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Rick Derringer: The Irony of the Hootchie Koo

Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1974

NEW YORK — "I never expected 'Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo' to do so well commercially," said Rick Derringer, the single's writer as well as performer. "It's always nice to hear a song make it on Top 40 radio that you don't expect to hear on that medium."

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