Talk:Groovy

possibility the word came from the fact record albums had grooves?

(or more accurately 1 continuous groove) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.12.165.254 (talk • contribs)

Actually, most records have two grooves, one on each side :-) Ubcule (talk) 23:07, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Associated with African-American culture?

It may be true that the phrase originated in African-American culture, but isn't the phrase at least- if not more- "associated" in the mainstream public mind with hippie culture?

Maybe those in the US have a different perspective, but to me (from the UK) it always strikes me as something indelibly and stereotypically associated with the flower power era (which I was born after, so I certainly don't remember first hand). I've never been given the impression it was primarily culturally associated with black culture in the public mind, even if that was where it first came from. Ubcule (talk) 11:34, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

• I thought the same thing. I was a child during this era, and I didn't know that it came from black culture, as I had always heard it in the hippie and post-hippie dialogues. Should there be something in the article to expand the distribution of its use in the '60s and '70s? 14:01, 25 March 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.121.14.11 (talk)
• Ditto here in the US also. Also while I don't doubt the claims in this article of usage into the 1980s pretty much nobody used it after 1970. I went to high school 1971-1975 pretty much nobody used it, it sounded dated and corny when I heard it used in a movie or a TV show that had come out a few years earlier. Edkollin (talk) 05:55, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

In the groove

I understand that 'groovy' was a linguistic extension of the earlier phrase 'In the groove'. This was a jazz musician's description of when a player or group were playing to perfection, not able to put a foot wrong, especially in improvisation. Urselius (talk) 16:08, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

I agree. But "in the groove" actually meaning that you were performing like a record being played (needle being in the groove) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.116.87.110 (talk) 16:43, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Sources for entomological roots

I know most of the focus in this article is the use of the word in popular culture, but the claims made about its roots have no real backing. The first two sources link to pages that no longer exist, and the third source provides only a basic definition and no roots. I'm unfamiliar with the resources required to suss this out more clearly, but there has to be something better than that out there somewhere, right?

Rabdill (talk) 02:18, 26 March 2014 (UTC)