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Published: April 11, 1996. WENDELL, Idaho, April 10â Larry LaPrise, a singer who wrote the novelty song-and-dance number The Hokey Pokey for the apres-ski crowd at an Idaho resort, unwittingly creating a classic for nursery schools and roller-skating rinks, died last Thursday at a Boise hospital.
The man who wrote the song, Larry LaPrise, died last week at 83 in Boise, Idaho. He wrote the tune for the Sun Valley, Idaho, ski crowd in the late 1940s, but it took a recording by big band leader Ray Anthony to make the Hokey Pokey a nationwide phenomenon. LaPrise didn't receive royalties for the song until the 1960s, when its rights were purchased by country star Roy Acuff's publishing company.