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Blue Swede: Grunting a Feeling

Harold Bronson, Rolling Stone, 4 July 1974

LOS ANGELES – Oohka Chucka! Oohka Oohka Oohka Chucka! – a jungle war cry gives way suddenly to a hardy, supper-club crooner romanticizing an old MOR-ish B.J. Thomas hit. That's ‘Hooked on a Feeling’, recently the Number One single by a group called Blue Swede.

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