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People doing the Hokey Cokey at an annual "Wartime Weekend" in the United Kingdom. The Hokey Pokey (also known as Hokey Cokey in the United Kingdom, Ireland, some parts of Australia, and the Caribbean) [1] is a participation dance with a distinctive accompanying tune and lyric structure.
Also part of the phrase okey, makey. [71] [better source needed] Swedish: okej [72] Thai: โอเค Pronounced "o khe". [73] Turkish: okey Has a secondary meaning referring to the game Okey, from a company that used the word as its name in the 1960s. [74] Urdu: OK [citation needed] Vietnamese: ô-kê Used in Vietnam; okey also used, but ok ...
Okey Dokey, Okie Dokie, or Oki Doki may refer to: Okey dokey (or okey-dokey), an alternate form of "okay" "Okey Dokey", a 2015 song by Zico and Song Min-ho "Okey Dokey" (SKE48 song), released in 2011; Okie Dokie It's The Orb on Kompakt, a 2005 album by the Orb "Oki doki", a song from Lithuania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010
[1] [27] Giving a similar story in a letter to The Times in 1939, Sir Anthony Palmer used the name "General Schliessen" and phrase Oberst Kommandant ("colonel in command"). [1] [28] [29] English Initials of "Open Key" A global telegraph signal meaning "ready to transmit" "1861 or 1862" By 1882 [30] The telegraph was not invented until 1844.
He provided jingles (music for radio advertisements) for various products, including those hawked by disc jockey James "Okey Dokey" Smith. One of Smith's catch phrases was "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", [4] which he used in ad slogans such as "Lawdy Miss Clawdy, eat Mother's Homemade Pies and drink Maxwell House coffee!"
After Famous Studios succeeded Fleischer Studios in 1942, they revived the Spunky character alone for three animated shorts in their Noveltoons series: the patriotic Yankee Doodle Donkey (1944), in a supporting role to Casper the Friendly Ghost in Boo Kind To Animals (1955), and in a simplified drawing style in Okey Dokey Donkey (1958).
He won parts in a number of outside features, appeared in many of the now-numerous Our Gang product endorsements and spin-off merchandise items, and popularized the expressions "Okey-dokey!" and "Okey-doke!" [29] Dickie Moore, a veteran child actor, joined in the middle of 1932 and remained with the series for one year.
The vendors, said to be mostly of Italian descent, supposedly used a sales pitch or song involving the phrase "hokey pokey", for which several origins have been suggested. One such song in use in 1930s Liverpool was "Hokey pokey penny a lump, that's the stuff to make ye jump". [11] The term hokey pokey likely has multiple origins.