 I feel mighty lovey-dovey Let me be your new patootie I'll be just as sweet as sweet can be Oh, that's where the word patootie came from, huh? Well, one of the sources anyway. From the early 50s, the leading female country singer in America of that era, Kitty Wells with Hey Joe. So she was singing a song for Joe. It's good for her. She was Loretta Lynn before Loretta. What year was that?