Throwing back to the week of February 22, 1955, we find the usual repeats in the top three spots before a newcomer at #4: Perry Como with ‘Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So).’
This was RCA Victor’s first rock record, and matching it with a white crooner like Como was, as one historian put it, an “industry effort to whitewash the racy, raunchy music of rhythm and blues before anyone’s daughter heard it.”
The song was written and first recorded by Gene & Eunice, the stage name of R&B duo Forest Gene Wilson and Eunice Levy. That version reached the top five of the R&B charts.
Como’s cover performed the best overall, though a version by The Crew Cuts reached the top ten at the same time. Two white acts had a top ten hit with the same song first introduced by a Black act — certainly not the first or last time that would happen.
Talk to me baby, whisper in my ear
A come a little closer, don’t you have no fear!
Don’t you know? ~ I love you so!
Don’t you know? ~ I love you so!
When I holler “hey! ko-ko-mo!”
Heard what you told me, heard what you said!
Heard what you told me, heard what you said!
Don’t you worry my purdy, I don’t lose my head!
There’s dimples on my elbows, dimples on her knees
Dimples on my elbows, dimples on her knees
She thrills an’ thrills me, just a little squeeze!
( ko, ko, ko-ko-mo! ko, ko, ko-ko-mo!
Ko, ko, ko-ko-mo! )
Don’t you know ko-ko-mo that I love you so!
Oh talk to me baby ( talk, talk! ) whisper in my ear ( talk, talk, talk! )
Oh talk to me baby ( talk, talk! ) whisper in my ear ( talk, talk, talk! )
( tell it to me! ) come a little closer, don’t you have no fear!
Ah! ~ don’t you know? ~ I love you so!
Don’t you know? ~ I love you so!
When I holler “hey! ( hey! ) ko-ko-mo!”
( ko-ko-mo! ko-ko-mo! ko-ko-mo! )
Don’t you know
I love you ko-ko-mo!
Ko-ko-mo!
Meet Me In Montauk 
Not a great song, but the original is certainly better than this whitewashed sanitized version.
Again this former barber turned crooner was playing constantly in my home during my childhood. But it didn’t keep me from listening to my Elvis records!