Predating "boogaloo"

[Wilson Gray]

HDAS dates "boogaloo" to 1974 as a noun, to 1972 as part of a verb
phrase and to 1971 as a verb, noting that all uses derive from the name
of a dance popular in the 'Sixties.

An otherwise-unknown singer, Kent Harris, fronting two different
equally otherwise-unknown bands, Freddie Simon's Band and Ernie
Freeman's Combo (Ernie Freeman did enjoy his fifteen minutes of fame as
a solo act) recorded several songs under the name, "Boogaloo and His
Gallant Crew," for Crest Records in 1956.

-Wilson Gray