Wooly Bully

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Domingo Samudio (Sam The Sham) who created a wellknown novelty song was persuaded to rename the song he first wanted to call it "Hully Gully". So he used the name of his cat, "Wooly Bully".

 

[jedishrfu]

and here's a tribute to Sam the Sham's song:



and this article in wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooly_Bully

"Wooly Bully" is a reworking of the 1962 tune "Hully Gully Now" on the Dallas-based Gay Shel label by Big Bo & The Arrows (vocal by Little Smitty), which was based on Junior Parker's "Feelin' Good". The song was given the green light after Samudio rewrote the lyrics to replace "Hully Gully" with "Wooly Bully" and a few additional lyrical changes. Samudio retained the "watch it, watch it now" refrain from the original version.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooly_Bully#cite_note-TheBillboardbookof#2singles-14"><span>[</span>14<span>]</span></a>

 

[jedishrfu]

So it seems like the music producers were concerned about copyright issues.

There's some other stuff in the Wikipedia article about some stations banning the song because they were unsure of the lyrics and that the song was actually describing an American Bison.

 

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Nice confirmatory information also found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hully_Gully .