The Real McCoy may refer to:

Film and television

* ''The Real McCoy'' (film), a 1993 film starring Kim Basinger *''The Real McCoy'', a 1999 film starring

Andy McCoy Antti Hulkko (born 11 October 1962), better known as Andy McCoy, is a Finnish musician. He is best known for his role as the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the rock band Hanoi Rocks, but has also played with Iggy Pop and a variety of oth ...

* ''The Real McCoy'' (TV series), a 1991–1996 British comedy television series *''

The Real McCoys ''The Real McCoys'' is an American situation comedy starring Walter Brennan, Richard Crenna, and Kathleen Nolan. Co-produced by Danny Thomas's Marterto Productions in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus's Westgate Company, it ...

'', a 1957–1962 American television series starring Walter Brennan and Richard Crenna that aired on CBS

Music

Real McCoy (band) Real McCoy is a German Eurodance and pop music project best known for hit singles "Another Night (Real McCoy song), Another Night", "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)", "Run Away (Real McCoy song), Run Away", "Love & Devotion", "Come and Get Your ...

, a Eurodance group popular in the 1990s *The Real McCoy, 1960s–70s era

Irish showband The Irish showband was a dance band format popular in Ireland from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. The showband was based on the internationally popular six- or seven-piece dance band. The band's basic repertoire included standard dance numbers and ...

Albums

*''The Real McCoy'', album by

Charlie McCoy Charles Ray McCoy (born March 28, 1941) is a Grammy-winning American session musician, harmonica player, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Based in Nashville, McCoy's playing is heard on r ...

* The Real McCoy (Van McCoy album), 1976 * ''The Real McCoy'' (McCoy Tyner album), 1967

Songs

*"The Real McCoy", a 1988 song by Scottish rock band

The Silencers ''The Silencers'' is the title of a 1962 spy novel by Donald Hamilton, the fourth in a series of books featuring assassin Matt Helm. Plot summary When a female agent in Mexico is killed before Helm can complete his mission to extract her, he f ...

*"The Real McCoy", a 2012 song by

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Sam Duckworth (born 1986) is an English musician who performs as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. He is also sometimes referred to as ''Get Cape'', ''Cape'', ''GCWCF'' and ''Slam Dunkworth'' (the latter title apparently first coined by Emmy the Great ...

*"The Real McCoy", a 1970s track by Klaus Schulze released in the box set ''

Historic Edition ''Historic Edition'' is a limited edition 10-disc CD box set released by Klaus Schulze in 1995 containing unreleased archival recordings. This set was wholly included in Schulze's 50-disc CD box set '' The Ultimate Edition'' released in 2000 (disc ...

Other uses

The real McCoy "The real McCoy" is an idiom and metaphor used in much of the English-speaking world to mean "the real thing" or "the genuine article", e.g. "he's the real McCoy". The phrase has been the subject of numerous false etymologies. History The phr ...

, a phrase meaning "the real thing" or "the genuine article" *

McCoy's (crisp) McCoy's is a brand of crinkle-cut crisps made in the United Kingdom by KP Snacks. It was first produced in 1985 and is marketed under the slogan "The Real McCoy's – Accept No Imitations" ("Man Crisps" in current advertising), exploiting the Sc ...

, a brand of potato chips marketed under the slogan "The Real McCoy" *

Dundas Real McCoys The Dundas Real McCoys are a Canadian senior ice hockey team based in Dundas, Ontario. They play in the Ontario Hockey Association's Major League Hockey. The Real McCoys have won two National Championships, winning the 1986 Hardy Cup as Cana ...

, a hockey team in Dundas, Ontario *''The Real McCoy'' (book), a 2003 novel by American writer

Darin Strauss Darin Strauss is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Strauss's 2011 book ''Half a Life (memoir), Half a ...

, based on the life of the boxer Charles "Kid" McCoy *''The Real McCoy'' (play) a 2006 stage play by Canadian playwright Andrew Moodie based on the life of inventor

Elijah McCoy Elijah J. McCoy (May 2, 1844 – October 10, 1929) was a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines. Born free on the Ontario shore of Lake Erie to parents who fled enslavem ...

* ''Real McCoy'' (ferry), a ferryboat that operated for 63 years from Rio Vista, California {{DEFAULTSORT:Real McCoy, The