― Tom, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave q, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― michael, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― MarkH, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
and the sum of human misery.
― N., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
(his hair does not fall out in winter?)
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― philT, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Maybe Dirty South hip hop is the closest thing to a synthesis of the two mighty Boogies.
― fritz, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Oh pah I quite like RT, but this joke is quite hard not to make.
Who re-introduced the term to rock, engendering the notion of '70s boogie rock - was it Canned Heat?
And how did the term simultaneously get to be a popular one with disco - was the term used much in soul music prior to disco?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 25 September 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)
1. did "boogie" beget "boogaloo" or did "boogaloo" beget "boogie"?
2. was there ever a time when the phrase "boogie on reggae woman" would have made sense to anyone who was not stevie wonder? i mean, of course, i know what it is stevie is trying to say and who he's trying to say it to. but would you have ever thought to say it that way? would anyone?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:51 (eighteen years ago)
John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen" to Canned Heat's "Refried Boogie"
The Boogaloo was a late 60s dance craze, local soul labels in Detroit alone released a slew of "Boo-ga-loo" copycat records
was there ever a time when the phrase "boogie on reggae woman" would have made sense to anyone who was not stevie wonder?
when that song was a hit -- 1974 -- the verb "to boogie" was at its apex of popularity w/the hard-rock teenage stoner crowd. See: "Kings of the Party" from Brownsville Station's School Punks.
Part of Stevie's genius in the 70s was his universalist unifying impulse, effortlessly blending bits of pop rock soul funk disco.
In other words, everybody knew what he was singing about.
I think Canned Heat is exactly where the boogie usage came from.
There's a delicious irony in disco's (re) appropriation of the term, by the later seventies you had "Boogie Oogie Oogie" tapping the same semantic vein as boogie rockers like the Pat Travers Band. see also: old school rappers use of the verb "to rock" y'all.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:19 (eighteen years ago)
"Don't forget to boogie!"
― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago)