Who knows how some things get stuck in my cranium? According to Wikipedia, the original "Kansas City" that was also released as "KC Loving" had this line:
"They got a crazy way of lovin' there, and I'm gonna get me some"
but Harrison, whose version was the #1 Billboard hit in 1959 for seven weeks, changed it to "They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas...d_Stoller_song)
Virtually every R&B act with a recording contract released versions of the song during or after the song's mega-hit run while Harrison's version was facing legal challenges.
Another historical side note was that, during the late '50s, white "cover versions" of R&B songs often outsold the original black R&B version. The white versions often cleaned up lyrics considered too sexualized for the larger radio audience. Harrison, a black artist from North Carolina, appeared to have cleaned up the lyrics as a pre-emptive strike against cover versions and it appeared to work because it was his version that became the million-seller, not somebody like Pat Boone.
Anyway, I don't want the thread to have more posts about a 60-year-old song than about a playoff victory.
01-05-2020, 02:20 PM
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