I always thought it was ".....like cherry cola". But online lyrics sites have it as "coca-cola". I need a TalkBack ruling on whether I've been hearing wrong all these years.
I vote for cherry cola.
I think it’s both and either. Was originally coca-cola but got banned by the BBC (on the grounds of mentioning brands, rather than transvestism), so they re-recorded it as cherry-cola.
Motion seconded. Definitely cherry.
I didn't know that. To me, cherry cola makes more sense, and scans better.
I'm not a particularly well renowned songwriter. So grade my opinion appropriately.
The first cherry cola was launched by Pepsi in 1985 and Lola was released in 1970, so it must have been "coca-cola" for some time.
I don't think that's true. There were cherry cola's in my childhood when the pop van used to come round, and I believe it dates back to the really old days of soda fountain shops. It might have been first marketed and subject to distribution at scale across multiple territories by a global corporation in 1985.... But your rola cola type generic pop came in loads of flavours.
Of course my memory could be wrong.
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I really liked Cherry 7up, but I don't think you can get it anymore. Cherry Coke is ok.
"Ray Davies was forced to make a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) round-trip flight from New York to London and back on June 3, 1970, interrupting the band's American tour, to change those words to the generic "cherry cola" for the single release, which is included on various compilation albums as well.”
In 1970. Fifteen years before the internet thought it existed. So the single release was always that.
I will be going to see Ditz again tonight. In Manchester. Which means I will miss the second half of the match. A blessing or a curse.
