Fact #177223
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Short story:
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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John Sebastian (founder, The Lovin' Spoonful): It (Coffee Blues) was always a big crowd pleaser because of his (Mississippi John Hurt's) particularly innocent delivery and his guileless way of presenting it. His audience was frequently filled with beautiful college women - he always had appeal for the women in the audience. He would usually start by taking a sip from a coffee cup that was onstage. It was usually on a little stool by his chair, and he'd sip from the cup and say, 'I always have my cup of Maxwell House coffee, 'cause it's good to the very last drop.' And then resume playing, and with great innocence play this song that would go, 'I love my baby by the lovin' spoonful.' And as he began to sing about it, by the third or fourth time, when he'd come to the words 'the lovin' spoonful,' everybody would know what he was referring to. It was a set piece for him, and that's why it was memorable.
(Source : https://www.songfacts.com/facts/mississippi-john-hurt/coffee-blues)
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(Source : https://www.songfacts.com/facts/mississippi-john-hurt/coffee-blues)