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Where "Hoo-Koo-E-Koo" came from?

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Kunihiko Iizuka

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May 7, 1992, 12:30:59 PM5/7/92
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My wife bought a MTB(mountain bike) whose model name is
"Hoo-Koo-E-Koo". We heard that they got that name from a beatles song.

Can anyone tell me in which song this phrase appear and what is it?

Thanks!

Tom Knotts

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May 7, 1992, 4:05:15 PM5/7/92
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>My wife bought a MTB(mountain bike) whose model name is
>"Hoo-Koo-E-Koo". We heard that they got that name from a beatles song.
>
>Can anyone tell me in which song this phrase appear and what is it?
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Frank Martyn

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May 7, 1992, 4:38:20 PM5/7/92
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In article <II.92Ma...@sharp.bu.edu> i...@sharp.bu.edu (Kunihiko Iizuka) writes:
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>My wife bought a MTB(mountain bike) whose model name is
>"Hoo-Koo-E-Koo". We heard that they got that name from a beatles song.
>

Might be.


>Can anyone tell me in which song this phrase appear and what is it?
>

I think it might be a bastardized line from "I Am The Walrus".
Cept I thought the line was more like "Hoo-Koo-E-Chew".

>Thanks!
Your welcome. Freewheelin' Frank

de...@waikato.ac.nz

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May 7, 1992, 5:37:03 PM5/7/92
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In article <1992May7.2...@ampex.com>, fra...@ampex.com (Frank Martyn) writes:


>>My wife bought a MTB(mountain bike) whose model name is
>>"Hoo-Koo-E-Koo". We heard that they got that name from a beatles song.

>>Can anyone tell me in which song this phrase appear and what is it?

> I think it might be a bastardized line from "I Am The Walrus".
> Cept I thought the line was more like "Hoo-Koo-E-Chew".


I'm probably getting a tad picky here... but wasn't it more like
Goo goo be joo ?

Deryl

edward s. chen

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May 7, 1992, 6:19:42 PM5/7/92
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In article <1992May8.0...@waikato.ac.nz> de...@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>In article <1992May7.2...@ampex.com>, fra...@ampex.com (Frank Martyn) writes:
>
>
>>>My wife bought a MTB(mountain bike) whose model name is
>>>"Hoo-Koo-E-Koo". We heard that they got that name from a beatles song.
>
>>>Can anyone tell me in which song this phrase appear and what is it?
>

Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel. ;-)

>> I think it might be a bastardized line from "I Am The Walrus".
>> Cept I thought the line was more like "Hoo-Koo-E-Chew".
>
>
>I'm probably getting a tad picky here... but wasn't it more like
>Goo goo be joo ?
>

The official lyrics read Goo Goo G'Joob.

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Nathaniel Michael Pearson

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May 8, 1992, 2:06:52 AM5/8/92
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No Beatles connection here, except as a strange
pun. My friend goes cross-country running to a place
near the top of Mount Tamalpais, a mountain overlooking
San Francisco across the Golden Gate, called Hoo-Koo-E-Koo.
Knowing that Mt. Tam is a really popular mountain biking
spot in Marin County, and that Marin brand mountain bikes
are really good ones (I think) I would assume that the name
of the bike refers to this locale near the top of Mt. Tam.

Nat Pearson
rain...@leland.stanford.edu

richard ryan

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May 13, 1992, 1:06:51 AM5/13/92
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>I'm probably getting a tad picky here... but wasn't it more like
>Goo goo be joo ?
I think that was "goo goo ga joob." Maybe not. Never mind. It matters.
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Robert James Mohammed Monk

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May 19, 1992, 6:08:57 PM5/19/92
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In article <II.92Ma...@sharp.bu.edu> i...@sharp.bu.edu (Kunihiko Iizuka) writes:
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Sounds like a joke to me. I Am the Walrus contains the words "Goo goo g'joob" Not that I know what they mean.

nigel...@yahoo.com

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Sep 1, 2018, 8:37:35 PM9/1/18
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The Beatles song says kookookachoo Hoo Koo E Koo was a group of coastal Miwok Indians

mch...@colorado.edu

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Nov 12, 2019, 11:06:59 PM11/12/19
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On Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 5:37:35 PM UTC-7, nigel...@yahoo.com wrote:
> The Beatles song says kookookachoo Hoo Koo E Koo was a group of coastal Miwok Indians

Hoo Koo E Ko was an indian tribe that lived north of the Golden Gate before being displaced by settlers. Hoo Koo E referred to the tribe. Ko was a generic name for people. All the rest derives from there.....

geoff

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Nov 13, 2019, 4:54:11 AM11/13/19
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And there was me thinking it was " goo goo ba chube "

geoff
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