God bless gibberish. Pop music often works best when it's most meaningless, when it reaches for a level of pure euphoric silliness. The word "boogie" isn't quite gibberish; it has a whole etymology.
*When Janice-Marie Johnson said “Listen to my bass here” on A Taste of Honey’s “Boogie Oogie Oogie,” she really meant her bass. The Los Angeles native and daughter of a musician father began singing ...