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3 unusual facts about Polly Wolly Doodle


Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday

"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" is a 1979 single by euro disco band Boney M. as an adaption of nursery rhyme Polly Wolly Doodle.

Polly Wolly Doodle

Popular early 20th century child actor Shirley Temple also sang "Polly Wolly Doodle" in the 1935 film, The Littlest Rebel.

"Polly Wolly Doodle" appears in the existing manuscript for Laura Ingalls Wilder's These Happy Golden Years exactly as it is used in the published version.


Oceans of Fantasy

The album had been preceded in the spring of 1979 by the single "Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (based on American folksong Polly Wolly Doodle), one of the band's biggest hits.


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