[Ads-l] Boogaloo

[Jonathan Lighter]

My generation used to dance "the boogaloo" in the late '60s.  Or is that
too obvious to mention?

MW suggests "boogie" + "hullabaloo."

Plausible, since "Hullabaloo" was the name of a roughly
contemporaneous rock 'n' roll show on network TV.

JL

JL

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

> > On Jun 2, 2020, at 9:04 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > The phrase "Civil War II - Electric Boogaloo" appeared in a Usenet
> > message in October 1994. The phrase referred to the possibility of a
> > second U.S. Civil War. Read the message to see the context. It looks
> > like the person who used it was "MA Hovi".
> >
> > Usenet distributed message system
> > Newsgroups: alt.tv.melrose-place
> > From: ig... at ellis.uchicago.edu (Sleepy)
> > Subject: Re: U.S. CIVIL WAR IMMINENT
> > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 06:03:47 GMT ...
>
> I'm no longer able to keep up with exchanges on ADS-L, so this is no dount
> something already posted about (possibly by Ben Zimmer), but "Electric
> Boogaloo" started as te name of a funk-oriented dance style, celebrated in
> 1the 1984 movie Breakin' 2: Electric Bougaloo, featuring the celebratory
> "Electric Boogaloo" pop song by duo Ollie & Jerry. The history of the term
> after that is extraordinarily complex. And I trust someone has looked into
> where "boogaloo" came from.
>
> But this is probably all old stuff. I'm posting this just in case it isn't
> already in the ADS-L record. This would probably be a good time for me to
> go silent on ADS-L, in any case.
>
> arnold
>
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