Their lyrics, by Roy Alfred (who later co-wrote the 1955 hit "(The) Rock and Roll Waltz"), were mildly sexually suggestive, and one teenager from Philadelphia said "That Hucklebuck was a very nasty dance".
Tekstovi Roya Alfreda ((koji je kasnije 1955. napisao uspješnicu "The Rock and Roll Waltz"), bili su blago seksualno sugestivni, a jedan tinejdžer iz Philadelphie rekao je "Taj 'Hucklebuck' je bio vrlo neugodan za ples".