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"Kokomo" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from the 1988 film Cocktail and album Still Cruisin'. Written by John Phillips, Scott McKenzie, Mike Love, and Terry Melcher, the song was released as a single in July 1988 by Elektra Records and became a number one hit in the US and Australia. It was the band's first original top-20 ...
"Asia Minor" is a 1961 instrumental recording by Jimmy Wisner (operating under the name Kokomo so as to not alienate his jazz fans). [2] It is a rock and roll adaptation of Edvard Grieg 's " Piano Concerto in A Minor ", using shellac on the hammers of a cheap piano so as to induce a honky-tonk sound. [ 3 ]
In 2002, a group of Norwegian peacekeepers in Kosovo (calling themselves the "Shiptare Boys" [3]) parodied the music video for "Kokomo," using Rivers' song with their own hand-held video camera footage. In the parody, the soldiers imitate dance moves and scenes from the original music video in desolate war-torn areas around Kosovo.
So as not to alienate his jazz fans, he released the tune, titled "Asia Minor", under the name Kokomo; he was turned down by 10 labels and had to release the track on his own label Future Records. [1] The song became a hit, reaching #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, [3] and #35 on the UK Singles Chart [4] despite having been banned by the BBC. [1]
"Kokomo" appeared on Blender ' s list of the 50 worst songs [98] and Dallas Observer ' s list of the ten worst songs by great artists. [99] MEL Magazine named it the worst summer song, and wrote that "a lot of us have taken immense delight in hating this 1988 smash". [100] NME named the "Kokomo" music video one of the worst ever. [101]
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youtube-dl is a free and open source software tool for downloading video and audio from YouTube [3] and over 1,000 other video hosting websites. [4] It is released under the Unlicense software license. [5] As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. [6]
Performing under the name Gene and Eunice, in the Fall of 1954 Forrest and Levy made the first recording of the song, [11] backed by Jonesy's Combo (which included saxophonist Brother William Woodman's band), [14] [15] in the studio in the basement of veteran musician Jake Porter's home, and released in November 1954 on his Combo label (Combo 64) as their first single.