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Kookie: Star of "77 Sunset Strip" by Collector's Choice (2001-10-09) - Amazon.com Music
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This cd is silly at best, occasionally embarrassing, and somehow very very fun! Byrnes talks through ridiculous gags, accompanied by a few minor 1960s stars...and the romp somehow works. So bad, as they say...okay, it's bad; but, who cares?
This late 1950s album by Edd Byrnes is nice nostalgia, but not much in the way of music. Most of the songs are novelty tunes based on the same theme - the hipness of Kookie, the very hip, jive-talking car hop on the hit TV series "77 Sunset Strip". Byrnes colors the tracks with a lot of that now dated patter and it wears thin pretty quickly. Byrnes even attempts to update Cole Porter's hit "You're the Top" by replacing original lyrics with moree contemporary names and events, but some 60 years later, those names, too, are all but forgotten. His only hit single, "Kookie, Kookie—Lend Me Your Comb", becomes particularly tiresome pretty quickly. This dialog/duet with fellow teen star Connie Stevens does at least convey what teens regarded as "cool" and what passed for hip recordings in the years before Beatlemania. It's too bad that the label didn't add Brynes Christmas parody, "Yulesville", a jived-up rewrite of "The Night Before Christmas" that was released on an album of holiday tunes performed by several Warner Brothers TV stars, with decidedly mixed results. The CD is nicely remastered and does at least preserve this mini-time capsule of 50s pop culture.
Lounge music for teenagers? Real hi-fi, and a LOT of fun. If you liked 50's pop like "Tan Shoes & Pink Shoelaces" or "Chantilly Lace", these tracks will fit right in. I can't remember if "ginchy" ever caught on as a catch-phrase tho. The album is short, and the Kookie character theme gets a little repetitious. But only a few of these songs had been on CD before this release. Of those that hadn't, a few are gems. The last track is very short (1:37) but really hot (should that be cool?) ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2004
In 1959,when the original album of this cd was released,Edd Byrnes as "Kookie" was in his own words "the ginchiest"!.Byrnes popularity as a "teen" car attendant on the Warner tv detective show "77 Sunset Strip",led to a visit to the company's recording studios.The result,was a "duet"(well sort of!)with another Warner star "Hawaiian Eye"'s Connie Stevens-the result-"Kookie Kookie (lend me your comb)",which became a huge hit.So an Edd Byrnes "Kookie" album(including the Stevens song),was inevitable-and here it is."Kookie" is a fascinating relic of its era,Hollywood's idea of "beat" language,culture and music."Kookie" is an encyclopedia of the "hep cat" slang and phraseology Byrne's character always used.Examples-
"I've had big eyes for you since we bopped at the hop!".
"I had to pipe in at your wave length 'cos I'm shook!" (Translation-I was so keen on you I had to give you a phone call)
"Man,she owned the vital statistics-I mean at all the altitudes!"
(Translation-She had a great figure)
"I pack more yellow dust than old Wells Fargo!".
(Translation-I'm rich!).
The guys must have had hours of fun making this stuff up.In the main,Edd doesnt sing on this album,just talks a stream of "Kookiespeak"(often in rhyming couplets).When he makes rather half hearted attempts at singing,the results are usually not happy(eg "You're the top","The Kookie cha cha cha","Square dance for round cats").Apart from Connie Stevens on "Kookie Kookie",Edd is joined by another real singer,Joanie Sommers,on 2 of the best tracks-"Hot rod rock" and "I don't dig you Kookie" -it's always nice to hear Joanie.On the funniest cut "Like I love you",where Kookie accidentally rings up the wrong girl for a date,the female at the other end of the line only speaks rather than sings, as a suggestive sax wails in the background.Which brings me to one of my favorite elements in this album,the great tough backing music,replete with honking dirty saxophones,provided by "the Big sound of Don Ralke"(Ralke is credited as co-writer on a number of tracks).
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