\n“Get down…Boogie oogie oogie”<\/p>\n
\nI recall a kid facing me, back in ’78 or ’79, in a nighttime game of one-on-one basketball, saying those words. I didn’t know about the song, so didn’t understand what he was saying or why.<\/p>\n
\nThe 70s were like two or three different decades. “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” by A Taste of Honey, was released in ’78, and unlike any music from the early 70s, so far as I know. That’s perhaps an interesting part of the 70s: it was a decade that continued to hang on, reinventing itself even as 1980 closed in.<\/p>\n
\nIt would be some years before I realized the kid had been singing “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” no doubt having heard it at home from his parents or older sibling. In the 90s my wife bought me a 70s compilation which includes that song.<\/p>\n
\nAlmost everyone who remembers the 70s recalls “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” even if perhaps not so many know it was by A Taste of Honey. “Boogie Oogie Oogie” became part of the 70s, ever entwined with that amazing decade in memory.<\/p>\n
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genius.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about pop culture and music: the tutor mentions an essential song from the ’70s. “Get down…Boogie oogie oogie” I recall a kid facing me, back in ’78 or ’79, in a nighttime game of one-on-one basketball, saying those words. …<\/p>\n