Title and artist for boogie-woogie song.

August 14, 2005 10:35 PM

Back in around 1974, my father used to crank his new stereo and play this song to scare me. I would run out of the room and hide under the bed.

It went "Hey babe, you want to boogie, boogie-oogie-woogie with me" It was acapella I think, and a very deep gravely male voice. There were more words, but I couldn't hear them from under the bed. Can someone help me slay this demon, with the title and artist please?

posted by Dag Maggot to media & arts (10 answers total)

"Boogie" by John Hartford.
posted by xo at 10:44 PM on August 14, 2005

Amazon has a Windows Media sample here, if you wanna boogie scare yourself before bed tonight.
posted by xo at 10:48 PM on August 14, 2005

i remember him doing that on the smothers brothers ... by the way, catfish hodges' "the boogeyman's going to get you" is another scary boogie song ...
posted by pyramid termite at 10:54 PM on August 14, 2005

That's a really creepy song, xo.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:00 AM on August 15, 2005

Isn't it amazing the weird things kids are creeped out by? For years I couldn't listen to the "I buried Paul" portion of "Strawberry Fields Forever," and Ennio Morricone's "Man With A Harmonica" still gives me the wiggins.
posted by kimota at 5:37 AM on August 15, 2005

Why did Amazon try to send me "hurl.exe" when I clicked on that sample?
posted by krisjohn at 6:19 AM on August 15, 2005

For those who don't know, John Hartford was a great storyteller, songwriter and musician and is still revered in acoustic music circles. He wrote many great songs and performed on the O, Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.
posted by wsg at 11:17 AM on August 15, 2005

Thanks for that ... not near as scary as it used to be, and I love the Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. Go figure...
posted by Dag Maggot at 8:51 PM on August 15, 2005

Sounds like your dad, whether inadvertantly or vertantly, must have instilled a bit of irrational fear in your concerning that song, which is really a pretty trite bit of folly, but I could see how the voice could be a little spooky. It just so happens that my favorite local band, Dread Clampitt, does a great, souped-up, very funky version of John Hartford's, Boogie.
posted by wsg at 1:22 AM on August 16, 2005

It's h url I'm guessing. Amazon has that for all their samples, seems to be harmless with firefox.
posted by parallax7d at 9:23 AM on August 16, 2005