Great Googly Moogly

Great Googly Moogly is a phrase which has been used in popular music lyrics (particularly Rhythm & Blues) by various artists dating back to the 1950s [ [http://www.arf.ru/Notes/Apostro/rubsit.html ARF: Notes and Comments: APOSTROPHE('): Nanook Rubs It ] ]

Known examples include "Weird Al Yankovic's "Genius in France", Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" medley [ [http://lyrics.rare-lyrics.com/F/Frank-Zappa/Nanook-Rubs-It.html "Nanook Rubs It"] ] (1973), The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" (1970) and Howlin' Wolf's recording of St. Louis Jimmy Oden's "Going Down Slow" (1962). There is some evidence (unverified) of earlier uses by other musicians:

At the very least, R&B legend Screamin' Jay Hawkins uttered it as an exuberant exclamation of extreme excitement in "Person to Person" (1957): the line in question finding SJH extolling his far-away (cheerbabe?) girlfriend to "bring your big fine foxy great googly moogly lord-look-at-that self on home." I’ve got some vague recollection that SJH used the phrase in other tunes – and I know Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper lovingly borrowed it on a track or two of their first few albums in the mid-1980s. -- [ [http://www.footballoutsiders.com/ramblings.php?p=67&cat=7 Gil R.] ,]

Other variations have also been used.
* The phrase is uttered several times per episode by the character The Ferocious Beast in the children's television program Maggie and the Ferocious Beast.
*"Googly Moogly" is a song by The Loungs, featured on their debut album "We Are The Champ"
*"Good Googly Moogly" is repeated in the chorus of "Good Googly Moogly" by Project Pat in ""
*It also appears in the song "Change the Beat" from the MF Doom album ""
*"Great Googa Mooga" was said by Orlando Jones in the 2002 movie "Evolution"
* [http://www.thegreatgoogleymoogley.com Great Googley Moogley] Used as the DBA of a fictitious independent film company.

The phrase was also the comedic tag for a Snickers television commercial in the late 1990s. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSAXLayoMKI]

More recently, the phrase has moved into the non-musical world, being used in a variety of US and British TV shows and comics.

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