[78-L] Kansas City Kitty

[Julian Vein]

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
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There's "Hackensack, New Jersey" by Arthur Lange a.o. and "Back In 
Hackensack" (1924). I guess it was used because of its alliterative quality.

       Julian Vein


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