[78-L] Fw: Kansas City Kitty

[simmonssomer]

Uhhh..or was that Wackanacksack....?

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Kansas City Kitty


> Matter of fact it is very famous and impossible to forget!
> Fats Waller was the vehicle when he recorded "You Meet The Nicest People 
> In
> Your Dreams" BB B-10346  6/28/39.
> He sang........
> "I've looked the whole world over
> From Hackenacksack to Dover"
>
> Al S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 11:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Kansas City Kitty
>
>
>> 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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