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Composer Al Tabor was also entertaining Canadian troops in wartime London, and in 1942 he wrote a participation dance song called The Hokey Pokey.. He claims the name came from the London ice cream vendors of his youth, called Hokey Pokey Men.. The accompanying dance was very similar to Kennedy's.
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.