True story - About 10 yrs ago, I was blasting this song in my car one day when I was sitting at 202 and 1(in Pennsylvania) at a red light....This 70yo woman looked back at me with the biggest smile on her face....I waved at her, she waved back at me, and that's all that needed to be said. Every generation has it's "good ole days"...and that day we overlapped....it was one of the most awesome moments ever.
couldnt she have just been being polite? seems a simpler conclusion than she was approving of the youngsters music choice because she is just so old that she knows that music...
@@Cristian-vm1bg The funnier thing is this wouldn't even be music a 70 year old woman would listen to in the "good ole days", as it was released in 1997.
Did the women go to Mexicans for love or American sailors. A short little Mexican with a huge head was kicking it to a hot american woman with legs that went on forever. She tells.him aremt you a little to short.to kick it to a woman like me . Mexican says best perfumes come in small .packages she says yeah But not with that big ass cap/cranium Jesus christ how do you balance that head.
@Joe Blow I take it you do not even know what the zoot suit riots were? They were essentially riots over bagging clothing wore by Mexicans and other minorities. US servicemen and other whites would attack them claiming it was a waste of fabric. It was just a cover to be racist douchebags. Learn your history.
@@SlayerofFiction wtf are you talking about? He was referencing the short-lived swing craze in the 90s not the riots. You seem a little antsy to posture against "racism".
My principal was the sax in this band, though he did quit the band soon after this song came out. He was a great man and hysterical. I miss him so much, he died two years ago after a long battle with cancer. :I
Late 90s thru 2001 was just the best EVER. So lucky I was having a blast with all this music/dancing back then...it was gone in the blink of an eye. Still can’t believe it happened... 👠👞👒🕶👗
My mom welcomed this song and the 90s swing craze; her being Chicana she didn’t think she’d like a song called “zoot suit riot” but the music and the fashion reminded her of her grandma playing it around her growing up.
There was a question about the Zoot Suit riots on my AP US History exam today. This song popped into my head and I got it right. Thanks for the college credit Cherry Poppin Daddies.
One of my favorite songs about one of my favorite subjects. I love American history, I love Mexican history, and I love when the two come together... even in a tragic manner as the Riots, it's still interesting to learn about.
I don't recall the Zoot Suit brawls as tragic (no tragic stories anyway).. Mostly it was jealousy, war time sailors with money competing with the local boys for girlfriends. It was more fun than vicious.
One eyewitness, writer Carey McWilliams, painted a terrifying picture: “On Monday evening, June seventh, thousands of Angelenos … turned out for a mass lynching. Marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of several thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up every zoot-suiter they could find. Street cars were halted while Mexicans, and some Filipinos and Negroes, were jerked out of their seats, pushed into the streets, and beaten with sadistic frenzy.”
Would be fun...re-live your childhood again...or right any wrongs...or fix regrets...but that also poses a risk...cause maybe those regrets or wrongs that you did were supposed to happen...everything happens for a reason...
@@mojojojo548, true. Heck, why relive life even though you have one life? Use it wisely my good freind, your life is on the line and is waiting for your call in choices, 😉
I bought the CD back in the '90's and still have it. I played the CRAP out of this on drums, and still will! Now I'm into the trumpet, and soon also the trombone and piccolo trumpet, and also have a 1958 Wurlitzer model 700 electric piano I am restoring, so it looks like I'll be adding keyboard into the fray as well! And to think, in 2011, I had NO IDEA how to READ MUSIC! I only played drums, did that well, and still do, even as an incomplete paraplegic in a wheelchair (which I think adds a real 'cool factor' to playing drums!) and am now learning to play trumpet! Life is GOOD! This stuff ROCKS! Big band music KICKS ASS!
It's not exactly "big band"....this is just swing music, a modern interpretation clearly inspired by the real Big Band stuff from the 1930's and 1940's. It's good, just not quite the same.
The Daddies put on great shows!! Lead singer was such a showman. We went every time they played in Portland. My best friend from HS dated the keyboard player in college. Good times!!
We just performed this in the town of etzatlan in our Foklorico performing arts company and those people loved everybit of our zoot suit riot viva la musica y cielito lindo de Perris CA
hey! Note to user who posted this thank you I’ve been searching for this song ever since I can remember I did a dance to it when I was like 12 years old so thank you for the nostalgic trip!
I Totally fell in love with this band the first time I heard them. Had the absolute pleasure of swinging with them here in Richmond VA back in the day!!! I still give them credit for being the Best Swing Band I've ever heard live,. They came out and grabbed the audience from the start and Never let go!!!
I was in a very blah mood today, not really feeling much of anything. Then this came onto my recommendations and now my mood is instantly lifted. LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!
I had Stive Perry in my French class at Lane CC in Eugene, Oregon for two years and I never knew until the last days of our class that he was the singer of Cherry popping daddies. Greetings from Mexico Steve. Je m'appelle Gilbert.
