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I have bunched together elements about live performance and personnel, separating off album info, and tightened up text. The personification of the band has been removed... it's a band - singular. One link, though not dead, gave no information at all.
The uncited assertion that the band name came from the Aretha Franklin track, "First Snow in Kokomo" appears to be taken from a web site that has no cited reference for this. I have added a link to a firmer source for the name origin.
This article needs expansion... I will give it a go when I have the time.
Acabashi ( talk) 18:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I remember Kokomo, but only in terms of what I saw in the music press of the day. I recall that Bob Dylan did have a high regard for the band, and did want to work with them. However, if my memory is correct, this NEVER happened. Apparently, Dylan met some of the band members (in London, I think) to try and organise something. During this meeting, one of the members announced that (s)he thought that Dylans music was "sh*t". On that basis, Dylan cancelled the arrangement. Perusal of the British Music press of the day ("Sounds", "Melody Maker" and/or the "NME") should confirm this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taff Hewitt ( talk • contribs) 19:42, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
The Naughty Rhythms tour might merit a mention, it being fairly pivotal in the band's career, as noted in the Billboard bio. Wwwhatsup ( talk) 23:38, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
I don't know how this band was received by their fellow Britishers, and the rest of the "Commonwealth", but here , in the U.S., their one cover "hit" in the U.S., Bobby Womack's 'Soul\Disco' classic "I Can Understand It", really "'burned-up' "Urban" and "Pop" radio in the mid-70s! The reaction from "Africanos" here was one of 'shock', joy, and "grove", that a white, foreign band could make such a good, and "reverently" soulful rendition of a composition that had quickly become a classic worldwide! I say again, that this group's interpretation of "I Can Understand It" invoked all sorts of reactions in neighborhoods throughout the U.S., from "Yeah, Baby", to "That's the 'shet',man, to "...How Dare They"!
Yes, Indeed: Testimony from one to another, in every social venue (even Jazz joints) attest to this band's vibrancy with their interpretation of Mr. Womack's classic!
When an artist(s) work becomes so unveringly (oh, excuse: I meant to say "universally",) evocative, what can be said besides that it's a "hit", and "...it grooves", despite those prejudcial "Chart Ratings"; and on that note, yeah, "Kokomo"does rate as a "Black music" band, since they too are "short-shrifted"! 67.86.110.102 ( talk) 18:23, 12 May 2018 (UTC)Veryverser
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I have bunched together elements about live performance and personnel, separating off album info, and tightened up text. The personification of the band has been removed... it's a band - singular. One link, though not dead, gave no information at all.
The uncited assertion that the band name came from the Aretha Franklin track, "First Snow in Kokomo" appears to be taken from a web site that has no cited reference for this. I have added a link to a firmer source for the name origin.
This article needs expansion... I will give it a go when I have the time.
Acabashi ( talk) 18:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
I remember Kokomo, but only in terms of what I saw in the music press of the day. I recall that Bob Dylan did have a high regard for the band, and did want to work with them. However, if my memory is correct, this NEVER happened. Apparently, Dylan met some of the band members (in London, I think) to try and organise something. During this meeting, one of the members announced that (s)he thought that Dylans music was "sh*t". On that basis, Dylan cancelled the arrangement. Perusal of the British Music press of the day ("Sounds", "Melody Maker" and/or the "NME") should confirm this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taff Hewitt ( talk • contribs) 19:42, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
The Naughty Rhythms tour might merit a mention, it being fairly pivotal in the band's career, as noted in the Billboard bio. Wwwhatsup ( talk) 23:38, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
I don't know how this band was received by their fellow Britishers, and the rest of the "Commonwealth", but here , in the U.S., their one cover "hit" in the U.S., Bobby Womack's 'Soul\Disco' classic "I Can Understand It", really "'burned-up' "Urban" and "Pop" radio in the mid-70s! The reaction from "Africanos" here was one of 'shock', joy, and "grove", that a white, foreign band could make such a good, and "reverently" soulful rendition of a composition that had quickly become a classic worldwide! I say again, that this group's interpretation of "I Can Understand It" invoked all sorts of reactions in neighborhoods throughout the U.S., from "Yeah, Baby", to "That's the 'shet',man, to "...How Dare They"!
Yes, Indeed: Testimony from one to another, in every social venue (even Jazz joints) attest to this band's vibrancy with their interpretation of Mr. Womack's classic!
When an artist(s) work becomes so unveringly (oh, excuse: I meant to say "universally",) evocative, what can be said besides that it's a "hit", and "...it grooves", despite those prejudcial "Chart Ratings"; and on that note, yeah, "Kokomo"does rate as a "Black music" band, since they too are "short-shrifted"! 67.86.110.102 ( talk) 18:23, 12 May 2018 (UTC)Veryverser