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"Hokum Boys" was the billing (or part of the billing) of multiple jazz bands (typically, just groups of session musicians) active in 1920s and 1930s. The
Hokum_Boys
Type of song in American blues
Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, sexual innuendos.
Hokum
American classic female blues singer
pianist was Judson Brown. She was a one-time vocalist for the Famous Hokum Boys in 1930 and toured and recorded as a backing vocalist for other blues
Mozelle_Alderson
American blues song and jazz standard
Blues" concert. Other notable recordings include (among hundreds): The Hokum Boys - "Gambler's Blues" (1929) Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, with Hot Lips
St._James_Infirmary_Blues
American blues and hokum musician (1903–1981)
two recorded almost 90 sides, sometimes as the Hokum Boys or, with Frankie Jaxon, as Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band. In 1928 and 1929, besides making their
Tampa_Red
American singer
billed as the Hokum Boys. Their track, written by Dorsey, "I Had to Give Up Gym" was an early dirty blues song, sometimes described as hokum. His groups
Ikey_Robinson
Irish film and television editor (born 1981)
include the feature films Bad Day for the Cut (2017), Boys from County Hell (2020), Oddity (2024), and Hokum (2026). He is a member of British Film Editors,
Brian_Philip_Davis
American jazz pianist (1906–1937)
Roberts and Alex Robinson, recorded for Paramount Records billed as the Hokum Boys. Later that year, Ikey Robinson recorded for OKeh Records, both with Jimmy
Alex_Hill_(musician)
Blues music about taboo subjects
recorded by Blue Lu Barker and Louis Armstrong among others. Dirty rap Hokum "Dirty Blues | Music Highlights". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-05-07. "Press
Dirty_blues
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (1893?1903?–1958)
any other bluesman before or since, including in his repertoire ragtime, hokum, country blues, urban blues, jazz-tinged songs, folk songs and spirituals
Big_Bill_Broonzy
1928 blues song by Tampa Red and Georgia Tom
"It's Tight Like That" is a hokum or dirty blues song, recorded by Tampa Red and Georgia Tom on October 24, 1928. Vocalion Records issued it on the then
It's_Tight_Like_That
American blues and gospel musician and composer (1899–1993)
Famous Hokum Boys", the duo found great success together, eventually collaborating on 60 songs between 1928 and 1932, and coining the term "Hokum" to describe
Thomas_A._Dorsey
Blues" (2:47) (recorded November 16, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois) The Hokum Boys - "Gin Mill Blues" (3:27) (recorded November 16, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois)
Roots 'n Blues: The Retrospective 1925–1950
Roots_'n_Blues:_The_Retrospective_1925–1950
Film award
Boys led all television nominations with five. The Furious, Obsession, Project Hail Mary and Superman led all films with two wins each while The Boys
6th Critics' Choice Super Awards
6th_Critics'_Choice_Super_Awards
Record label
Hamilton Green Joe Green Mal Hallett Mike Hanapi Annette Hanshaw Joe Haymes Hokum Boys Hoosier Hot Shots Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon Gene Kardos Ed Kirkeby Lead
Banner_Records
American songwriter
Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved April 1, 2021. "The Complete Hokum Boys & Bob Robinson 1935-1937 in Chronological Order Album". Mahlzeit.it. Retrieved
Frank_"Springback"_James
Blues standard popularized by Albert King
"Crosscut Saw", or "Cross Cut Saw Blues" as it was first called, is a hokum-style song "that must have belonged to the general repertoire of the Delta
Crosscut_Saw_(song)
