his group the Goodtimers
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Don Covay and John Berry are White Americans.
Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Time for more information.
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1961- "Pony Time" recorded by (African American) Chubby Checker
Lyric Excerpt:
"It's pony time, get up
(Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo)
Hey now everybody
(Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo)
In the union hall
(Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo)
It's pony time
(Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo)
When ya hear this call
(Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo)
So get with it
Don't quit it
Get up
(Boogety, boogety, boogety, boogety shoo)"...
https://genius.com/Chubby-checker-pony-time-lyrics
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Chubby Checker - Pony Time
GNRSlashLover, Published on Sep 18, 2010
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1961 - (White American singer) Barry Man - "Who Put The Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp")
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Put_the_Bomp_(in_the_Bomp,_Bomp,_Bomp)
"Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" is a doo-wop style novelty song from 1961 co-written (with Gerry Goffin) and recorded by Barry Mann...
[...]
Lyrics
In this song, Mann sings about the frequent use of nonsense lyrics in doo-wop music, and how his girl fell in love with him after listening to several such songs.
Examples of the type of song referred to include the Marcels' version of "Blue Moon" (in which they sing "Bomp bomp ba bomp, ba bomp ba bomp bomp" and "dip-de-dip-de-dip")[2] and the Edsels' "Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong", both of which charted earlier the same year.[3] The spoken part is a reference to the song "Little Darlin'" by the Diamonds.[citation needed] "Boogidy shoo" can be found in the lyrics to "Pony Time" by Chubby Checker, released earlier that year.[citation needed] Mann was backed up by the Halos,[4] a doo-wop group of its own renown that had a single top-40 hit with "Nag" and also sang on Curtis Lee's hit "Pretty Little Angel Eyes."
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Lyric Excerpt: "Who Put The Bomp"
(Barry Mann)
..."Each time that we're alone
Boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity shoo
Sets my baby's heart all aglow
And every time we dance to
Dip da-dip da-dip, dip da-dip da-dip
She always says she loves me so"...
https://genius.com/Barry-mann-who-put-the-bomp-lyrics
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1970 - English Rock Band "Humble Pie" used the shorter phrase "boogity-boogity" in their 1970 song "Red Light Mama, Red" (mentioned in this Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Waltrip
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early 1970s - (White American comedian) - Jerry Clower
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=266vruLtd1o
The Coon Huntin' Monkey ~ Jerry Clower
Cary Buffington, Published on Apr 25, 2015
Howard Gerald "Jerry" Clower (September 28, 1926 – August 24, 1998) was a popular country comedian best known for his stories of the rural South and nicknamed "The Mouth of Mississippi".
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From https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Boogity%20boogity%20boogity
"Boogity boogity boogity
Originally used by Grand Ole Opry comedian Jerry Clower (1926-1998) in a tale of coon hunting, wherein a 'city feller' brings a chimpanzee to a coon hunt to prove the chimp's superior skills over traditional coon hunting dogs. Recently adopted by NASCAR color commentator and retired champion driver Darrell Waltrip, shouted as the green flag waves to begin the race, followed by "Let's go racin, boys!"
"That ol' chimpanzee went up that tree, boogity boogity boogity...
#boogity#boogitty#opry#comedian#clower
by ScoutMother April 27, 2008"
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At 1:54 of the Jerry Clower sound file given above - "Ole June has a flash light in one hand and a pistol in the other hand, and up that tree he went boogity, boogity, boogity"...
WARNING: Near the beginning of this Southern United States comedic story, one of the characters describes the chimpanzee as looking like a person. Given the insults that equate Black people with monkeys and apes, this statement can be considered problematic.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Clower
"Howard Gerald "Jerry" Clower (September 28, 1926 – August 24, 1998) was an American stand-up comedian. Born and raised in the Southern United States, Clower was best known for his stories of the rural South and was given the nickname "The Mouth of Mississippi".
Clower's first on-stage engagement occurred in the early 1970s when country radio station owner and show promoter, Marshall Rowland (WQIK, Jacksonville; WDEN, Macon; WQYK, Tampa), received an early Clower recording ("The Coon Huntin' Story") which was met with rave reviews by his station's listeners in Jacksonville."...
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1974 - (White American parody singer) Ray Stevens- "The Streak" (from his album Boogity Boogity)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streak
"The Streak" is a popular country/novelty song written, produced, and sung by Ray Stevens. It was released in March 1974 as the lead single to his album Boogity Boogity. "The Streak" capitalized on the then-popular craze of streaking.[1] In 2007 Cledus T. Judd covered "The Streak" on his album Boogity Boogity - A Tribute to the Comic Genius of Ray Stevens.
One of Stevens' most successful recordings, "The Streak" was his second number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA, spending three weeks at the top in May 1974 and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. A major international hit, it also reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, spending a single week at the top of the chart in June 1974.[2]."...
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Ray Stevens - The Streak
raystevensmusic, Published on Jul 14, 2009
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1977 -a line in the movie Smokey And The Bandit
From https://lasvegassun.com/news/2007/jul/16/the-opening-line/ "Who started boogity, boogity, boogity?", July 16,2007
..."1977 Burt Reynolds movie "Smokey and the Bandit" provided one of those "A-ha!" moments. At one point late in the film, the character Cledus "Snowman" Snow, portrayed by actor/singer Jerry Reed, utters the phrase "Boogity, boogity, boogity, boogity" as he prepares to get all Eastbound and Down on Sheriff Buford T. Justice (portrayed by the scene-stealing Jackie Gleason)."...
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2005 to date (May 2019) - (White American former NASCAR driver and Fox Sports announcer) Darrell Waltrip's "boogity, boogity, boogity" catchphrase
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Darrell Waltrip recalls first using this saying in 2005.
