The bottom bit was added onto the Wikipedia info. Made me laugh.
The Wiki bit.....
Larry LaPrise at one point held the U.S. copyright for the song "Do The Hokey Cokey". LaPrise was born in Detroit, Michigan. He wrote "Do The Hokey Cokey" in the early 1940s for the après-ski crowd at a club in Sun Valley, Idaho. The song was first recorded by his group the Ram Trio in 1948.
Not the Wiki bit.......
When he died in 1996 aged 84, the Funeral Director told the family that everything went fine until they tried to put him in the coffin. They put his left leg in and that's when the trouble started.