2005 novel by Cormac McCarthy
fiction writer Walter Kirn suggests that the novel's plot is "sinister high hokum", but writes admiringly of the prose, describing the author as "a whiz with
No Country for Old Men (novel)
No_Country_for_Old_Men_(novel)
Song by British bandleader and clarinetist Harry Roy
recorded by the British bandleader and clarinetist Harry Roy and His Bat Club Boys. The lyrics play on the two meanings of the word pussy (i.e. cat/female genitalia)
My_Girl's_Pussy
1929 single by James "Stump" Johnson
"The Duck Yas-Yas-Yas" or "The Duck's Yas Yas Yas" is a hokum jazz-blues song, originally recorded by James "Stump" Johnson, but the most well known version
The_Duck_Yas-Yas-Yas
Disgusting. Retrieved October 15, 2025. DiVincenzo, Alex (December 2, 2025). "'Hokum' – Neon Sets May Release Date for Adam Scott Horror Movie from 'Oddity'
List of American films of 2026
List_of_American_films_of_2026
Song most notably performed by Chuck Berry in 1972
General claiming that "one teacher told us of how she found a class of small boys with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation
My_Ding-a-Ling
American singer
The Dozens. The expanded line-up of Franklin, Harpe, and Usilton released Hokum Blues the following year, and appeared on cable television for the Arlington
Rick_Franklin
2016 American mystery drama television series
an interesting and compelling story, writing that "The OA may be utter hokum, but you'll still be hooked." Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter
The_OA
Edition of film and television festival
Mexico Grind Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, and Chelsea Stardust United States Hokum Damian McCarthy United States, Ireland Imposters Caleb J. Phillips United
2026 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival
2026_South_by_Southwest_Film_&_TV_Festival
1940 play written by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
and recommended it to her boss, producer Hal B. Wallis, as "sophisticated hokum". Warner Bros. gave the script for adaptation first to screenwriter Casey
Everybody_Comes_to_Rick's
Traditional blues song
adapted some of the lyrics for "Do You Like Worms", a track from the Beach Boys' unreleased 1967 album SMiLE, changing it to "bicycle rider, just see what
See_See_Rider
1984 film by Garry Marshall
filled with banal chatter about "dreams" and ends with TV-style happy-family hokum [...]. But it also has some snappy sitcom dialogue." He also wrote that
The_Flamingo_Kid
Film award
Association. June 11, 2025. Retrieved August 18, 2025. "'Superman' & 'The Boys' Lead Nominees For Critics Choice Super Awards". Deadline Hollywood. July
Critics' Choice Super Award for Best Actor in a Horror Movie
Critics'_Choice_Super_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Horror_Movie
1940 film by William K. Howard, Lloyd Bacon
wrote: "Very good! It is the first football picture produced without any 'hokum'; it shows how teams are developed and what the game means to both players
Knute_Rockne,_All_American
Classical Athenian tragedy by Sophocles
February 2026. "Ain't No Tragedy Like An Ancient Greek Tragedy". Veritable Hokum. Retrieved 25 February 2026. Mambrol, Nasrullah (27 July 2020). "Analysis
Oedipus_Rex
American country singer (born 1956)
man's hillbilly". Evening Standard. p. 25. Retrieved September 4, 2022. "Hokum or Yoakam?". Dallas Observer. April 13, 2006. Retrieved September 3, 2022
Dwight_Yoakam
School in Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Retrieved 11 May 2019. Carlton, Mike (29 November 1997). "Heaven-sent hokum". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 July 2017.[permanent dead link]
De_La_Salle_College_Ashfield
