More and more "something" every time that song was recorded, sung or played!
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How much of the lyrics in popular music are genuine?
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Ah, f*&@ it. I'll go for what should be the thread-ender.
Herman of Herman's Hermits was not Henry the Eighth, he wasn't.
Herman of Herman's Hermits was not Henry the Eighth, he wasn't.
In fact Peter Noone has been married to the same woman for over 50 years.
Second verse, same as the first.
Was there, in fact, a disco duck? Did someone come down with a case of Pac Man Fever? (Was it contagious?) Was someone really wondering who let the dogs out?
Neither was Harry Chapin. That narrows it down...
On the other hand, when the Beatles declared "She loves you, yeah yeah yeah," some teen, somewhere, probably stared at his radio in disbelief and said "That's right! She DOES love me! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! How did they know?"
And then there's Kokomo. Sorry, couldn't resist.
Who knew an industrial small city in Indiana would inspire a hit song
It didn't. There's a community in Hawaii called Kokomo. Trouble is the song's lyrics say:
Off the Florida Keys
There's a place called Kokomo
So Mike Love (one of the Beach Boys, but only one of four writers of the song---the others include the late Terry Melcher, Doris Day's son, John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas and Scott ("San Francisco") McKenzie) lied.
And... "off the Florida Keys" reminds me that the only island at all nearby is Cuba. That's not a place that inspires thoughts of trick bottle juggling bartenders and Tom Cruise.
PS: The town of Kokomo, Indiana is named after a Native American chief.
Well, Aruba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahama---all get name-checked, so I guess we shouldn't be taking any of this too seriously.
And Bermuda is about 1,200 miles from Key West, so even that is as strange as saying Aruba, Jamaica, Tucson, Bahamas...
Could be a country cover version in there somewhere...
Starting with "Hazard", I guess.
Maybe not a hit song in modern times, but Kokomo, Indiana was the basis for a couple of blues songs. Madlyn Davis' Kokola Blues (1927) and Scrapper Blackwell's Kokomo Blues (1928) reference the city. The former included the following lyrics:
And it's hey, hey baby, baby don't you want to go
Back to that eleven light city, back to sweet Kokomo
Those lyrics were commandeered by Robert Johnson almost a decade later for his Sweet Home Chicago, which is an all-time classic. Johnson, BTW, never set foot in Chicago his entire life.
So a small industrial city in Indiana indirectly did inspire one of the greatest blues/blues-rock songs of all time.
"Lubbock, Savannah, come on sweet Louanna..."
I just learned something new and interesting.So a small industrial city in Indiana indirectly did inspire one of the greatest blues/blues-rock songs of all time.
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