It was so fun when these swing bands were all the rage in the late 90's! Yeah, I got my finance to agree to take a swing dance class with me. Except...oops! I got pregnant! LOL And we are still happily married. Now that kid and his little brother are tall enough to be dance partners! Not sure if they'd take a class with mom as their partner, though. But who knows? That could be a blast even now! As long as we get home by 10 PM cause that's my bedtime;) Yay for TH-cam and easy access to whatever music you want to listen to! Love big band swing!
Laura S I'm gonna be 19 in like a week, and I honestly don't like hip-hop like most of my generation, I love swing and electro swing though. I wanna have a swing wedding myself, I hope my future fiancé would be up for it.
Until recently I didn't know that this song was actually about an event that took place the "zoot suit riots" actually happened a long time ago when sailors and "zoot suits" clashed and fought because the sailors were considered clean cut and the good guys... and the "zoot zuits" were considered hippie types and hoodlums ....
@@davidmaclane5487 yes, I know... but in Los Angeles at that time, many got into that look, including black and white guys..... I remember going to clubs here in texas in the early eighties and seeing the pachucos... it was a sharp look, no drama or anything, just everyone having a good time at the club
Cherry Poppin Daddies are awesome! Holding it down for Oregon! This is a song that I have to listen to about three or four times in a row just about every single time lol
Just sitt'n here in Brookings, Or...Lossing my mind and everything else..."Just about every single time lol," in the rain, and the pain, My cat is the only thing I care about losing...
The Zoot suit must have a spring board. The way he got back up from the split, I thought that was impossible to do without help from the hands. That was fly as fuck.
Georgia '97. I am thinking their wont be a whole lot of people who remember this music before too long. I like to put stuff like this on for my kids and have them thinking I am super old.
This artist, and this specific song is what really caught my attention and made me love jazz/ swing music.. way back when music wasn't as much of an algorithm designed to make money for people other than the artists
I always thought about this song, but never knew the name because I was so little. It was such a unique song, and truly a hidden gem of the 90s. I'd love to hear a song like this every now and again on the radio, just something totally different.
Shelly, I thought the same thing lol. I love the duality. Reminds me an all age karaoke bar my kids and I would go to. The elderly KJ scolded me for asking to sing Tenacious D’s “Tribute”, because they say, “rrrrich muthafucka” very briefly at the end. He refused to let me sing that song. I kid you not; the next people to sing were a mom and her two kids who weren’t older than ten. What song did they sing, “Save a horse, ride a cowboy.” Perverse is okay, as long as you’re not cussing or talking about drugs or alcohol 🙄.
I had been in Oregon, 1998 to study English then. Long ago... I wish I could see his mom, I got a CD of this band from his mom. Time flies. I loved Eugene, Oregon. I wonder if his mom still lives there in Eugene, Oregon.
Love this. Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing" came on the radio the other day and I almost lost my mind. Go daddio. Now I have to go watch Swing Kids and The Cotton Club, asap.
@ray h. yeah when the airport was under NATO control the accommodate was an ISO container with 2 x people. Each person had 1 x desk 1x wardrobe, 1 x chairs. Shared shower n toilet x4
The drummer in this band, Tim Donahue toured as Yngwie Malmsteen's drummer. He also is a good friend of Dave Bach of Mr. Wizard in the Springfield Eugene area of Oregon. He plays with Bach in Mr. Wizard and the Zydeco band called Etouffe. He also plays in 2 other bands here. One of the best drummers on the planet.
This video reminds me more of cartoon when Tom makes a Zoot suit out of a hamack and becomes the Zootsuit and 88î cat from Tom n Jerry then it does of the Mask,
I was I high school when this came out. A friend of mine and me were in "Guys And Dolls" the year before and we learned a swing dance routine for the Jitterbug dance. We heard CPD at a concert the next year and danced the routine..it provided quite a fond memory. Love ya' Carla!
@madskitz305 Actually, he's more or less correct. In traditional jazz/swing, the bass drum is mainly used as an accent or as means of straight timekeeping (four-on-the-floor). All of the '90s "neo-swing" bands make the beat faster and heavier, with less emphasis on the cymbals, so it's easier to dance to.
it has a bit. there's a genre called "electro swing" but it's mostly made by sampling/remixing studio DJs. however, there are some live acts like Swingrowers, Good Co, Caro Emerald's first album, etc.
Zoot Suit Riot was another one of my favorite one-hit wonders. It was just so great. Everyone Call Me Maybe, What Makes You Beauiful, and Somebody I Used to Know now as the best one-hit wonders, give me a break. This is the real deal.
lol I was in high school when this came out. There were a select few who were into this for about a few months. The stand up bass on this song is rockin!
