Groovy (and the less common "groovie") is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s, springing out of African American culture. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "cool", "excellent", "fashionable", or "amazing", depending on context. The word originated in the jazz culture of the 1920s, in which it referred to the groove of a piece of music and the response felt by its listeners. It is a reference to the physical groove of a record in which the pick-up needle runs.
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- Groovy (and the less common "groovie") is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s, springing out of African American culture. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "cool", "excellent", "fashionable", or "amazing", depending on context. The word originated in the jazz culture of the 1920s, in which it referred to the groove of a piece of music and the response felt by its listeners. It is a reference to the physical groove of a record in which the pick-up needle runs. It first appeared in print in Really the Blues, the 1946 autobiography of the jazz saxophonist, Mezz Mezzrow. The term in its original usage had largely vanished from everyday use by 1980. Starting in the mid-1960s, variations of the word "Groovy" were used in the titles of several popular songs, including: "A Groovy Kind of Love," a song written in 1964 by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager, and first popularized a year later by The Mindbenders "We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'", the flip side of the 1965 hit single "The Sounds of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)", a 1966 song by Simon & Garfunkel "Somebody Groovy," a song from the 1966 debut album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears by The Mamas & the Papas "Groovin','" a 1967 song by the Young Rascals "Groovy Grubworm, a 1969 song by Harlow Wilcox "Groovy Situation", a 1970 hit song by Gene Chandler "Groovy Movies," a song by The Kinks released in 1973 on The Great Lost Kinks Album "Groovy Times," a 1979 song by The Clash The term was also part of the title of a TV program called Groovy Show, which ran from 1967–1970. It later made its way into the titles of albums, such as Groovy Decay, a 1982 album by Robyn Hitchcock, and Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, a 1990 album by Cabaret Voltaire. Examples of bands names include Groovy Aardvark from Canada, the Groovy Little Numbers from Scotland, and Groovy Rednecks from the USA.
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- Groovy (and the less common "groovie") is a slang colloquialism popular during the 1960s and 1970s, springing out of African American culture. It is roughly synonymous with words such as "cool", "excellent", "fashionable", or "amazing", depending on context. The word originated in the jazz culture of the 1920s, in which it referred to the groove of a piece of music and the response felt by its listeners. It is a reference to the physical groove of a record in which the pick-up needle runs.
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