Word: floys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Floy Floy...
...grateful to Mr. Lamale of Wabash, Ind. for clearing up the Floy Floy business. Imagine trying to sleep in an overnight cabin with a community house 20 ft. in back of you where dancing went on from seven to twelve with music from a victrola and 15 records, one of them Flat Foot Floogie. The words from that distance sounded as if somebody were trying to put Flat Foot Susie on the Sidewalk or Coffee Pot or something!;. Spending most of the night wondering if they'd get her there, imagine my confusion in the morning to learn...
...quickly trampled to bits. Only those near the orchestra platforms could hear any music, and a competition among the 50 amateur bands was called off. No one minded. The young jitterbugs danced to their own mouth organs and to 10? saxophones, to no music at all, voicing the appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever witnessed since the Middle Ages' ill-fated Children...
...know I am asking a great deal of you but your position will warrant it. In deciding this, lay aside position and loyalty to your party and tell me from the fullness of your heart: What the deuce is a floy-floy...
Authors of The Flat Foot Floogie with the Floy Floy, Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart, do not know themselves what the words mean. Said Slim: "We were sort of talking a new language." The dance they had vaguely in mind was to be done flatfoot. "When we put the floy floy on it, that was extra business. You got the whole dance right there; you're swinging. See what I mean...