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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 city of Kokomo was named after the Miami man Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo, said to have been one of the four sons of Chief Richardville, last of the chiefs of the Miami people. [9] [10] Tradition holds that David Foster, the "Father of Kokomo," named the town Kokomo after the "ornriest Indian on earth" because Kokomo was "the ornriest town on earth."
Kokomo, Indiana, a city in Howard County, that is also its county seat Indiana University Kokomo; Kokomo, Arkansas, an unincorporated area in Lee County; Kokomo, Colorado, a ghost town in Summit County; Kokomo, Hawaii, a community on the island of Maui; Kokomo, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Marion County; Kokomo, Texas
The Kokomo Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of Howard County in Indiana. Howard County had a population estimate of 83,831 in 2023. Kokomo is also the principal city of the area known as North Central Indiana, the area around Kokomo with economic ties.
The city of Kokomo, Indiana is named after Kokomo, but it is unknown who actually proposed "Kokomo" as the name of the town or why. [9] According to a popular legend, David Foster, the founder of the city of Kokomo, once stated, "It was the orneriest town on earth, so I named it after the orneriest Indian on earth—called it Kokomo."
Dec. 25—Things got a little weird this year in Kokomo. Although the pandemic, natural disasters and crime filled the front page on many days, some stories let readers escape all the bad news and ...
Mishawaka - from Potawatomi and Miami-Illinois placenames meaning "firewood-tree land", referring to the large number of standing dead trees in the area. [ 13 ] Mongo - shortened from Mongoquinong, representing maankwahkionka ("in the loon land"), which was the name of one of the Miami signatories of the 1840 Treaty of the Wabash .
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