[78-L] Kansas City Kitty

[Michael Biel]

Actually you go to Hoboken to forget Hackensack.  I grew up in the town
immediately adjacent to Hackensack, New Jersey, and I can't figure out
the meaning of that line any more than dl.  In later years Hackensack
was the location of Rudy Van Gelder's first recording studio in his
mother's living room, but at the time of the song it wouldn't have had
any musical significance.  No famous music locations such as in other
towns in Northern NJ.  It is the County Seat of Bergen County, and I
resented that because of that it showed up on maps even though my town
of Teaneck had twice the population.  But Hackensack did have two movie
theaters and we only had one.  Oh, but it is the town where I first laid
eyes on a copy of Record Research!!!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


-------- Original Message --------
From: "Bob Rice" <bobrice at snet.net>
>>> "I wanna go back to that little black shack in Hackensack"
>>> Line in one of my Victrola records?
Sean Miller wrote:
>> New Jersey! 
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> And Hackensack is where you go to forget Hoboken. But it must mean
> the same as the still current expression "get the sack" or "get sacked",
> i.e. rejection or dismissal.  dl


From: Kristjan Saag
>>> What does "the well-known Hackensack" refer to in Walter Donaldson
>>> & Edgar Leslie's "Kansas City Kitty" (as recorded by Noble Sissle,
>>> Harry Reser,  Original Memphis Five etc).
> 
>>> Ev'ry Jim and Jack
>>> Got the well known Hackensack
>>> When Kansas City Kitty smiled at me

>>> Full lyrics at  http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=5060
>>> Kristjan