From https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/04/darrell-waltrip-boogity-catchphrase-origin "Waltrip's 'boogity boogity boogity' catachphrase" By Charles Curtis | April 4, 2019
...Wondering where he came up with that one? We have an answer, courtesy of the Charlotte Observer, which asked Waltrip for the story in 2017: It came from a song called The Streak by Ray Stevens:
“I hated the way a race started on the radio,” he said as we talked in his office. “The announcer would say, ‘The green flag is in the air, and the cars race off into Turn 1.’ Are you kidding me? That’s the best we can do?”
Waltrip said he had that conversation one day with David Hill, who was then the head of Fox Sports. Hill gave Waltrip the green light to try something different at the beginning of races. Waltrip – who by this time was several years into his tenure at Fox as a broadcaster, which started in 2001 – was unsure what it should be.
“It was a Sunday morning in Darlington in ’05 or ’06,” Waltrip recalled. “Now I love country music. I listen to it all the time…. I’m listening to country radio and all of a sudden ‘The Streak’ comes on.”
In his office Tuesday, Waltrip then broke into the chorus of the song, which was about a man streaking through various places in a small town and causing a commotion: “Here he comes – Boogity, boogity! There he goes – boogity, boogity!”
And now you know."
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Some commenters recall Darrell Watrip saying "boogitty" earlier than 2005. For example:
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8by2zu8PgQ&t=99s Darrell Waltrip Boogity Boogity Boogity Compilation, eaton011, Published on May 13, 2012
TestTubeBabySpy, 2015
"+Draven if i remember right when he first said it it was something like "and Boogity down into turn 1" then mike joy pressured him into saying it, then he didnt say it for a while then he caved and said "and by popular demand boogity boogity boogity, then the ppl started with the signs, that was back in like 2000 or 01, and thats the only thing ive ever heard darrell say more than once,,,EVER"
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Darrell Waltrip Boogity Boogity Boogity Compilation
eaton011, Published on May 13, 2012
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The saying "boogity, boogity, boogity" was voiced by Darrell Waltrip in the 2006 animated movie Cars.
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2011 - (White American) Pastor Joe Nelms includes the saying "boogity boogity boogity" in a prayer
From https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2011/07/thanking-god-for-that-smokin-hot-wife July 25, 2011
"Thanking God for that smokin' hot wife" by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
"Before a NASCAR race on Saturday, Pastor Joe Nelms delivered "quite a memorable invocation," The Tennessean reports, naming very specific race cars.
Later in the prayer, Nelms channeled his inner Ricky Bobby when he delved into gratitude for his family.
“Lord, I want to thank you for my smokin’ hot wife tonight, Lisa, and my two childre, Eli and Emma, or as we like to call the, ‘The Little E’s.’ ”
Perhaps the most unforgettable line of the prayer came when Nelms quoted NASCAR Hall of Famer and Franklin resident Darrell Waltrip at the end of his prayer.
“In Jesus’ name, Boogity Boogity Boogity, amen,” Nelms said.
Over at the Orlando Sentinel sports blog, Shannon Owens writes, "It’s clear the prayer was meant to be taken as a joke, but it is unusual for a pastor to joke about prayer." Then you're invited to take a poll:
What do you think about Pastor Joe Nelms' NASCAR prayer?
Outrageously funny. A pastor has a right to make jokes during prayer.
Out-of-bounds. A pastor should have more reverence for prayer.
You get to have two reactions, that's it. I know it's shocking, I tell you, that a pastor might have a little fun."...
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2019- segment of the YouTube "movie" video for Lil Nas X's song "Old Town Road", featuring Billy Ray Cyrus:
Description:
Old Town Road [1889]
Comedian/actor Chris Rock, portraying a Black sheriff, and his two Black deputies are shown riding horses trying to catch a Black cowboy (portrayed by Lil Nas X) who is holding tightly to a large bag of money while racing down a dirt road.
segment begins at .016
Chris Rock’s character [Sheriff ]- Woah!
Deputy #1 – Woah. Boss, I’m flabbergasted. Why we stop?
Sheriff- When you see ah Black man on ah horse goin that fast, you just gotta Let’em fly.
Deputy #2- You right. That’s ah horse horse.
Deputy #1- That is ah horse horse.
4:43
Sheriff- Never seen nothin that fast in my life.
Deputy #1- Never.
Deputy #2 - Gone Gone
Sheriff -faster than ah speedy bullet
Faster than a speedy bullet with grease on it.
Deputy #1 - with grease on it!
Sheriff -hair grease
Deputy #2- hair grease
[4:57] Sheriff - Look at him go-
Boogity, boogity, boogity.
Boogity, boogity, boogity.
Deputy #1 or #2 [stuttering] – boog boog boog boog boog
Sheriff - boogity
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This is an unofficial transcription by Azizi Powell from the YouTube video. Additions and corrections are welcome.
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Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Official Movie) ft. Billy Ray Cyrus
Lil Nas X, Premiered May 17, 2019
Official video for Lil Nas X’s Billboard #1 hit, “Old Town Road (Remix)” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.
Special guest appearances from Chris Rock, Haha Davis, Rico Nasty, Diplo, Jozzy, Young Kio, and Vince Staples.
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Statistics as of May 31, 2019 at 6:42 PM
total # of views - 94,121,383 views
total # of likes - 4,500,000
total # of dislikes - 101,000
total # of comments - 182,517
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Note that the saying "boogity, boogity, boogity" is found in this "movie" video of "Old Town Road" and not in the song itself or in any other video of that song.
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If you know of other popular culture uses of the saying "boogity, boogity, boogity", please share that information in the comment section below.
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