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  • Oleg Cassini, so instrumental in making the Twist the gyre focus of New York nightlife, served as its envoy in the nation's capital, demonstrating it at Kennedy after-parties and introducing a French import called the Hully-Gully.

    A Twist in Time Wolcott, James 2007

  • There is a concise, well-written discussion of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative in this week's Jama by Steven Hully and Deborah Grady.

    The WHI through the Restrospectoscope aka TBTAM 2009

  • Hully-gully is simply a dance which looks like the twist.

    John Lee Hooker Lyrics 2009

  • "Hully Gully", performed by Aliki Vougiouklaki, from the 1964 Greek film "The chaufferine".

    Archive 2009-11-01 SwaG! 2009

  • The Frankie Stein formula was as simple as it was brilliant; cool low budget horror cover art, creepy sounding song names with a suggested dance listing after the title ("Hully Gully, Frug"), and spooky sound effects laid on top of the actual music (which was a potpourri of twist & beat numbers that sometimes had frightful compositional overtones & sometimes didn't).

    Frankie Stein And His Ghouls - Complete Horror mrdantefontana 2006

  • The sooner this new guy shows himself the faster Ray Flynn will be off the air with his dopey refrain "Da Hully Fadda Ah Pope" Pronounced "Pup"....so please get on with the show guys!

    The Chimes at Midnight 2005

  • Hully got the puck up to me at the blue line, Lidstrom said.

    USATODAY.com 2003

  • Everybody surrounded Hully like a magnet and they left me alone.

    NHL - National Hockey League - Buffalo vs. Detroit 2002

  • Frankly da "Hully Fadda our Pope" is well advised to repeat William Burrough's famed admonition:

    The Chimes at Midnight 2004

  • Used by the ancients as an expression of surprise, thus: Hully Gee!

    The Silly Syclopedia Noah [pseud.] Lott

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