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"Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" was a 1938 jazz song, originally written and performed by Slim Gaillard. The song was originally called "Flat Foot Floozie", with "floy-floy" being slang for a venereal disease. The word "floozie" was changed to "floogie" to allow it be to played on the radio.[citation needed] The title for the 1938 The Three Stooges film, Flat Foot Stooges, is a pun on this song's title.

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  • "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" was a 1938 jazz song, originally written and performed by Slim Gaillard. The song was originally called "Flat Foot Floozie", with "floy-floy" being slang for a venereal disease. The word "floozie" was changed to "floogie" to allow it be to played on the radio.[citation needed] The title for the 1938 The Three Stooges film, Flat Foot Stooges, is a pun on this song's title.
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  • "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" was a 1938 jazz song, originally written and performed by Slim Gaillard. The song was originally called "Flat Foot Floozie", with "floy-floy" being slang for a venereal disease. The word "floozie" was changed to "floogie" to allow it be to played on the radio.[citation needed] It is most well known in the version by Louis Armstrong and The Mills Brothers, recorded in New York City on June 10, 1938 and released by Decca Records as catalog number 1876; and the version by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, which made the song a number one hit. That version was recorded in New York City on May 31, 1938 and released by Victor Records as catalog number 25781. The song has been covered by musicians as diverse as Johnny and Jones (1938), Nina Hagen, Wingy Manone, Django Reinhardt, Count Basie, Fats Waller and Michael Jackson. The title for the 1938 The Three Stooges film, Flat Foot Stooges, is a pun on this song's title. The score of this record was included with the 1938 Westinghouse Time Capsule, along with the scores to only two other pieces: Finlandia by Jean Sibelius and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa.
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