The line from the Zombies song is "What's your name?/Who's
your daddy?"
Granted there's a phononetic similarity with Hoosier, but I
doubt Rod
Argent (the songwriter) spent a great deal of time in
Indiana. The term,
by the way, has several folklore origins attached to it. The
most
popular is that the word started as "Who's there?" and was
used when
someone knocked on the door. Dan Quayle became quite upset by
a
dictionary definition of a Hoosier as an "ignorant rustic."
As an
Easterner now living in Indiana, I can't say the indigenous
population
has done an exceptional job of disproving the
dictionary.
Also, sorry for going so far off topic, but the Zombies are
one of my
favorite '60s groups.
Andy
>----------
>From: James
Stephenson[SMTP:James_E_Stephenson@umail.umd.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 7:59 AM
>To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: doing crank
>
>
>Ed queried:
>
>> BTW, who or what are 'hoosiers'?
>
>People from Indiana, the Hoosier state. Surely a man
as familiar with
>rock'n'roll as you remember the old Zombies song "Time
of the Season,"
>containing the line "What's your name, hoosier daddy?"
;-)
>--
>James Stephenson
>Rare Books & Special Collections
Cataloger
>McKeldin Library
>University of Maryland
>College Park, MD 20742
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