Hello boys,
here i found this on another site. thought it might help*smile*

Steve, The answer comes from the horse's mouth, the man who wrote and recorded the song (originally entitled 'Jock-A-Mo') in 1953, James 'Sugar Boy' Crawford, in a 2002 interview (see http://www.offbeat.com/obfebruary2002/backtalk.html):
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"It came from two Indian chants that I put music to. 'Iko Iko' was like a victory chant that the Indians would shout. 'Jock-A-Mo' was a chant that was called when the Indians went into battle. I just put them together and made a song out of them. Really it was just like 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy.' That was a phrase everybody in New Orleans used. Lloyd Price just added music to it and it became a hit. I was just trying to write a catchy song. Leonard Chess [president of Chess & Checker Records, then Sugar Boy's label] contacted me and arranged for me to go to Cosimo's [J & M Studio] and record it. That was in [November] 1953."

Ken G – April 6, 2004

Reply from Ken Greenwald (Fort Collins, CO - U.S.A.)