The title of the song (apparently) comes from a line in the 1980 movie, "Airplane!" Main character Ted Stryker is describing bar he frequented during the war: "It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit."
The title of the song (apparently) comes from a line in the 1980 movie, "Airplane!" Main character Ted Stryker is describing bar he frequented during the war: "It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit."