Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that is John Stamos on drums. However, something more amazing was uncovered in this video. We included this video of “Kokomo” because it shows the Beach Boys at their beachiest-harmonizing in concert, beautiful location shots (it was filmed at the then-brand-new Grand Floridian Disney World Resort in Florida) and clips of Tom Cruise flipping bottles at the tropical bar from Cocktail.
But don’t worry! We found all the actual Caribbean getaways featured in the song and rounded them up in a quick list. It seems that Kokomo is more a state of mind than a real place. There is a Kokomo, Indiana and there’s also a Kokomo “island” in Florida, but it is a tiki bar named for the song, so it came after. As far as we can tell, there were no actual islands-off the Florida Keys or elsewhere-in 1988 that were named Kokomo. Now, it’s hard to determine the inspiration for the name of the song. Though it may sound like a song from the Beach Boys’ heyday of the 1960’s, “Kokomo” was actually written for the 1988 Tom Cruise movie, Cocktail.
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