Jeffery, Morgan (19 December 2012). " 'Doctor Who' Steven Moffat on new TARDIS: 'It's quite a scary place' ". Digital Spy . Retrieved 27 December 2012. Mostly performed in the British style of the dance, it is known as the "boogie woogie" (pronounced / ˌ b ʊ ɡ iː ˈ w ʊ ɡ iː/). [17] Germany [ edit ]

Pinkie Pie performs a variation of the hokey cokey, titled "The Pony Pokey", in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode " The Best Night Ever". Doctor Who Magazine. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics (455). 13 December 2012. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)

The 1947 British film Frieda features a group of dancers in a dance hall singing and performing the hokey cokey. In 2008, an Anglican cleric, Canon Matthew Damon, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, claimed that the dance movements were a parody of the traditional Catholic Latin Mass. [11] Up until the reforms of Vatican II, the priest performed his movements facing the altar rather than the congregation, who could not hear the words very well, nor understand the Latin, nor clearly see his movements. At one point the priest would say " Hoc est corpus meum" Latin for "This is My body" (a phrase that has also been suggested as the origin of the similar-sounding stereotypical magician's phrase " hocus-pocus"). That theory led Scottish politician Michael Matheson in 2008 to urge police action "against individuals who use it [the song and dance] to taunt Catholics". Matheson's claim was deemed ridiculous by fans from both sides of the Old Firm (the rival Glasgow football teams Celtic and Rangers) and calls were made on fans' forums for both sides to join together to sing the song on 27 December 2008 at Ibrox Stadium. [12] Close relatives of Jimmy Kennedy and Al Tabor have publicly stated their recollections of the origin and meaning of the Hokey Cokey, and have denied its connection to the Mass. [13] [14] Those accounts differ, but they are all contradicted by the fact that the song existed and was published decades before its supposed composition in the 1940s.

Lloyd, John; John Mitchinson (2007-08-07). The Book of General Ignorance. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 229. ISBN 978-0-307-39491-0. In 1953, Ray Anthony's big band recording of the song turned it into a nationwide sensation. The distinctive vocal was by singer Jo Ann Greer, who simultaneously sang with the Les Brown band and dubbed the singing voices for such film stars as Rita Hayworth, Kim Novak, June Allyson, and Esther Williams. (She also charted with Anthony later the same year with the song "Wild Horses".) The horror-themed heavy metal band Haunted Garage recorded a humorous hardcore punk version of the hokey pokey on their album Possession Park (1991). Martinovic, Paul (1 September 2012). "Steven Moffat thanks press and fans for saving 'Doctor Who' surprise". Digital Spy . Retrieved 30 December 2012. The highlight of the video is the Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer break at 1:21 which a snowman plays on a cheap Casio keyboard using his carrot nose - genius!

For other uses, see Hokey pokey (disambiguation). People doing the Hokey Cokey at an annual "Wartime Weekend" in the United Kingdom