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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.
The lyrics are largely on the lost dairy cow theme: She's a full-blood Jersey, I'm going to tell you boys the way I know People just screamin' for my milk cow, I don't care where my Jersey go [2] with one hint at a lost lover: Say my bed is lonesome my pillow now it sure won't do I wake up out of the midnight I really have those milk cow blues [2]
"Kosovo" is a parody of the Beach Boys hit song "Kokomo". [1] It was produced in 1999 by Seattle radio comedian / radio personality Bob Rivers . The song gained notoriety in 2005 after a music video that Norwegian soldiers filmed while serving as peacekeepers in Kosovo was posted online.
"Kokomo" † Mike Love Scott McKenzie Terry Melcher John Phillips 1988 Still Cruisin ' 1988 "Kona Coast" Al Jardine Mike Love 1977 M.I.U. Album: 1978 "Lady" (originally credited to Dennis Wilson & Rumbo [3] [nb 4]) Dennis Wilson 1970 Non-album single 1970 "Lady Liberty" Al Jardine Ron Altbach c. 1986: Non-album single 1986 "Lady Lynda" † Al ...
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Riding on the coattails of "Kokomo", Still Cruisin ' went gold in the US and Austria [10] and gave the Beach Boys their best chart showing since 1976. During Capitol 's Beach Boys re-issue campaign in 2000 and 2001 however, Still Cruisin ' was left behind and allowed to go out of print, and it has remained out of print ever since.
The least known of the three, this version by Kokomo, a British-soul group, includes delicately mixed congas with a tempo similar to New Birth's and is perhaps, musically, the funkiest of the three. This version peaked at #13 on the US Disco File Top 20 chart. [ 3 ]
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.