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Schroeder was a moniker I used for a while as a classical DJ who sometimes had more to talk about than just classical music, but that didn’t always jibe well with the listeners, so I started blogging instead.

Now what’s this jock-a-mo fee-na-nay thing?

BackTalk with James “Sugar Boy” Crawford

Interviewer: How did you construct ‘Jock-A-Mo?’

Crawford: 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….

Interviewer: Listeners wonder what ‘Jock-A-Mo’ means. Some music scholars say it translates in Mardi Gras Indian lingo as ‘Kiss my ass,’ and I’ve read where some think Jock-A-Mo was a court jester. What does it mean?

Crawford: I really don’t know. (laughs)

Iko Iko - lyrics by “Jockamo” James Crawford

Iko Iko history

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