British-Canadian actor
irrepressible Ian D. Clark waiting in the wings, ready to unleash his own brand of hokum." In 2020, Clark was at the Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto, appearing in Jack
Ian_D._Clark_(actor)
1939 film by Richard Thorpe
Huckleberry" and called it an "average, workmanlike piece of cinematic hokum" that "affords little, if any, insight into the realistic boyhood world
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939 film)
The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_(1939_film)
American actor (1942–2023)
Hinckley, David (October 17, 2008). "'Ladies of the House' is homey Hallmark hokum". New York Daily News. Carson, Blackwelder. "Samuel L. Jackson, Gabrielle
Richard_Roundtree
Horror film festival
Obsession (Curry Barker, US, 2025) Leviticus (Adrian Chiarella, US, 2026) Hokum (Damian McCarthy, US, 2026) Goody Goody (Raymond Creamer, US, 2026) Trauma
Overlook_Film_Festival
1999 film by the Wachowskis
pseudo-spiritual hokum, along with the over-ramped onslaught of special effects—some of them quite amazing—will hold 14-year-old boys in rapture, not to
The_Matrix
British actress (1929–1993)
given a credit in the film for her perfume. Dubbed "marshmallow-weight hokum" by Variety upon its release in April, the film was "uniformly panned" but
Audrey_Hepburn
1992 Australian film
interesting and its players attractive, Turtle Beach is so full of melodramatic hokum that it never rises above superficial soap opera... [The film] superficially
Turtle_Beach_(film)
Indian actor and filmmaker (born 1957)
over-the-top, stridently nationalistic but undeniably entertaining slice of hokum." At this juncture in his career, Deol avoided traditional action films
Sunny_Deol
1970 British film by Basil Dearden
particular cup of ectoplasm." The Observer called it "an unmitigated piece of hokum that looks and sounds more like Pinewood 1948 than Elstree 1970." Sight
The_Man_Who_Haunted_Himself
British video game company
Enemy Engaged: Apache vs Havoc Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche vs. KA-52 Hokum Enemy Zero (PC) FlatOut series Flying Corps Gold Ford Racing Ford Racing
Empire_Interactive
Band employing a jug player
Jug bands from the Memphis area were more firmly rooted in country blues, hokum, and earlier African-American music traditions. Will Shade's Memphis Jug
Jug_band
Percussion using voice
both black and white, religious songs, blues, ragtime, vaudeville, and hokum. Examples include the Appalachian technique of eefing and the blues song
Beatboxing
1942 film by Michael Curtiz
who read the play, Stephen Karnot, called it (approvingly) "sophisticated hokum" and story editor Irene Diamond, who had discovered the script on a trip
Casablanca_(film)
19th- and 20th-century American form of musical theater
Brothers and David and Jerry Zucker. The varied structure of songs, gags, "hokum" and dramatic pieces continued into vaudeville, variety shows, and to modern
Minstrel_show
Pencil Mania (1932) Magic Mummy (1933) Happy Hoboes (1933) Hook and Ladder Hokum (1933) Goofy Goat (1931) The Snowman (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1933) Every
List of animated films in the public domain in the United States
List_of_animated_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States
hanging from the back, confirming Jackie and Daniel's wedding happy ending. Hokum Lingering supernatural dread, haunted-hotel atmosphere, unresolved unease
List of films with post-credits scenes (2020s)
List_of_films_with_post-credits_scenes_(2020s)
1938 British film
Renter wrote: "No subtleties, but a broad story done with a fair amount of hokum, and a warm homely treatment which should please industrial audiences.
