Great googily moogily

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:56 PM -0500 3/24/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>         I would say it goes back to the song "Good Googa Mooga,"
>>which I believe was by the Magic Tones in 1953.  It seems to be
>>best-known for Frank Zappa's use in "Nanook Rubs It," There's a
>>discussion of the term at
>>http://www.1960sailors.net/05c1_googamooga.htm.
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>>John Baker
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>"... Best-known for Frank Zappa's use ,,,"
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>Who's Frank Zappa?
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>-Wilson Gray

The maternal grandfather of invention.

Larry