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To: teeman8r

Boogaloo was a pseudonym used by the lead singer for the Coasters (Kent Harris) when he cut some records for other labels.

Cops and Robbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9xBjHQIE8

Clothes Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkTlTLxlGx0

Shoppin’ For Clothes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikp9jb_9f5s


25 posted on 06/30/2020 1:56:48 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: a fool in paradise
Boogaloo was a pseudonym used by the lead singer for the Coasters (Kent Harris) when he cut some records for other labels.

Thanks for posting those links. I was heretofore unaware of Boogaloo & His Gallant Crew, an early rap group. Although they failed to chart nationally, Bo Diddley scored a hit with "Cops and Robbers" in 1957,the year after Boogaloo's version came out.

39 posted on 06/30/2020 2:31:04 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: a fool in paradise

That has nothing to do with this.


58 posted on 06/30/2020 3:22:04 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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