Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)

Infobox Single
Name = Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)
Artist = 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 = Forest Gene Wilson, Jake Porter, Eunice Levy
Last single = "Don't Be Angry" (1955)
This single = "Ko Ko Mo" (1955)
Next single = "Chop Chop Boom" (1955)
Misc =

"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. [http://electricearl.com/dws/gene&eunice.html] 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. cite book
last = Whitburn
first = Joel
authorlink = Joel Whitburn
title = Top Pop Records 1940-1955
publisher = Record Research
year = 1973 ] The song was one side of a two-sided hit, with the flip side being "Earth Angel."

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