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Originally Posted by BDiH
anyone recognize this guy?
The fellow who wrote "Rum and Coca Cola"? |
The history of this cute song is a long and twisting road involving lawsuits and other strange deeds.
“
Rum and Coca-Cola” is the title of a popular calypso. Originally composed by Lord Invader and Lionel Belasco, it was copyrighted in the United States by entertainer Morey Amsterdam and became a huge hit in 1945 for the Andrews Sisters, spending ten weeks at the top of Billboard's U.S. Pop Singles chart.
The story is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_and_Coca-Cola