C.o.d's - Kellmac

[Alamo]

This question has probably been asked before so apologies if so.

 

What does C.O.D's stand for?

 

I know the M.V.Ps for example is Most Valuable Players.

 

Just interested.

 

Thanks in advance for the answer.

 

regards - Al

[Robbk]

M.V.P. stands for "Most Venerated Person" or MVPs (persons)  - meaning a dignitary, or the most important persons at a civic meeting.  Most Valuable Player for a sports league came about much later.

 

C. O. D. means "Cash on Delivery".  I guess the singing group used it to mean that they were a group who really "delivered the goods when they were on stage".

 

But harmony group names often resulted from less than 2 seconds of "thinking".  If the group liked the "sound" of the name, it stuck, whether or not it made any sense, at all.

 

For example, some groups were named after cigarette brands or brand names of personal or household products.  Many were names of cars.

Edited July 9, 2014 by RobbK

[Drewtg]

Not an answer but I always thought it stood for Cash On Delivery. I know the USAF has a Combat Operations Division but it seems that, just like in England, it would be unlikely that poor blacks would get anywhere near the Air Force.

[Robbk]

Not an answer but I always thought it stood for Cash On Delivery. I know the USAF has a Combat Operations Division but it seems that, just like in England, it would be unlikely that poor blacks would get anywhere near the Air Force.

Black kids from Chicago's South Side and West Side could have been in The USAF, or known someone who was in that organisation.  But, I think that it is likely that the group just wanted a name that rolls easily of the tongue.  I was living in South Chicago at the time (right near the boundary of South Chicago and The south Side.  I worked on The South Side, and most of my friends were South Siders.   Using three letter initials for a group name was thought to be "cool" at that time.  Often, they didn't stand for anything, but, just sounded "cool".  Then, the group thought they had to make up a back story on how they decided on the name, just to satisfy all the fans asking the question.  I think The CODs just thought "CODs" sounded "cool".  

 

MVPs, CODs, TCBs, etc.  just sounded cool.  It was just coming into fashion near then end of the '50s and through the early '60s to shorten speech by using initials to stand for words.