Just after Chamberlain announced the declaration of war and the Rowans were listening on the radio, Suzy starts singing or chanting something and Billy snaps "Stop that, Suzy. You don't know what it means, you just sing it!" so what was Suzy singing?
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Flat Foot Floogee - Benny Goodman
My grandmother used to sing this song and it will really get in your head, as nonsense songs do: Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy. Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.
shareWasn't that little girl absolutely precious? So darling! I kept wishing I could scoop her up from the screen and give her a big hug. What an adorable little angel -- she really stole my heart! :)
shareI'd heard it before, but about the last time I came across it was in a comic book uttered by Huckleberry Hound, in the 70s. Didn't really know it was a song.
Seems to be have been a nonsensical song, like Louie Louie, to upset the grownups as they don't know what it is really saying.
Flat Foot Floogee obviously sounds like flat foot floozie, so you can pretty much imagine how suggestive that was for that time.
Bill says to their mother after he tells Sue to stop singing it that she doesnt know what it means.
Flat foot floogie was written by Slim Gailard, who developed his own "Hep cat" langague for many of his songs.
Something particularly splendid might be described as Mc Vouty O'rooni.
Whereas Ice cream was simply Tutti Fruity O'rooni.
Originally the song was recorded as Flat Foot Floozie, but was rerecorded with the less suggestive Floogie instead. This allowed the phrase floy floy to fly past the censors... it was a little known slang for Venereal disease.
Correct. My mom also sang it thinking it was nonsense and not realizing a floy floy was an STD. But can Billy possibly have known that? He was very young and from a different country than that slang originated, and in fact knew only one swear word and the other boys had to teach him more.
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