Lassie_from_Lancashire
hoakiest, hoak 2. Sentimental material in a film; alt spelling of hokey; see hokum Example flyers made from San Francisco to Hawaii. It is just a hoak meller
Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States
Glossary_of_early_twentieth_century_slang_in_the_United_States
Australian musician and composer
(1977) (John McDonald) [as Producer] "Francis Butler" (1978) [as Producer] "Hokum Ensemble" (1978) [as Producer] "Rod Boucher" (1980) [as Producer] "Crosstalk"
Chris_Neal_(screen_composer)
1934–1977 American comic strip by Al Capp
parents. Capp derived the surname "Yokum" as a combination of "yokel" and "hokum". Abner represents the archetype of a Candide — a paragon of innocence in
Li'l_Abner
1990 television film directed by Harry Winer
Savage did not. In fact, he keeps the film from washing away in a sea of hokum". Mike Duffy of Knight-Ridder Newspapers was similarly impressed with Savage's
When_You_Remember_Me
UK musical group
relatively popular and helped launched the careers of The Coral, The Zutons, The Hokum Clones, The Stands, Tramp Attack and the band themselves. The club night
The_Bandits_(band)
Etymology of the term "jazz"
"put in jaz" meant to accelerate or add low comedy, while "jazbo" meant "hokum". Bandleader Art Hickman said "jazz" was named for the effervescent springs
Jazz_(word)
1964 U.S. political drama film
even-handedness of its vision." Critic John Simon described The Best Man as "impure hokum". Vidal, Gore, United States: Essays 1952–1992, p. 852. Goodman, William
The_Best_Man_(1964_film)
Solitary Refinement 1965 : Milton the Monster (TV series) 1965 : Tally Hokum 1965 : The Outside Dope 1966 : Two by Two 1966 : Trick or Cheat 1966 : Throne
Winston_Sharples_filmography
1956 British film
bizarre moment." Kine Weekly wrote: "The picture, probably the biggest bit of hokum ever to hit the screen, leaves nothing to chance and even less to the imagination
Zarak
supernatural origin created by horror writer Clive Barker. Home to Ectokid, Hokum & Hex, Hyperkind, and Saint Sinner. Further titles that were cancelled would
List of fictional universes in animation and comics
List_of_fictional_universes_in_animation_and_comics
The Story of George Washington United States Traditional Animation Tally-Hokum United States Traditional Animation Three Little Woodpeckers United States
List of animated short films of the 1960s
List_of_animated_short_films_of_the_1960s
1933 film by Cecil B. DeMille
recommend that Steve's speech, 'And you're going to try him without any bunk or hokum,' should be modified to something less rough, along the line of 'Try him
This_Day_and_Age_(film)
Gibraltar-born Australian actress, singer, writer and voice artist
from The Pack of Women cabaret, stage show. Her backing band, the Go Go Boys, comprised Jo Jo Zep's associates from the Black Sorrows, Jeff Burstin on
Jane_Clifton
British television series (1971–1972)
The Persuaders! "must have been the best bad series ever made... absolute hokum". However, BBC Radio 5 presenter Dave Aldridge later asked: "Was seventies
The_Persuaders!
Musical artist
Norridge Mayhams and His Barbecue Boys. They included gospel tracks such as "Crying Holy Unto The Lord" alongside hokum such as "Let's Get Drunk and Truck"
Norridge_Mayhams
Series of animated short films (1921-1934)
Foster 512 College Capers March 15, 1931 John Foster & Harry Bailey 513 Old Hokum Bucket March 29, 1931 John Foster & Mannie Davis 514 Cinderella Blues April
Aesop's_Fables_(film_series)
American artist (1929–2022)
newspapers in the Pottsville, Schuylkill County, area. He drew the cartoon "Amos Hokum" for the Afro-American newspaper in Baltimore starting in 1923 and wrote
Howard_N._Watson
A. Dorsey), recorded on October 24, 1928, was a highly successful early hokum record, which combined bawdy rural humor with sophisticated musical technique
Origins_of_rock_and_roll
Public school in Oak Park, Illinois, US
Hemingway, and collaborated on what is believed to be Hemingway's first play, Hokum Carol Shields, author (Larry's Party, Unless) who won the 1995 Pulitzer
Oak Park and River Forest High School
Oak_Park_and_River_Forest_High_School
