LOUIS ARMSTRONG – "JEEPERS CREEPERS" ('Going Places', 1938)
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'Going Places' is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Ray Enright. Dick Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales and gets entangled in his lies.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Jeepers Creepers", premiered in this movie by Louis Armstrong who appears in the part of Gabriel, the trainer of a race horse named Jeepers Creepers. The horse is so wild that can only be soothed enough to let someone ride him only when Gabriel plays the song "Jeepers Creepers" on his trumpet or sings it to him. Gabriel wrote the song specifically for the horse.
The phrase "jeepers creepers", a slang expression and minced oath euphemism for Jesus Christ, predates both the song and the film.
In 1988, "Peek-A-Boo", the first single from Siouxsie and The Banshees's ninth studio album PEEPSHOW, included parts of the lyrics of "Jeepers Creepers".
SIOUXSIE: "The lyrics are written from the point of view of someone who works in a peepshow. It's really a song about my disgust at the amount of soft pornography, things like Page Three girls and pervy ads on TV, that are being forced on people at the moment. Some of the words in the chorus are taken from a song by Louis Armstrong called 'Golly Jeepers' but we’ve changed them a bit. He sang it to a cow in a film, if I remember correctly." (Source: Smash Hits, 27 July -09 August 1988, p. 63).
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Jeepers Creepers", premiered in this movie by Louis Armstrong who appears in the part of Gabriel, the trainer of a race horse named Jeepers Creepers. The horse is so wild that can only be soothed enough to let someone ride him only when Gabriel plays the song "Jeepers Creepers" on his trumpet or sings it to him. Gabriel wrote the song specifically for the horse.
The phrase "jeepers creepers", a slang expression and minced oath euphemism for Jesus Christ, predates both the song and the film.
In 1988, "Peek-A-Boo", the first single from Siouxsie and The Banshees's ninth studio album PEEPSHOW, included parts of the lyrics of "Jeepers Creepers".
SIOUXSIE: "The lyrics are written from the point of view of someone who works in a peepshow. It's really a song about my disgust at the amount of soft pornography, things like Page Three girls and pervy ads on TV, that are being forced on people at the moment. Some of the words in the chorus are taken from a song by Louis Armstrong called 'Golly Jeepers' but we’ve changed them a bit. He sang it to a cow in a film, if I remember correctly." (Source: Smash Hits, 27 July -09 August 1988, p. 63).