Question about the Hokey Pokey

[salemfan]

I noticed that in all the versions of the Hokey Pokey I have ever seen, the character demonstrating it has never been a pony (because of what Pokey is). Interestingly though, why isn't it called the "Clokey's Pokey"? (That's who created Pokey.) Or the Humby Gumby?

 

[Rose]

Sorry? not sure what you mean? Could you send a video for an example?

 

[BoomerangFish]

Are you referring to the dance Hokey Pokey that children do? I don't think that has anything to do with horses. Pokey (Gumby's friend) I think was named so because horses tend to "poke along."

 

[Yorick]

I love Gumby, and I'm thankful Art Clokey's work lives on! As for the Hokey Pokey, I like that song too, and as far as I know, it's not related to Pokey from Gumby - but I've been wrong before

 

[GonzoLover85]

The real question I'm dying to know:

Is the hokey-pokey really what it's all about?

 

[mr3urious]

I do know that the song is called the Hokey Cokey in Britain.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I do know that the song is called the Hokey Cokey in Britain.

You dont wanna know what came into my head...

 

[mr3urious]

You dont wanna know what came into my head...

What's wrong with Coca-Cola?

 

[salemfan]

Are you referring to the dance Hokey Pokey that children do? I don't think that has anything to do with horses. Pokey (Gumby's friend) I think was named so because horses tend to "poke along."

Yes, I am referring to the dance Hokey Pokey that children do.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

From Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_Cokey

The inspiration for the song's title, "The Hokey Pokey", that resulted, came from an ice cream vendor whom Al had heard as a boy, calling out "Hokey pokey penny a lump. Have a lick make you jump". He changed the name to "The Hokey Cokey" at the suggestion of the officer who said that 'hokey cokey', in Canada, meant 'crazy' and would sound better

Before the invention of ice cream cones, ice cream was often sold wrapped in waxed paper and known as a hokey-pokey (possibly a corruption of the Italian ecco un poco - "here is a little")[2] An Italian ice cream street vendor was called a hokey-pokey man.

But then it goes on to talk about relatives with conflicting origin stories. So...I dunno.