{"history":[],"article":{"id":"c44864e8-33a1-4be1-946f-e7d93cdf8de8","title":"Hokey Pokey (album)","slug":"hokey-pokey-album","content":":::summary\n![Hokey Pokey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Hokey///Pokey.jpg)\n**Name:** Hokey Pokey \n**Type:** Studio album \n**Artist:** [Richard and Linda Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/richard-and-linda-thompson) \n**Released:** April 1975 \n**Recorded:** September – October 1974 \n**Studio:** Sound Techniques, [London](https://bliptext.com/articles/london) \n**Genre:** [Folk rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/folk-rock) \n**Length:** 36:02 (original) · 52:36 (2004 reissue) \n**Label:** [Island](https://bliptext.com/articles/island-records) \n**Producer:** [Richard Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/richard-thompson-musician) and [Simon Nicol](https://bliptext.com/articles/simon-nicol) \n**Prev Title:** [I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight](https://bliptext.com/articles/i-want-to-see-the-bright-lights-tonight) \n**Prev Year:** 1974 \n**Next Title:** [Pour Down Like Silver](https://bliptext.com/articles/pour-down-like-silver) \n**Next Year:** 1975 \n:::\n\n# \n**Hokey Pokey** is the second album by the British duo of singer [Linda Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/linda-thompson-singer) and singer/songwriter/guitarist [Richard Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/richard-thompson-musician).\nIt was recorded in the autumn of 1974 and released in the year 1975.\nMuch of the material on the Hokey Pokey album was written sometime before the album was recorded and even predates the Thompsons' conversion to Islam.\nIn terms of musical style Thompson's songwriting on this album reflects a number of British styles despite not being in the English folk-rock style of \"Bright Lights\": Music Hall, English hymns, traditional brass bands, pub sing-alongs and even the double entendres of [George Formby](https://bliptext.com/articles/george-formby-jr) are all discernible.\nIn many cases, Thompson juxtaposes an upbeat tune with a bleak lyric.\nIt was voted number 604 in the third edition of [Colin Larkin](https://bliptext.com/articles/colin-larkin)'s [All Time Top 1000 Albums](https://bliptext.com/articles/all-time-top-1000-albums) (2000).\n\n# Track listing\nAll songs written by Richard Thompson except as noted.\n\n## 2004 Island CD reissue\n

\"Wishing\" ([Buddy Holly](https://bliptext.com/articles/buddy-holly), Bobby Montgomery)

\"I'm Turning Off a Memory\" ([Merle Haggard](https://bliptext.com/articles/merle-haggard))

\"A Heart Needs a Home\"

\"Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)\"

\"[It'll Be Me](https://bliptext.com/articles/it-ll-be-me-jerry-lee-lewis-song)\" ([Jack Clement](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-clement))

\n\nAll extra tracks are live and previously unreleased.\n\n# Personnel","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-25T22:36:48.518Z","updated_at":"2025-01-25T22:36:48.518Z","search_vector":"'album':3 'hokey':1 'pokey':2","search_content":" \n \n**Name:** Hokey Pokey \n**Type:** Studio album \n**Artist:** [Richard and Linda Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/richard-and-linda-thompson) \n**Released:** April 1975 \n**Recorded:** September – October 1974 \n**Studio:** Sound Techniques, [London](https://bliptext.com/articles/london) \n**Genre:** [Folk rock](https://bliptext.com/articles/folk-rock) \n**Length:** 36:02 (original) · 52:36 (2004 reissue) \n**Label:** [Island](https://bliptext.com/articles/island-records) \n**Producer:** [Richard Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/richard-thompson-musician) and [Simon Nicol](https://bliptext.com/articles/simon-nicol) \n**Prev Title:** [I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight](https://bliptext.com/articles/i-want-to-see-the-bright-lights-tonight) \n**Prev Year:** 1974 \n**Next Title:** [Pour Down Like Silver](https://bliptext.com/articles/pour-down-like-silver) \n**Next Year:** 1975 \n \n\n# \n**Hokey Pokey** is the second album by the British duo of singer [Linda Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/linda-thompson-singer) and singer/songwriter/guitarist [Richard Thompson](https://bliptext.com/articles/richard-thompson-musician).\nIt was recorded in the autumn of 1974 and released in the year 1975.\nMuch of the material on the Hokey Pokey album was written sometime before the album was recorded and even predates the Thompsons' conversion to Islam.\nIn terms of musical style Thompson's songwriting on this album reflects a number of British styles despite not being in the English folk-rock style of \"Bright Lights\": Music Hall, English hymns, traditional brass bands, pub sing-alongs and even the double entendres of [George Formby](https://bliptext.com/articles/george-formby-jr) are all discernible.\nIn many cases, Thompson juxtaposes an upbeat tune with a bleak lyric.\nIt was voted number 604 in the third edition of [Colin Larkin](https://bliptext.com/articles/colin-larkin)'s [All Time Top 1000 Albums](https://bliptext.com/articles/all-time-top-1000-albums) (2000).\n\n# Track listing\nAll songs written by Richard Thompson except as noted.\n\n## 2004 Island CD reissue\n \"Wishing\" ([Buddy Holly](https://bliptext.com/articles/buddy-holly), Bobby Montgomery) \n \"I'm Turning Off a Memory\" ([Merle Haggard](https://bliptext.com/articles/merle-haggard)) \n \"A Heart Needs a Home\" \n \"Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)\" \n \"[It'll Be Me](https://bliptext.com/articles/it-ll-be-me-jerry-lee-lewis-song)\" ([Jack Clement](https://bliptext.com/articles/jack-clement)) \n \nAll extra tracks are live and previously unreleased.\n\n# Personnel","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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