In the song, Rick Derringer sings “I hope y’all know what I’m talking about.”
Well, no. I’m afraid I don’t. Not at all.
Is a “hoochie-koo” a woman? A party? A concert venue? Looking at my questions, I guess I’m reasonably confident that it is a noun of some sort, but I guess I can’t be 100% certain. Is it perhaps an adjective (adverb?) modifying “rock and roll”?
I had to look up the lyrics to be sure, but my first thought was that he was talking about having sex with groupies.
I think you need the rest of the verse to understand what he is talking about.
I hope you all know what I’m talkin about
the way they wiggle that thing really knocks me out
gettin high all the time, hope you all are too
come on little pussy gonna do it to you
The rest of the lyrics more or less support my theory I think. Though the groupie bit is debatable I suppose. He might just be talking about getting high and having sex to good ol’ rock and roll.
I wish somebody’d tell me what that Diddy Wah Diddy means.
Rock & roll hoochie koo / Lawdy mama, bite my shoes!
Everyone was always talking about who put the bomp, but I always wanted to know just what is was.
Rammalammadingdang
Me, I’m just playing with my ding-a-ling-a-ling.
Son, you’re really thinking about this too hard. Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll. That’s all it’s about. don’t sweat the details. Maybe it sounded better than “Scooby Do” or “Rooty Too” or something.
Alright, alright. I’ll give it a shot…
From Urban Dictionary we get:
That’s the polite version.
Keep in mind the UD definition is from 2004 and the Derringer tune is of the early '70s. However, I believe the essence (eew) of what constitutes a hoochie is roughly the same.
Now for the second part:
Or something. Hang on…
puts on Frankenstein, takes big hit on doobie, holds it in, exhales
aaah…what were we talking about?
Building on mack’s research, from “Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang”, we get:
Everybody knows that the bird is the word
IIRC, in the lyrics on his album, it was “Come on a little closer, gonna do it to you.”
I also think it’s more pronounced as same on J. Winter’s version, which had Derringer playing.
Been years, though, so I could be wrong.
greatshakes
He’s still kicking around, still playing that song about screwing groupies, inconsistent though it may be with his testimonial that
“the Lord allowed me to survive drugs, alcohol and sins of the flesh so that I can stand here today as an example”… an example of what, I’m not sure, but he’s also happy to tell you about his “vision”, which seems to be some kind of home business scheme.
I’ve got it on my MP3 player. The first several times I listened, I thought he said “little pussy,” but the last time it came on, I was paying closer attention, and I agree that the lyric is indeed “a little closer.”
Yeah, the hoochie coochie was a sexually suggestive belly dance or striptease. As found in the earlier Coasters song Little Egypt (audio):
*She let her hair down and
she did the hoochie koochie real slow, wo wo,
When she did her special number on a zebra skin,
I thought she’d stop the show, wo wo, *
I’m sure “hoochie coo” as used in the song just means sex, or a dance leading up to it, or is a shout-out to the girls wiggling out in the audience.
(The Urban Dictionary usage of hoochie to describe a particular type of woman is more recent IME.)
Damn internet lyric sites! “Come on a little closer” is a whole lot less suggestive. Well, a little bit less suggestive a least.
