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unusual facts about boogaloo



Al Gamble

Earlier in 2007, while on a break from touring, Edmaiston joined Memphis guitar player Joe Restivo, drummer George Sluppick and Al Gamble to form The Grip, a four-piece jazz instrumental band specializing in boogaloo music.

Cops and Robbers

"Cops and Robbers", a 1956 song by Kent Harris aka "Boogaloo And His Gallant Crew" and made popular by Bo Diddley

Joe Cuba

In 1966, his band which included timbales, congas, sometimes bongos, bass, vibraphones, and the piano among its musical instruments, scored a "hit" in the United States National Hit Parade List with the song "Bang Bang" - which helped kick off the popularity of the boogaloo.

Jørn Øien

Other cooperation was with Knut Værnes, Staffan William-Olsson's records Smile (1998) and Oak road boogaloo (2000), Alf Kjellman Project, Beady Belle and Trionic, Ole Jacob Hansen, Espen Lind's band, Espen Rud Sextett, awarded Spellemannprisen 1998 for the album Rudlende, Tine Asmundsen's «Lonely Woman», and Geir Lysne's «Listening Ensemble».

Shabba Doo

The song "Higher" by Taio Cruz includes the lyrics, I feel like Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo You play Kelly, I’ll be Ozone.

Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987

As the songs title contained the trademark names Coca-Cola and the Swedish chewing gum Bugg, the European Broadcasting Union demanded that the lyrics would be changed before the Brussels final, so the song was renamed Boogaloo.

Toonattik

Commander Action, a Spanish veteran of the skies (David Kangas - also the Producer and Director) led the rest of this team made up of Gribulous Bertnog Pimplewix, an alien (Mike Rance), Boogaloo, a protocol droid and library management system (Simon Fielding) and Akira Neo 'Rocket Girl', the ships engineer (Anna Singleton) in their mission to 'Save the world, one cartoon at a time' from the evil Dr. Poopanski - Poopants (Jimmy Hunt).

Viktor Manoel

Viktor Manoel has also appeared in movies such as Staying Alive (1983) directed by Sylvester Stallone, Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo (1984), Glass Spider (1988) directed by David Mallet (David Bowie's Glass Spider Tour show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Australia - November 1987), and Female Perversions (1997) directed by Susan Streitfeld.


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