[78-L] Kansas City Kitty

[David Lennick]

Nope..check Jimmy Durante's "Joe Goes Up, I Goes Down".
"So I went to Hoboken to forget..and then I went to Hackensack to forget Hoboken."

dl

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
> 
> 
> -------- 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 
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