who loves you

I got a copy of the Four Seasons' album Who Loves You from a discogs vendor in Italy a few months ago, it's really scratched and fucked up just the way I like it. When the title track came out as a single, it kind of spooked me with its strange haunting intro vocal and then a misunderstanding I never really processed at the time (I was ten): 

Who loves you, pretty baby?
Who's gonna help you through the night?
Who loves you, pretty mama?
Who's always there to make it right?

I think I might have mentioned that I was ten, and I suppose I had never come across that weird, weird WEIRD American thing of describing a girl/woman who is not your mother as 'mama', but also a minor but crucial mishearing had me understanding the third line as 'Who loves your pretty mama' and imagining some scenario whereby the probably newly acquainted older man is asking about who the other men are in the life of mother-daughter household i.e. 'do you have a boyfriend? You don't? OK and does your mother have a boyfriend?' 

It was a long time ago and I am pretty sure that I had not encountered weird porn tropes about this kind of thing (as far as I recall, but then again, it was a long time ago) so I just wrestled with the idea as best I could on the information available. It was something that probably happened in the adult world, because most things seemed possible there. 

It was also super confusing that the Four Seasons were like an old, old, old group from the early 1960s, which seemed a much longer time ago in 1975 than it does now, and just to add to the confusion they had a new song about December 1963. Did my head in.

I don't remember thinking about this but I suppose the who loves you schtick had something to do with Kojak which was so hot right then. I can't remember ever watching that show but I probably did (it was a kind of Batman-Superman thing with Columbo) but the catchphrase was everywhere. 

A propos of nothing except thinking about Kojak, it occurred to me that the character name always sounded super fake, so I went looking to see whether there have really been people with that name and yeah, it's a name. However, I don't think it's a Greek name, which is the conceit of the tv show. Here's an example of why it might not be, from the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle of 16 September 1927:

Although of course there was a big Jewish Greek population and so maybe I should do more research before I make these kinds of claims. I promise to come back to this before now and the end of time. 

*Update: I looked on a website called Forebears and found that according to a website called Forebears, the name Kojak is most prevalent in Egypt, they even generate a map to show you where it appears in concentration: 

So there is no-one called Kojak in Greece (or New Zealand or Greenland). 

I thought maybe the name 'Kojak' (with a so-called 'hard J') was perhaps related to the name 'Kodak' but imagine my surprise to find that the name 'Kodak' as applied to the famous photographic products company was a name made up in 1888 by George and Maria Eastman using 'an anagram set' whatever that is. However, it is a name, and its highest occurrence is in Turkey.