The 411 - "Great Googly Moogly"

Great Googly Moogly is a phrase that has been used in popular music lyrics (particularly Rhythm & Blues) by various artists dating back to the 1950s.

Known examples include "Weird Al Yankovic's "Genius in France", Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" medley (1973), The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" (1970), Howlin' Wolf's recording of St. Louis Jimmy Oden's Going Down Slow (1962), and "Stranded in the Jungle" by The Cadets (1956). 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. --

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 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
* Great Googley Moogley Used this as a primary character in a blog storyline.
* The phrase is the primary catchphrase of character David Addison (played by Bruce Willis) on the 80's television show Moonlighting.

The phrase was the comedic tag for a Snickers television commercial in the late 1990s. A scale said "Great Googly Moogly" in the daily Garfield comic strip on November 16, 2008.

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