OT - Larry la Prise

"The Big Baguette" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Jazz News carries the story of the death last week of Larry La Prise at the age of 93. He was best
known as the man who wrote the Hokey Cokey. Apparently, he gave his family trouble to the end.
They got his coffin ready (I guess they'd call it his casket). They put his left leg in ... and
that's when the trouble started.

much googling made me think this was an entirely ficticious story.

he was 83 and died in 1996

"W K" <[email hidden]> wrote

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much googling made me think this was an entirely ficticious story. he was 83 and died in 1996

You boring git!!!

JIMMY KENNEDY
(1903 - 1984) songwriter
Born Omagh, County Tyrone

Brought up in Portstewart, County Derry, and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He taught for a while in England before taking up songwriting. He was prolific and successful. His first big success was 'The Teddy Bears' Picnic', followed by many others still popular today, including 'Red Sails in the Sunset', 'South of the Border', 'Play to Me, Gypsy' and 'Love Is Like a Violin'. He also wrote the 'Cokey-Cokey' (later called the 'Hokey-Cokey'😉.

Bing Crosby recorded nine of his songs and became a friend. He composed more than a thousand airs and won two Ivor Novello Awards for his contribution to British music. He was awarded an honorary degree from NUU, and the OBE. He lived in Greystones, County Wicklow, for some years in the seventies and died in hospital in Cheltenham, England, on 6 April 1984, survived by his wife, Elaine, two sons, and a daughter.

Source: A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Henry Boylan (ed.), Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1998.