| "Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)" | ||||
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| Single by The Crew-Cuts | ||||
| Released | 1955 | |||
| Recorded | 1955 | |||
| Genre | Big band, Traditional pop, R&B, Doo-wop, Swing music | |||
| Length | 02:40 | |||
| Label | Mercury records | |||
| Writer(s) | Forest Gene Wilson, Jake Porter, Eunice Levy | |||
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"Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)" is a 1955 popular song written by Forest Gene Wilson, Jake Porter, and Eunice Levy. Wilson and Levy (performing under the name Gene and Eunice) made the first recording of the song.[1] Well-known cover recordings were made by The Crew-Cuts and by Perry Como. Other recordings were also made by The Hutton Sisters, Bill Darnell & Betty Clooney, Louis Armstrong, and country singer Hawkshaw Hawkins.
The recording by The Crew-Cuts was released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70529. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 29, 1955. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #11; on the Best Seller chart, at #10; on the Juke Box chart, at #6. [1] The song was one side of a two-sided hit, with the flip side being "Earth Angel."