[1][4] Historian Eve Golden stated that the song is "a popular standard from the second-wave of ragtime tunes".
[6] First published and performed in 1912, "Hitchy-Koo" was a staple of the vaudeville repertoire in the 1910s and 1920s, enjoying popularity in both American and British theatres.
[9] The song was first introduced to the United Kingdom by the American Ragtime Octette (ARO) at the Hippodrome in London in 1912.
was the forerunner of many nonsense songs of the twentieth century suspected of being indecently suggestive.
"[14] There were 4 Hitchy-Koo revues produced by and starring Raymond Hitchcock that ran on Broadway: The Hitchy-Koo of 1922 began tryouts on October 10, 1922 at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia, but ran for less than two weeks.