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Lyrics to The Hully Gully
by The Olympics

[edit]Song title: The Hully Gully
[edit]Artist name: The Olympics
[edit]Featuring: [nobody]
[edit]Lyrics language: English
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A-there's a dance spreadin' 'round,
Like an awful disease.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Oh, well, you shake your shoulders,
And you wiggle your knees.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)

This dance goin' around,
From a-coast to coast.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Ah, when me 'n'my baby do it, chil',
We do it the most!
(Hully, Hully Gully.)

A-mama, Hully Gully.
Papa, Hully Gully.
Baby, Hully Gully, too.

C'mon, now, take a lesson now!

(Hully, Hully Gully.)
A'ight, shake your shoulders now.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
A'ight, wiggle your knees now.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Now, flail, now.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)

(Mama, Hully Gully.)
(Baby, Hully Gully.)
(You can Hully Gully, too.)

Weeeeell, I went to a party, now,
And what did they do?
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Now, everybody's doing it,
Now, why ain't you?
(Hully, Hully Gully.)

*Everybody's loose,
Like they got the shakes.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Just listen here, brother,
That is all it takes.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)

((A-mama Hully Gully.))
((Papa Hully Gully.))
((And baby Hully Gully, too.))

((Mama, Hully Gully.))
((Baby, Hully Gully.))
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/35am((And you can Hully Gully, too.))

Fake ending.

(Hol' it, hol' it, hol' it, hol' it,)
(One more time. )
(Hol' it, hol' it.)
One more again!

(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Oh, we're gonna work a lil' while, now.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
That's the way I like it.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
I'm gonna hol' you with it.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)

((Do a little Cha-Cha,))
((Then you do The Buzz Saw{1}.))
((Everybody there's gonna))
((Get on th'floor.))

(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Dig the strange comin' up.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
I mean foreplay,
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Aww, shake that thing, mama.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)

((We're gonna do the Hully Gully,))
((Never gonna stop.))
((Every-everybody here,))
((Learn to do the Style{1}.))

(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Bring uncle along.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Auntie too.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Don't care about the cousins, nieces.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Nephews.

((Uncle, Hully Gully,))
((Auntie, Hully Gully,))
((Brother, sister, nephews,))
((Nieces, grandma too.))

(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Aww, shake that thing.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
That's the way I like it.
(Hully, Hully Gully.)
Fade.
What you have? Shake it...
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The Olympics The Hully Gully Recording details & track overview

"HULLY GULLY"{2a}{2b}{2c} Written by: Cliff Goldsmith & Fred Smith Performed by: The Olympics{3a}{3b} First Released:{4} Single: 1960 [Length: 2:03] Album: 1966 [Length: 2:03]{5} {1}The Buzz Saw & the Style were popular dances of the late 1950s and early 1960s. {2a}"Hully Gully," by the Olympics, sometimes listed as "(Baby) Hully Gully," initiated the hully gully dance craze. {See Notes 2b & 2c} The song reached #72 on the Pop charts in 1960. {2b}The dance, Hully Gully. is a type of unstructured line dance often considered to have originated in the sixties, but is also mentioned some forty years earlier as a dance common in the black juke joints in the first part of the twentieth century. In its modern form it consisted of a series of "steps" that are called out by the MC. Each step was relatively simple and easy to execute; however, the challenge was to keep up with the speed of each step. {2c}The Hully Gully was started by Frank Rocco at the Cadillac Hotel in Miami Bea.....MORE.....(all The Hully Gully track/recording details)

The Olympics biography

The Olympics were a doo-wop group formed in 1957 by lead singer Walter Ward. The group included Eddie Lewis (tenor), Charles Fizer (tenor), Walter Hammond (baritone) and Melvin King (bass) and except for Lewis were friends in a Los Angeles, California high school. Their first record was credited to Walter Ward and the Challengers ("I Can Tell" on Melatone).

After the name change, they recorded "Western Movies," (Demon Records) in the summer of 1958.

In 1960 the group recorded "(Baby) Hully Gully," which initiated the hully gully dance craze. "Big Boy Pete," which the group also released in 1960, served as inspiration for The Kingsmen's "Jolly Green Giant."

Over the next 10 years The Olympics recorded upbeat R&B songs, often about dances popular at the time.

Fizer was shot and killed during the Watts Riots in 1965. Shortly thereafter, King left the group after his sister died in an accidental .....MORE.....(full The Olympics biography)

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