[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the links! I was going to say “I’ve never heard ‘The Oogum Boogum Song’” but I would have been wrong. I was 16 when it came out, so I was there, but I honestly don’t think I ever heard that title before. I wasn’t a huge fan of soul music at the time (that’s putting it mildly, too).

[nickcarraway]

Yes, it came out before I was born, but, I knew the song before I knew the title.

[nickcarraway]

Another interesting part of the song is the use of the term "bad self." In a dictionary entry it actually lists Super Bad by James Brown for 1970 as the first recorded usage, but this song is actually at least three years earlier.

Also, as someone who wasn't alive in 1967, it mentions a lot of the female fashion from this time:

When you wear your high-heeled boots/With your hip-hugger suit
A lot of songs like one by Booker T & the MGs mention hip-hugger outfits, but I don't know what it refers to.

And you wear that cute miniskirt/With your brother's sloppy shirt

Was that a thing? pairing a miniskirt with a man's shirt? (That was 'sloppy'?)

When you wear your bell bottom pants
Of curse, I knew about bell bottom pants in the 60's and 70's which were inspired by naval trousers.

When you wear those big earrings/Long hair, and things

Any female freepers that can comment, if these sounded like common fashions in those days?