Kokomo, Indiana - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• A Romance of Kokomo (1917), a silent film
• Terror Squad (1987), starring Chuck Connors and resident Michael W. Gordon, was filmed largely in Kokomo
• The Ryan White Story (1988), starring Judith Light and Lukas Haas
• In the 1947 film Mother Wore Tights, Betty Grable and Dan Dailey sing a song entitled "Kokomo, Indiana".
• In the animated movie Cats Don't Dance, the protagonist (Danny) hails from Kokomo.
• The Blues Brothers (film) featured a fictitious Kokomo bar, Bob's Country Bunker, where patrons threw beer bottles at the band on a stage protected by a chicken wire cage.
• City Connection (A NES video game) 5th Level is located in Kokomo.
• In the television miniseries Band of Brothers, Kokomo is referenced in first episode Currahee when Floyd M. Talbert receives a package from the Chief of the Kokomo Police Department. He sent him a revolver. Also in the third episode Carentan the end of the poem read says "...he lunged he thrust both high and low and skewered the boy from Kokomo" again referencing Talbert, a native of Kokomo.
• The song Kokomo (song) by The Beach Boys is mistakenly thought to be named after Kokomo.
• The song "First Snow in Kokomo" off Young, Gifted and Black, written and performed by Aretha Franklin, refers to Kokomo.
• Kokomo mentioned in Elton John book. "Ryan saved me from myself" said Elton John.