Singer-songwriter Jenny Edgren performs the Hokey Pokey, with audience participation, while strumming on a charngo, Aug. 3, 2016, at the Spokane Public Library Shadle Branch. The instrument was ...

I got an e-mail from a friend last week informing me that Larry LaPrise, the lyricist who wrote "The Hokey Pokey," has died. This bit of intelligence arrived on my desktop about nine years late — a ...