Goody Goody
"Goody Goody" is a 1936 popular song composed by Matty Malneck, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra (with vocalist Helen Ward) recorded the song. Frankie Lymon performed it live on television on several occasions, including in 1957 on The Ted Steele Show. He also had a hit with his recording of the song in the UK, reaching #24 that year, as well as #20 in the United States. It was billed as a recording with his group The Teenagers, but was in fact a solo recording.
The song was performed by 'Wayne & Wanda' in an episode of The Muppet Show.
Chicago recorded the song on its 1995 big band album Night and Day. Their version was arranged and featured lead vocals by Bill Champlin.
A recording by The BBC Dance Orchestra was featured in the film The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007).
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Famous quotes containing the word goody:
“It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)