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When former US president Theodore Roosevelt drinks a cup of Maxwell House Coffee during a visit to Andrew Jackson's estate, The Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee, USA, he reportedly proclaims it to be, "good to the last drop". The Maxwell House Coffee company will adopt the phrase as their slogan, and in 1964 Mississippi John Hurt will be inspired to use the phrase in the lyric of his song Coffee Blues. The song also popularises the sexual euphemism Lovin' Spoonful, which will inspire the name of one of the most popular bands of the 1960s.
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