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[BiggestBuddyLazierFan]

Well, for nearly two decades NASCAR is marred with "Boogity, Boogity, Boogity, lets get racin ' boys!"

So it qualifies as nostalgia.

My question is where does this line originate from? Where DW got the inspiration for it?

Is there some deeper meaning to it?

If it lasts for a decade more will it became as famous as "gents start your engines" or will it simply die together with DW?

Edited by BiggestBuddyLazierFan, 22 May 2018 - 14:50.

[Risil]

So it qualifies as nostalgia.

"Boogity is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
 
-- Stephen Dedalus

[john winfield]

"Boogity is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
 
-- Stephen Dedalus

 

Risil, scholarships may still be available for this year's Joyce Summer School in Trieste. Spoil yourself, pack in the day job.

[Tim Murray]

It apparently derives from Darrell Waltrip’s friendship with country/novelty singer/songwriter Ray Stevens, who in 1974 came up with the truly abysmal novelty song The Streak, which contained the following chorus:

Here he comes,
(boogity boogity)
There he goes,
(boogity boogity)
And he ain't wearin' no clothes

This inspired Mr Waltrip’s catchphrase.

[Jim Thurman]

While I'm sure Ray Stevens' "The Streak" (which was from the Spring of 1974) is the touchstone for Darrell Waltrip, the phrase turned up in earlier pop records.

 

It turned up in Barry Mann's affectionate and humorous tribute to doo-wop-isms "Who Put The Bomp" from 1961:

 

Each time that we're alone
Boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity shoo

 

But, that was pre-dated by The Coasters "Run Red Run", which was from 1959. A tale of a monkey that learned to play cards and learned enough to notice when he was being cheated. Check out about 30 seconds in:

https://www.youtube....h?v=RdVMQbZwP-0

 

This likely was Stevens' inspiration for using boogity in "The Streak."

 

And there we have it. Far more than you likely wanted to read about the origins of boogity, and far more than I would have preferred to write about it 

[BiggestBuddyLazierFan]

While I'm sure Ray Stevens' "The Streak" (which was from the Spring of 1974) is the touchstone for Darrell Waltrip, the phrase turned up in earlier pop records.

It turned up in Barry Mann's affectionate and humorous tribute to doo-wop-isms "Who Put The Bomp" from 1961:

Each time that we're alone
Boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity shoo

But, that was pre-dated by The Coasters "Run Red Run", which was from 1959. A tale of a monkey that learned to play cards and learned enough to notice when he was being cheated. Check out about 30 seconds in:
https://www.youtube....h?v=RdVMQbZwP-0

This likely was Stevens' inspiration for using boogity in "The Streak."

And there we have it. Far more than you likely wanted to read about the origins of boogity, and far more than I would have preferred to write about it

Thank you!

And what do you think will "Boogity" dissapear when DW dies/retires or will another comentator embrace "Boogity" as a nascar tradition

It's hard for me to imagine Jeff Gordon'take on "Boogity"

Edited by BiggestBuddyLazierFan, 22 May 2018 - 16:23.

[Vitesse2]

Jim beat me to the Barry Mann reference! In the UK a version by The Viscounts made the charts, as did a later release by Showaddywaddy.

 

And of course the original was also answered by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, who recorded I Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp Bomp Bomp ...

[Eric Dunsdon]

I was always amused by the term 'Boogity Boogity'  as used in The Coasters 'Run Red Run'. As Jim says Ray Stevens surely took it from that source having always been influenced by the comedic Rock 'n' Roll records of the 1950's.

[GMACKIE]

Chubby Checker used "Boogity, boogity, boogity, shoo" in one (or more?) of his early songs.

[DCapps]

Chubby Checker used "Boogity, boogity, boogity, shoo" in one (or more?) of his early songs.

 

Boogity has been around the Southern region of the USofA for what might be eons....

[Jim Thurman]

Chubby Checker used "Boogity, boogity, boogity, shoo" in one (or more?) of his early songs.

 

Yes, "Pony Time", also from 1961, and likely the inspiration for Barry Mann's reference in "Who Put The Bomp."

[Jim Thurman]

Boogity has been around the Southern region of the USofA for what might be eons....

 

Absolutely, I was just trying to provide a timeline for the latter pop music usage of the term, since so many seem to stop solely at Ray Stevens' "The Streak."

 

You know all to well how history (and research) often stops at the most convenient point in time, which is the one most people (or the writer) remember.

Edited by Jim Thurman, 22 May 2018 - 23:56.

[Lee Nicolle]

He is a Southerner. I have a friend from there and she uses that expression as well.

[Tim Murray]

Absolutely, I was just trying to provide a timeline for the latter pop music usage of the term, since so many seem to stop solely at Ray Stevens' "The Streak."
 
You know all to well how history (and research) often stops at the most convenient point in time, which is the one most people (or the writer) remember.

The reason I 'stopped' at The Streak was this quote from Darrell Waltrip himself, taken from this article:
 

“It was a Sunday morning in Darlington in ’05 or ’06,” Waltrip recalled. “Now I love country music. I listen to it all the time. Ray Stevens is a really good friend of mine. We play golf together. His attorney is my attorney. So we know each other pretty well. … I’m listening to country radio and all of a sudden ‘The Streak’ comes on.”
In his office Tuesday, Waltrip then broke into the chorus of the song, which was about a man streaking through various places in a small town and causing a commotion: “Here he comes – Boogity, boogity! There he goes – boogity, boogity!”
“That’s it!” Waltrip said thought to himself. “Boogity! Boogity!”
He used the phrase for the first time that day on-air as the race in Darlington began and has used it ever since to commemorate the opening of every race he calls.

I was well aware of some of the earlier musical uses of 'boogity'.

[Jim Thurman]

The reason I 'stopped' at The Streak was this quote from Darrell Waltrip himself, taken from this article:
 

I was well aware of some of the earlier musical uses of 'boogity'.

 

My comment wasn't intended as a knock at you, Tim. I was always sure Darrell Waltrip got his "boogity boogity" from Ray Stevens' "The Streak", I was simply pointing out where Ray got his from    Specifically, I was thinking of a discussion on the U.S. motorsports show "Wind Tunnel" on Speed Channel, where the host and others were trying to figure out if Stevens' use came from an earlier song. I was also referring to claims I've seen that the first use of "boogity boogity" was in Stevens' song.

[BRG]

Well, now that we know from where he got the expression, can we persuade him to take it back and leave it there?

[Vitesse2]

Unsurprisingly the OED doesn't recognise 'boogity' as a word. Nor does Webster's, although it has a pending submission sourced to Waltrip. However, Urban Dictionary does - even coming up with a literary reference to Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man! UD suggests it is 'An onomatopoetic expression of running or other hurried activity, characteristic of traditional African and African American narration. Occurs in Ralph Waldo [sic] Ellison's "Invisible Man;" metrically identical with "imbili imbili," the formula used for the same purposes by African griots -- for example, Fa-Digi Sisoko's Son-Jara. Alternatively, "boogety boogety," "boogedy boogedy."'

[427MkIV]

Boogity has been around the Southern region of the USofA for what might be eons....

 

A mechanic friend of mine here in North Carolina whom I used to help with his dirt and oval cars used to say it regularly, long before Waltrip started announcing. I've also heard it as slang for today's Bugattis.

[dbltop]

Waltrip has trademarked the phrase and sued a store in Canada for using the word Boogity in its name according to google. Something like that " let's get ready to rumble" guy.