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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.
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.
"Still Cruisin'" is a song written by Mike Love and Terry Melcher for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1989 album Still Cruisin' and reached number 11 in Austria, number 28 in Australia and number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
"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.
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine.
The album features The Beach Boys' biggest hits from 1962-1966, but also includes the 1988 No. 1 hit "Kokomo". After the album was certified 2× platinum by the RIAA , Capitol made the decision to create sequels to the collection, so the original release was updated accordingly and reissued.
Actor and musician John Stamos, left, of "Full House" fame, performs with Mike Love bof The Beach Boys. Stamos will join the band for its July 11 concert at Capital Credit Union Park in Ashwaubenon.
Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician who co-founded the Beach Boys.He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian and Dennis, and the group's de facto leader in the early to mid-1970s.