Kokomo may refer to:
Animals
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Kokomo (gorilla), a western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo
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Kokomo Jr., a name given to two performing chimpanzees in the 1950s and 1960s
Music
Songs
* "Kokomo Blues", by
Scrapper Blackwell
Francis Hillman "Scrapper" Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was an acoustic s ...
(1928)
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"Kokomo" (song), by the Beach Boys (1988)
* "
Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)", a rock/novelty song written in 1954 by Forest Gene Wilson and Eunice Levy and recorded by
the Crew Cuts,
Perry Como, and many others
* "Kokomo", by Greg Brown from ''
The Evening Call
''The Evening Call'' is an album by American folk singer/guitarist Greg Brown, released in 2006. It was his first album of all new material in over four years.
Reception
A review of the album in '' Sing Out!'' includes a lengthy description o ...
''
* "Kokomo", by Little Feat from ''
Down on the Farm''
* "Kokomo, IN", by
Japanese Breakfast
Japanese Breakfast is an indie pop band headed by Korean-American musician Michelle Zauner.
Zauner started the band as a side project in 2013, when she was leading the Philadelphia-based emo group Little Big League. She has said that she name ...
from ''
Jubilee
A jubilee is a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of y ...
''
Other
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Kokomo (band)
Kokomo are a British band whose members were prime exponents of British soul in the 1970s. They released three albums, and the second ''Rise & Shine'' was described as "the finest British funk album of the 1970s".
Formation and personnel
Form ...
, a British group from the 1970s
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Kokomo Records, a record company from the 1960/70s
People
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Kokomo Arnold
James "Kokomo" Arnold (February 15, 1896 or 1901 – November 8, 1968) was an American blues musician. A left-handed slide guitarist, his intense style of playing and rapid-fire vocal delivery set him apart from his contemporaries. He got his ni ...
(1896/1901–1968), born James Arnold, American blues musician
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Kokomo (musician), one-time name used by American pianist, arranger and songwriter Jimmy Wisner (1931–2018)
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Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo
Kokomo, whose name is also sometimes given as Koh-Koh-Mah, Co-come-wah, Ma-Ko-Ko-Mo, or Kokomoko, was a Native American man of the Miami tribe who lived in northern Indiana at some point probably in the early nineteenth century. The city of Koko ...
(1775–1838), a chief of the Miami tribe for whom Kokomo, Indiana, was named
Places
United States
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Kokomo, Indiana, a city in Howard County, that is also its county seat
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Indiana University Kokomo
Indiana University Kokomo (IU Kokomo or IUK) is a public university in Kokomo, Indiana. It is a regional campus of Indiana University serving north central Indiana.
History
In 1932, John and George Beauchamp opened the Kokomo Junior College ...
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Kokomo, Arkansas, an unincorporated area in Lee County
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Kokomo, Colorado, a ghost town in Summit County
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Kokomo, Hawaii, a community on the island of Maui
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Kokomo, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in Marion County
* Kokomo,
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
Kokomo Creek
* Kokomo Creek, a tributary of the
Chatanika River, Alaska
* Kokomo Creek, a creek in
Hot Spring County, Arkansas
* Kokomo Creek, a tributary of
Wildcat Creek (Indiana)
Wildcat Creek is a tributary of the Wabash River in north-central Indiana. The stream is longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 19, 2011 and drains an area of .U.S. Geo ...
Elsewhere
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Sandals Cay
Sandals Cay (formerly called Kokomo Island) is part of the privately owned Sandals Royal Caribbean all-inclusive resort in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It is apparent that Sandals resorts has an almost identical island in their Nassau, Bahamas loca ...
(formerly Kokomo Island), a privately owned island in Jamaica
* Kokomo Beach, a beach on the island of
Curaçao
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