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What is great googly moogly from?

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Ok, i never post that often, but i need your guy's help. I just said Great Googly Moogly and i know i didnt come up with it. So where is it from if its even from anything?
 
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From that snickers commercial ... where the guy paints the endzone with the Chefs instead of the Chiefs.

Is that it?
 
Originally posted by: jlarsson
From that snickers commercial ... where the guy paints the endzone with the Chefs instead of the Chiefs.

Is that it?
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I remember that commercial, but dont remember that, although my friend now says that is what its from. I think you are the winner, i can finally sleep now.
 
Originally posted by: jlarsson
From that snickers commercial ... where the guy paints the endzone with the Chefs instead of the Chiefs.

Is that it?
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yah that's it, or at least how i know of great googly moogly. I use to have a bad habit saying it.
 
Before Zappa is Howling Wolf in the early 60's. The expression probably started in the 50's though before either of these guys made it popular.
 
Originally posted by: jlarsson
From that snickers commercial ... where the guy paints the endzone with the Chefs instead of the Chiefs.

Is that it?
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"That's great.. But who are the 'Chefs'"?
 
Originally posted by: jjones
Before Zappa is Howling Wolf in the early 60's. The expression probably started in the 50's though before either of these guys made it popular.
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I think this is the one.
 
I heard it growing up in the 50's. I recall it as an old music term (my dad was a jazz piano player). It took a while to find it, but here's a web reference
Great Googly Moogly!

From: chase@aros.net (Chase Kimball)

This is an expression I have heard older blues artists use in songs. Somewhere in my voluminous collection is a Muddy Waters (or somebody like him) song where the phrase is used. I have been reviewing my collection to try and find the exact song, but it is going to take time.
From: Richard S Johnson <rsjohnso@naz.edu>

Howlin' Wolf said it in one of the spoken parts of "Goin' Down Slow". Is that what you're thinking of? I hope this helps.
From: onthecornr@aol.com (OnTheCornr)

I suspect that Zappa's use of "Great Googly Moogly" was more directly inspired by "Stranded In The Jungle" by the Cadets and/or the Jayhawks (the two groups had competing Top 20 versions simultaneously in 1956). "Stranded In The Jungle" was always one of FZ's favorite songs, and he performed it onstage at least once (the band with Bianca Odin, Halloween 1976 NYC). "Stranded" also predates Howlin' Wolf's use of the phrase in "Going Down Slow," which was recorded in 1961.
From: chase@aros.net (Chase Kimball)

I have that particular Howlin' Wolf song, and reviewed it. I am not sure if that is what I am thinking of though. I have the sound of some high energy blues baritone shouting it into the microphone in my head, and Mr. Burnett says it with a great deal of resignation. Perhaps I am mixing up his statement of the creed with the way Zappa says it. However, I have spent a lot of time with my blues CDs trying to find what is in my head, and have utterly failed, so perhaps my memory is faulty. In any event, my original post still stands and is vindicated, and I think the FAQ file should reflect the proper origins of Great Googly Moogly. Certainly Zappa and Burnett deserve no less.
From: ivester@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)

I had also heard the "Great googly moogly" in a 50's blues record I just can't remember if it was a Howling Wolf or Muddy Waters, but I'm pretty sure it was one of them.
I believe that was "If I Never Get Well Again" by Howlin' Wolf. Obviously, Frank listened to that song when he was young and well. I wonder if he listened to it again when the lyrics described his own situation.
From: biffyshrew@aol.com (Biffyshrew)

The title of this song (at least as it appears on the classic "rocking chair" LP) is actually "Going Down Slow." This recording is from 1961. Is there another version with a different title?
An earlier citation of the phrase "great googly moogly" is "Stranded In The Jungle," a simultaneous hit in 1956 in competing versions by the Cadets and the Jayhawks. Zappa played this song live in 1976, and also played it on the radio a time or two.
From: Charles Ulrich' forthcoming book Project/Object

"Great googly moogly" is an expression that had been uttered by Willie Dixon in Howlin' Wolf's 1961 recording of "Going Down Slow". Another variant, "great googa mooga", was uttered by Prentice Moreland in the Cadet's 1956 recording of "Stranded In The Jungle", a song which FZ performed on the fall 1976 tour.
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that's from www.arf.ru, maybe not the most reliable of sources.

A "googly-moogly" is one of those percussion instruments that makes a peculiar sound.

On a more recent note, it's what Ferocious Beast says in Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, if you happen to watch kids' TV.
 
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Chet Harper: [ confused ] What?

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Chet Harper: I'm just riffin', man. That's all.

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Originally posted by: TRDGT
It's from Frank Zappa's "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow".
I believe it's off of his Apsostrophe album.
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That's the earliest known reference that I know of also. First thing I thought of.
 
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