{"id":6476,"date":"2015-10-15T07:54:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2019-05-15T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:11:41","slug":"hokey-pokey-vs-hokey-cokey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/hokey-pokey-vs-hokey-cokey\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokey pokey vs. hokey cokey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While watching a crazy amount of British television programming I started wondering on the differences between the U.S.&#8217;s Hokey pokey and the U.K.&#8217;s Hokey cokey. It turns out its variations and history is much more interesting than I thought (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hokey_cokey\">Wikipedia<\/a>).\u00a0 Some form of hokey pokey has been traced to the 17th century and it may have been thought up as a way to make fun of Catholic priests performing the tradition Latin mass. \u00a0 It has variations in Australia, the Philippines and Denmark.\u00a0 The modern U.K. version was printed in 1942, and may have been recorded around that time.\u00a0 The U.S. version was also recorded in the late 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Rather sensibly, the U.K. considers the hokey cokey a traditional song, meaning anyone can make use of it and it is not protected by copyright.\u00a0 Insensibly, Sony holds the copyrights over the hokey pokey.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_P9PU5FcMQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7d8eMEzGWLk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching a crazy amount of British television programming I started wondering on the differences between the U.S.&#8217;s Hokey pokey and the U.K.&#8217;s Hokey cokey. It turns out its variations and history is much more interesting than I thought (Wikipedia).\u00a0 Some form of hokey pokey has been traced to the 17th century and it may&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/hokey-pokey-vs-hokey-cokey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hokey pokey vs. hokey cokey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[199,111],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-history","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6609,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/public-knowledge-celebrates-court-decision-in-happy-birthday-case-public-knowledge\/","url_meta":{"origin":6476,"position":0},"title":"Public Knowledge Celebrates Court Decision in &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; Case &#8211; Public Knowledge","author":"leems","date":"October 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Hooray! 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