Origins of groovy

I dig the word groovy just something about it, something like an elevator going up. I associate it with smoothness and being smooth. Something that has all it’s working parts in harmony. Simply, I find it a hip word. How did it start, what is its appeal to me, am I just nostalgic for times past?

It originated in the 1920’s but didn’t become popular until the 1960’s:

It probably comes from the phrase “in the groove” which apparently means both being able to pick up the feel of a song and the groove in a record.

Hi Wendell

Pleasure to meet you here in the halls, thanks I’ll look at into the groove as well.

[nitpick] Not into the groove, in the groove. [/nitpick]

Nitpicking is good.

How unhip of me.

Nothing wrong with “into the groove”. You can’t be in the groove until you get into the groove, and if a band has a groove going, the audience may really get into it.

The 60s reincarnation was already way past it’s sell-by date when Marcia Brady exhumed it.

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Jokes aside, I always imagined it had something to do with record grooves. Remember vinyl records?

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