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  • It came out of Philly funk that started in jazz back with a guitar player named Bugaloo Joe Jones--the bugaloo funky beat, and funky twangy guitar, congo drums, bongos, and then Gil Scott Heron started telling a story to it and the Last Poets started poeticizing the War that will be on television, and up around Chi-Town, too, with Lester Bowie and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

    Hippity-Hopping Down Bunny's Trail The Daily Growler 2006

  • The jacket is fancy and makes me want to bugaloo pop and lock.

    Best Week Ever 2009

  • "He would make up little jingles like 'I know why you're sad and blue because you can't do the bugaloo,'" Steve Mabe said.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2009

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