" Hully Gully" is a song written by Fred Sledge Smith and Clifford Goldsmith and recorded by The Olympics

The Olympics (band)

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. Released in 1959, the song peaked at number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1960, and sparked the Hully Gully

Hully Gully

The Hully Gully is a type of unstructured line dance often considered to have originated in the sixties, but is also mentioned some forty years earlier as a dance common in the black juke joints in the first part of the twentieth century. In its modern form it consisted of a series of "steps" that...

 dance craze.

Cover versions

"(Baby) Hully Gully" was covered

Cover version

In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 by a number of different artists, sometimes under the name "Hully Gully (Baby)", "Hully Gully Baby" or simply "Hully Gully".

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