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09 Aug 06 - 11:45 PM (#1805882) Subject: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: GUEST,Gene A local music pal found these lyrics for me today He said he never knew they existed until today. I couldn't recall a single line in the song - but I could whistle the tune COCOANUT GROVE © 1938 Lyrics & Music: Harry Owens Introduced by Owens and his Royal Hawaiians in the Paramount film, Cocoanut Grove. There's a cocoanut grove where life is entrancing And there, sweetheart, we'll find romancing And love for two By the light of a South Sea Island moon There's a cocoanut grove where your happy love Will do his part, and soon discover A rendezvous In the shelter of a tropical lagoon Palm trees will be swaying While steel guitars are playing Believe what I'm saying, dear I swear it's true There's a cocoanut grove where I'll be confessing The simple truth that you've been guessing Sweetheart I love but you |
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09 Aug 06 - 11:51 PM (#1805884) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: GUEST,number 6 This song was recorded by the Lovin Spoonful back in 1966 (can't recall exactly what album it was) ... but it was well done by them. Interesting I always thought it was a John Sebastian composition. Used to play this song myself. sIx |
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09 Aug 06 - 11:53 PM (#1805885) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: GUEST,number 6 Actually slightly different lyrics by the Lovin spoonful .. It's really true how nothin matters. No mad, mad world and no mad hatters. No one's pitchin cause their ain't no batters in coconut grove. Don't bother door. Theirs no one comin. The oceans roar, were double drummin. of many silly thoughts and silly ways the ocean breeze has cooled my mind. the salty days are her's and mine just to do what we anna |
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10 Aug 06 - 01:22 PM (#1806437) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: Q (Frank Staplin) Both song and movie titled "Coconut Grove." Also the night club. Not 'cocoanut'. Filmography- Coconut Grove, 1938, a BW film, featured Harry Owens as 'Hula Harry'. Cast included such favorites as Ben Blue, Rufe Davis and Eve Arden in addition to Harriet Hilliard and Fred MacMurray. The Yacht-Club Boys also appeared. |
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10 Aug 06 - 08:21 PM (#1806803) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: GUEST,Gene I'll stick with Cocoanut Grove... http://www.vh1.com/movies/movie/54752/plot.jhtml lists the 1938 movie as titled above and ASCAP.COM lists the song as COCOANUT GROVE by Harry Owens |
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10 Aug 06 - 09:12 PM (#1806839) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: GUEST,Gene And will wonders never cease? the Original Decca recording #23626A lists the title as Cocoanut Grove 'nuff sed! |
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10 Aug 06 - 09:14 PM (#1806842) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: GUEST,Gene I type faster than I proofread.. make that Decca #23616A |
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10 Aug 06 - 09:19 PM (#1806845) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: Q (Frank Staplin) Gene, I found lots of references with both spellings- But you are correct on the ASCAP listing, and probably the film as well (looking for an advertisement, but can't find one). The ImDb Movie Data Base gives Cocoanut Grove for the film. I started with data from Kanehele, "Hawaiian Music and Musicians," 1979, University Press of Hawai'i, p. 281-282, "Harry Owens," in which the film is listed as "Coconut Grove." Looks like I have company in the error. |
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11 Aug 06 - 01:22 AM (#1806961) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: GUEST Q - I have to 'fess up a bit...before this week I always thought it was Coconut Grove, also, till a music pal who lays claim to actually knowing Harry Owens set me straight...I played the song on the pedal steel years ago and I did not recall any lyrics, PERIOD. Another music pal dug up the lyrics and also the SCAN of the 78... |
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11 Aug 06 - 01:15 PM (#1807346) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Cocoanut Grove From: Artful Codger Don Ho has recorded "Cocoanut Grove" and quite a number of other Harry Owens "Hawaiian" songs - an easy source for the tune. |
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16 Aug 06 - 12:39 AM (#1810848) Subject: Lyr Add: COCOANUT GROVE (Harry Owens) From: Jim Dixon Lyrics copied from HUAPALA - Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives (which has lyrics to lots more Hawaiian-themed songs, and a few tunes): COCOANUT GROVE Words & Music by Harry Owens, 1938. VERSE: I know of a place poets write about, An island of dreams they delight about, Where the birds on high sing a song to us, And the earth and sky belong to us. There's a grove of palm trees Growing by the sea, Beckoning to you and me. CHORUS: There's a cocoanut grove where life is entrancing, And there, sweetheart, we'll find romancing, And love for two, By the light of a south sea island moon. There's a cocoanut grove where your happy lover Will do his part and soon discover A rendezvous In the shelter of a tropical lagoon. Palm trees will be swaying While steel guitars are playing. Believe what I'm saying, dear. I swear it's true. There's a cocoanut grove where I'll be confessing The simple truth that you've been guessing. Sweetheart, I love but you. [Source: Copyright Royal Music Publisher, 447 Ilimanu Street, Kailua, HI. 96734] |