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Groovy (or, less common, "Groovie") is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s, springing out of African American culture. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "cool", "excellent", "fashionable", or "amazing", depending on context.
The word originated in the jazz culture of the 1920s, in which it referred to the groove of a piece of music and the response felt by its listeners. It is a reference to the physical groove of a record in which the pick-up needle runs. Popular culture heard it at least as early as 9/30/41 Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, when band leader, Billy Mills, uses it to describe his summer vacation. It first appeared in print in Really the Blues, the 1946 autobiography of the jazz saxophonist, Mezz Mezzrow. The word appears in advertising spots for the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street. The term in its original usage had largely vanished from everyday use by 1980.
Starting in the mid-1960s, variations of the word "Groovy" were used in the titles of several popular songs, including:
Actors: Bhasker Patel (actor), Rishi Kapoor (actor), Sunil Shetty (actor), Michelle Collins (actress), Robert Stone (actor), Richard Blackwood (actor), Ronny Jhutti (actor), Shiv Grewal (actor), Rob Stanley (actor), Junior Simpson (actor), Matt McCooey (actor), Aditya Raj (writer), Aditya Raj (director), Michelle Barrett (costume designer), Carl Coleman (actor),
Plot: Set in Birmingham, the story revolves around the trials and tribulations of a group of misfits who come together to form a band that fuses eastern and western music.
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: John Carl Buechler (actor), J.A.C. Redford (composer), Christopher Mitchum (actor), Cliff Emmich (actor), Sherry Jackson (actress), Murray MacLeod (composer), Les Lannom (actor), Bert Hinchman (actor), William Watson (actor), Stephen Snyder (actor), Sondra Theodore (actress), Richard Taylor (writer), Carla Barnett (actress), Richard Cosentino (actor), Sonny Vest (producer),
Plot: Lonigan and his partner Tony, two drug dealers, shoot two cops who attempt to set them up, and run away with a million bucks and the drugs, which they stash in a red Corvette Stingray in a used car lot. When they attempt to recover their stash with their leader, Abigail, they find out that two happy-go-lucky dudes, Elmo and Al, have bought the car. They quickly pursue the two along with the police who think that the car's new owners are the criminals.
Keywords: automobile, automobile-chase, corvette, escape, gun, independent-film, money, nun, nunsploitation, shootingActors: Sam Stewart (actor), Sly and the Family Stone (actor), Lino Desmond (actor), Alou Mitsou (actor), Stan Howard (actor), Jeff Gold (actor), Gloria Stein (actress), Henrik Emyl (producer), Nils Emyl (writer), Rolf Emyl (director), Carl Masters (actor), Ginnie L. Music (editor), William Moneypenny (actor), Tekla Anderson (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Michael Maltese (writer), Len Janson (writer), Joseph Barbera (producer), Daws Butler (actor), Janet Waldo (actress), Larz Bourne (writer), William Callaway (actor), Allan Melvin (actor), Allan Melvin (actor), Don Messick (actor), Don Messick (actor), Daws Butler (actor), Casey Kasem (actor), William Hanna (producer), Chuck Menville (writer),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music,I call her groovy
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Do you want to get down
Do you want to get
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I call her groovy
Do you want to get down
Do you want to get down
Do you want to get
I thought a lot about the groovy girl