Great Googly Moogly
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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 [1]
Known examples include "Weird Al Yankovic's "Genius in France", Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" medley [2] (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. --[3]
Other variations have also been used.
- "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 Crook By Da Book: The Fed Story
- It also appears in the song "Change the Beat" from the MF Doom album Twisted Metal: Pt.1
- "Great Googa Mooga" was said by Orlando Jones in the 2002 movie Evolution
More recently, the phrase has moved into the non-musical world, being used in a variety of US and British TV shows and comics.
