Ging Gang Goolie (Remastered 2023)
"Ging Gang Goolie" is a gibberish nonsense song which is common with Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, and Non-Binary Rovers. It was first recorded in 1966 by Dirk McQuickly and Stig O'Hara as a song on the Rutles album Semi-Automatic.
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August 18 1978 |
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Gibberish nonsense, Reggae, Pop |
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Dirk and Stig did another version of the song in 1978, which was widely reported as being one of their first mainstream solo projects after the breakup of The Rutles. It came packaged with a second song, "Mr. Sheene", a dedication to Barry Sheene.
News of these two songs were covered in the first issue of the Rutles fanzine Rutles Forever. In a letter to the magazine, McQuickly stated that the pair intended to release a full album together, but this never came to pass. [1] McQuickly has also claimed that the pair recorded a music video for the song. However, this music video was exceptionally rare, not even being known to exist on bootlegs. [2][3] Recently, the music video has been found.[4]
See also[]
- Gin Gan Goolie - Another version of the song recorded by Dirk's brother Rick McQuickly in The Scaffold.
Footnotes[]
- ↑ "Dirk's" full letter to Rutles Forever was reprinted in the 2019 collection The More Than Compleat Rutles Forever
- ↑ https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/1011133513477840896
- ↑ https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/1288179213028081665
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SOaDKHoCk