Jennifur Sun from RamonaOne of my top five fav Beach Boys tunes.Vee from Virginia Beach, Va.My Mom liked this song. Msn from United KingdomThis song also brings back traumatic memories for me.Notsohappyatall from United KingdomTo Jo-c Lima Peru, I agree the song does have that sort of 80s backing music you describe, I cannot stand the videos either, they are awful and very upsetting too.Tim from HoustonIn the Muppets version, the line "gives me a tropical contact high" is replaced with "under a tropical island sky"Īlso, Montserrat doesn't have much of a mystique anymore-a volcano has made the southern half of the island uninhabitable.I don't know what Scott McKenzie's involvement was, I honestly don't, because all I know is John Phillips, Terry Melcher, and myself put that song together, all those different elements." I sang the chorus and the verses on that particular song. But he actually produced that song and he wrote that bridge part, which Carl Wilson sang beautifully. Terry Melcher produced the Byrds and Paul Revere & the Raiders, very successful producer. That's where you want to go, down to Kokomo,' that's Terry Melcher. The bridge, where it goes, 'Ooo, I want to take you down to Kokomo, we'll get there fast and we can take it slow. Key Largo, Montego.' That's me, the chorus and the words to the chorus was Mike Love. So I came up with the chorus part: 'Aruba, Jamaica, ooo, I want to take you to Bermuda, Bahama, come on, pretty mama. But it didn't have such a groove, I didn't feel. 'That's where you want to go to get away from it all.' So that was the verse. We used to go sounds like an old guy lamenting his misspent youth.' So I just changed the tense there. He wrote 'Off the Florida keys, there's a place called Kokomo, that's where we used to go to get away from it all.' I said, 'Hold on. Regarding the composition of the song, Mike Love told us: "The verses and the verse lyric was written by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas. Terry Melcher wrote this song with the help of John Phillips, who was a former member of The Mamas And The Papas, along with Beach Boy Mike Love, and Scott McKenzie, who had a hit in 1967 with " San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)." Phillips' daughter Chynna was in the group Wilson Phillips with Brian Wilson's daughters, Carnie and Wendy. How does it go again?' So I literally, over the phone - he was in the studio and I was on the phone - sang : 'Aruba, Jamaica, ooo, I want to take you.' So he's writing that down, and I'm singing it in the scene, the notes, and the timing of it in tempo to the track." I said, 'Well, here's what I want to do.' And I remember I had told them about the part before. They just had a certain amount of bars, but there was nothing going on there. So Terry was in the studio doing the track and they didn't have the chorus yet. So that's where I came up with the 'Aruba, Jamaica' idea, that part. So we were asked by the director to come up with a song for this part of the movie where Tom Cruise goes from a bartender in New York to Jamaica. In a Songfacts interview with Mike Love, he explained how it came together: "Terry was in the studio doing a track with a demo, because we were asked to do the song for the soundtrack of the movie Cocktail, featuring Tom Cruise. They were one of the most popular bands of the '60s, and had a bunch of songs dealing with recreation and fun, which is why they were asked to record for the movie. The Beach Boys' glory days were behind them, and they had been playing fairs and nostalgia shows. This came together when the music producer Terry Melcher was hired to work on a song with The Beach Boys for the Tom Cruise movie Cocktail.
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