who wrote the hokey pokey
Published: April 11, 1996. WENDELL, Idaho, April 10â Larry LaPrise, a singer who wrote the novelty song-and-dance number The Hokey Pokey for the apres-ski crowd at an Idaho resort, unwittingly creating a classic for nursery schools and roller-skating rinks, died last Thursday at a Boise hospital.
Composer Al Tabor was also entertaining Canadian troops in wartime London, and in 1942 he wrote a participation dance song called The Hokey Pokey.. He claims the name came from the London ice cream vendors of his youth, called Hokey Pokey Men.. The accompanying dance was very similar to Kennedy's.