American pop duo
to intentionally over-the-top extremes, then undercutting all the sci-fi hokum with flashes of genuine humanity." Sol!d Pop also displayed their persistent
Hyperbubble
de Héroes (2016) Juego de Niños (1995) Juego peligroso (1967) Jug Band Hokum (2015) Jug Face (2013) Jugaadi Dot Com (2015) Jugaari (2010) Le Juge Fayard
List_of_films:_J–K
The Ruckus (2013) Hoichoi Unlimited (2018) Hoje (2011) Hok Kolorob (2026) Hokum (2026) Hokuriku Proxy War (1977) Hokus Pokus (1949) Hola Venky! (2014) The
List_of_films:_H
(Broadcaster: Broadcast syndication) Dick DeBartolo Mort Drucker 107 December 1966 Hokum's Heroes / Hochman's Heroes Hogan's Heroes (September 1965 – March 1971)
List of television show spoofs in Mad
List_of_television_show_spoofs_in_Mad
American film director (1913–1972)
ISBN 978-0-8195-7241-7. Retrieved March 6, 2023. Sigall, Martha (2005). "The Boys of Termite Terrace". Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden
Frank_Tashlin
Former theme park in northwest Arkansas
Times, January 4, 1967. Brown, Rodger (1993). "Dogpatch USA: The Road to Hokum". Southern Changes. Vol. 15, no. 3. pp. 18–26. Archived from the original
Dogpatch_USA
US comedy drama miniseries
made highly watchable by an excellent cast that finds the human among the hokum." Alan Sepinwall of HitFix stated: "with a cast this good, and with so many
Political Animals (miniseries)
Political_Animals_(miniseries)
American politician (born 1956)
by humans. She has claimed that global warming is "all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax" and has been called "one of the GOP's loudest global warming skeptics
Michele_Bachmann
Broadway theater in Manhattan, New York
Glenn Hunter: Star of 'Seventeen' Has Difficulty in New Scenes, but Davis Hokum Helps Glenn Hanter". New York Herald Tribune. p. 22. ProQuest 1111951174
Neil_Simon_Theatre
Music in the United States
especially influential. Tampa Red, with Thomas A. Dorsey, kickstarts the hokum craze with "Tight Like That". The Army Music School is closed, and not replaced
Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949)
Timeline_of_music_in_the_United_States_(1920–1949)
American director, producer, and actor
his temper..." Thomas, 1974 p. 146-148: "...full of plot crevices...and hokum..." "When Dick Cavett Shared Carnegie Hall With Groucho". NPR.org. May 6
Sam_Wood
1840 political speech by Charles Ogle
Spoon Oration in The President's House, by Margaret Truman "Hurrah and Hokum" Whistlestop podcast, by John Dickerson American Heritage magazine discussion
Gold_Spoon_Oration
1922 film
Exhibitors Herald. March 3, 1923. p. 1191. "Producer Says Best Films are Full of Hokum". The Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, Illinois). May 2, 1932. p. 15. Retrieved
The_Third_Alarm_(1922_film)
Krakatoa (1933) Johnny Walker Novelties (1932) – one-reel series “Great Hokum Mystery” and “Do You Remember?” Juvenile Comedies (1922–1929) – two-reelers
List of American live-action shorts
List_of_American_live-action_shorts
1927 play by James Gleason
spite of the in-jokes, there was "little real vaudeville atmosphere, only a hokum story shot through with wise patter apropos of the vaudeville racket" according
The Shannons of Broadway (play)
The_Shannons_of_Broadway_(play)
slavery in Texas History of slavery in Virginia Hi-top fade Hitsville U.S.A. Hokum Hollywood Black Film Festival Hollywood Shuffle Home Girls The Homesteader
Index of articles related to African Americans
Index_of_articles_related_to_African_Americans
American baseball film
Morehouse called the movie "absolutely the worst flicker I ever saw, pure hokum."[unreliable source?] No prints of this film are known to survive. List
Somewhere_in_Georgia
Famous Secret Agent, Tornado Tom, What Price Glory) Clive Barker – (Ectokid, Hokum & Hex, Hyperkind, Saint Sinner) Les Barton – (Billy Bunter) Leo Baxendale
List_of_comics_creators
16, 1914 Evvensen, Bruce J. (1996). When Dempsey Fought Tunney: Heroes, Hokum, and Storytelling in the Jazz Age. Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 32. ISBN 9780870499180
John_J._"Bald_Jack"_Ryan
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