One of the places you think about in Massachusetts is Cape Cod {along with Boston}. Old Cape Cod has become the unofficial anthem for Cape Cod.
The song Old Cape Cod was written by Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus and Allan Jeffrey. Yakus adopted a poem by Rothrock into song lyrics and Jeffrey wrote the music.
The song was published in 1957.
Patti Page recorded the song, which became a gold record. She never visited the cape until after the song became a hit. She is recorded as saying on February 27, 2010, “I could not believe it when I finally did go, because I realized that [the song] had captured something about a place that I had had within me for so many years, but never knew. It’s unexplainable to me because it’s so dear to me – I knew I had been here before [although] I hadn’t.”
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