[Groundhog74]

morzh - that youtube video you linked me too was cool. It brought back a good memory of my mom before she passed. The wife and I bought some records for a crank phonograph we have and that song was one of them. I played it for mom because I had never heard of it and wondered if she had. She was a real movie buff all her life and she did remember it. She grew up near Baltimore and when she married dad (both Marines stationed at Quantico) they moved back to Kokomo. Quite the culture shock for her. Funny, for a run of the mill Midwestern industrial town, Kokomo pops up a lot. When I was in the Navy, many of the old timers said they had heard of it somewhere, but most couldn't remember where. One guy mentioned a character "Little Joe from Kokomo" or something similar. There was the song from the '47 movie, it was mentioned as the location of the country western bar in the Blues Brothers movie, There was an issue of Playboy with "the girls of Kokomo" (pretty lame I must say), the Beach Boys song (although that's about a bar, not the town), and when I was in high school I read somewhere that Kokomo had more registered Corvettes per capita than any other city in the U.S. No doubt due to the large GM plant that was here in town.
Thanks.