TV ACRES: Music & Musicians > Songs & Lyrics "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" (Edd Byrnes/77 Sunset Strip)

"Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" - The detective drama 77 SUNSET STRIP/ABC/1958-64 featured a hip, young parking lot attendant named Gerald Lloyd Kookson III (Edd Byrnes) more popularly called "Kookie" who was constantly running a comb through the locks of his hair. His narcissistic habit inspired a hit Warner Brothers 45 rpm rock and roll recording "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" (1959). In the song, a girl (Connie Stevens) continually asks Kookie to put down his comb so she can get romantic. The song was originally performed during the opening episode of the 1959-60 season when Kookie helped Stuart Bailey (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) catch a jewel thief.

Connie:	Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
Edward:	Well now, let's take it from the top & grab some wheels & on the way we'll talk about some cuckoo deals.
Connie::	But Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
Edward:	Now you're on the way, miss, & I'm readin' you just fine. Don't cut out of here till we get on Cloud 9.
Connie:	But Kookie?
Edward:	I've got smog in my noggin ever since you made the scene
Connie:	You're the utmost!
Edward:	If you ever tool me out...dead, I'm the saddest, like a brain
Connie:	The very utmost. Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
Edward:	Man, I got my bruise lighters in my flapsy-colored pen You're gonna send me to that planet called... you know it, baby, the end!
(Saxophone Solo)
Connie:	Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
Edward:	If you ever cut out, you might be a stray cat 'Cause when I'm flyin' solo, nowhere's we're on that!
Connie:	Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
Edward:	What's with this comb caper, baby? Why do you wanna latch up with my comb?
Connie:	I just want you to stop combing your hair...& kiss me. You're the maximum utmost.
Edward:	Well, I beans & I dreams goin', I'm movin' right now 'Cause that's the kind of scene that I dig...baby, you're the ginchiest!
1959 Album with "Lend Me You Comb"