Uploaded by walkindsky on Nov 5, 2009
A song from the movie "Swing Kids" (1993), directed by Thomas Carter, with Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley...
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The tune was written by Slim Gaillard of Slim and Slam (Slam Stewart), who wrote and performed many racy tunes of the day. Slam Stewart pioneered playing bass solos with a German bow and humming along an octave higher, inspiring others like Major Holley on bass and even George Benson on guitar years later. Check 'em out!
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I didn't know the words meant anything,thought it was just another silly song from the era!!My mother used to sing the song and go truckin' on down!!
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Long live rock'n roll? Long live Swing!
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SORRY, THEY HAD TO SAY FLOOGEE,FLOOGIE, AND SO ON IN 1938-48 MY BAD, BUT WE KNOW WHAT THEY MEANT
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@jfiercecookie Me Too
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Indeed - the "flat foot floogee" was slang for a bombastic, uncouth woman. The "floy floy" was the disease. I love dancing to this song, but knowing the meaning does slightly ruin it for me.
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I heard that is is a well disguised song about veneral disease.
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@mothertisfast my father used to sing it, bit i've never heard it till now
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Benny Goodman grew up with yiddish speaking parents. So did Harry James, Artie Shaw and many others. 'Floy' is yiddish for flea in case anyone wants to know.
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love the picture!
good music, love benny goodman
jfiercecookie 2 years ago 9
Not heard this for over sixty years. Great.
ocwmwen 3 months ago 6