Kokomo: Robbie Robertson Went There First?
Pretty Funky:
So with the isolation restrictions I’ve been listening to albums I haven’t heard in years. Today it was Robbie including his song ‘Somewhere Down The Crazy River’. The chorus includes...
Ooh, catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me
That was from 1987, a year before the Beach Boys hit. I can find no reference to a blue train ever going to Kokomo, Indiana so both songs were of a fantasy place in the song writers mind.
(Sure it’s trivia and pointless...but what else is there really to discuss? ;D)
Rocky Raccoon:
Chuck Berry got there first actually. :)
From his song “No Particular Place to Go”
“No particular place to go
So we parked way out on the kokomo
The night was young and the moon was bold
So we both decided to take a stroll”
urbanite:
The same Chuck Berry that snubbed Brian Wilson when he came up and said hello to him.
hideyotsuburaya:
probably because initially Brian claimed full song-writing credit on SURFIN' SAFARI, when the melody was copied from Berry's SWEET LITTLE 16
after a lawsuit decided in Chuck's favor Brian lost all credit
TonyW:
Tim Buckley went there too in 1973 on his song Stone In Love
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