I don’t remember the music from the ‘90’s”. I was too busy looking for the fountain of middle age. I remember the music from the ‘50’s, ‘60’s, and even a little from the early ‘70’s. I still think I’m a young man but pretty soon my clothes will be retro for the third time. Good times back then. I was in a band but hey, EVERYONE was in a band! I grew-up in a small town and there must have been at least a dozen or more bands in our town (Elmo Lincoln, Last Day Band, Zendicks, Bill & the Kids, Double Image, and so many more I can’t remember. I remember the kids from back then… some I knew, some I knew of, and some as friends of friends. Most have died from old age.
I was 21 or so when the swing revival and cigar smoking were popular. So yes, I miss those long ago days. The 21st century has been one 1/5 century long disappointment so far.
I heard this song today on SiriusXM's Lithium station. It was a hit song during the '90's and a song I could picture American Idol's old season five crooner trio of Will Makar, David Radford, and Kevin Covais singing!
The Zoot Suit is a suit with a knee length coat. The coat and pants were pinstriped, and the suit was worn with a silver chain and color matched Fedora hat. These days, the Zoot Suit is now a Tuxedo style.
I used to listen this when I was little, I found it in my big brothers CD collection. I'm 19 no and I now realize why my parents had such a problem with the band name.
Yeah, I think parents weren’t cool with the band name, and the content of the song. It’s too bad because the sound of the song is so energizing! People want music to be rebellious,,,,,as long as it’s the type of rebelliousness that’s “okay.” LOL.
True story - About 10 yrs ago, I was blasting this song in my car one day when I was sitting at 202 and 1(in Pennsylvania) at a red light....This 70yo woman looked back at me with the biggest smile on her face....I waved at her, she waved back at me, and that's all that needed to be said. Every generation has it's "good ole days"...and that day we overlapped....it was one of the most awesome moments ever.
couldnt she have just been being polite? seems a simpler conclusion than she was approving of the youngsters music choice because she is just so old that she knows that music...
@@Cristian-vm1bg The funnier thing is this wouldn't even be music a 70 year old woman would listen to in the "good ole days", as it was released in 1997.
Nick Ballas lol. Apparently you just can’t look too closely at TH-cam ‘feel good’ stories. They just fall apart
@@nickballas4729 its swing thats prob what she heard not recognize the song lol
@@Cristian-vm1bg I guess you have no idea why they called the 1920s, the swinging 20s...
I wonder why the swing revival of the 90's was so short lived. I loved it!
The latin craze of 1999.
@Joe Blow i'm glad people are seeing the patterns, at least. why in the hell are we here?
Did the women go to Mexicans for love or American sailors. A short little Mexican with a huge head was kicking it to a hot american woman with legs that went on forever. She tells.him aremt you a little to short.to kick it to a woman like me . Mexican says best perfumes come in small .packages she says yeah But not with that big ass cap/cranium
Jesus christ how do you balance that head.
@Joe Blow I take it you do not even know what the zoot suit riots were?
They were essentially riots over bagging clothing wore by Mexicans and other minorities. US servicemen and other whites would attack them claiming it was a waste of fabric.
It was just a cover to be racist douchebags.
Learn your history.
@@SlayerofFiction wtf are you talking about? He was referencing the short-lived swing craze in the 90s not the riots. You seem a little antsy to posture against "racism".
My principal was the sax in this band, though he did quit the band soon after this song came out. He was a great man and hysterical. I miss him so much, he died two years ago after a long battle with cancer. :I
haha
😂😂😂
sup he was my principal too
Yeah, well I was the trumpet plunger.
Your principal was in a band called “Cherry Poppin’ Daddies”? Sounds suspect.
This video is so authentic to the swing era it’s even in 60p
Yup....u gotta love potato quality videos....
Anybody else remember the swing craze of the mid 90's?
obligatory parks and rec reference
***** That's awesome. Was it really like the movie Swingers? I remember it but didn't "live it".
I loved it...too bad it only lasted about 5 minutes.
no
Swing is coming back, in the form of electro swing, which mixes electronic music and hip hop with live instrumentals.
Is it just me or is this song SMOKIN!!!
I got that reference
This song is the shit!
That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this video
No just you bud:)
This has always been fire!!
we did this for our school jazz band and we got 6 standing ovations. will never forget this song!
Wow, did you ever decide to take the song away from school and play it in a party band?
wish the mid 90's swing craze would come back.
the '20s will be here soon.
Please god no.
Groups are still out there.....
IT’S TIME
Start a band get it cool again I love swing. Electro swing is pretty awesome too.
Late 90s thru 2001 was just the best EVER. So lucky I was having a blast with all this music/dancing back then...it was gone in the blink of an eye. Still can’t believe it happened... 👠👞👒🕶👗
My mom welcomed this song and the 90s swing craze; her being Chicana she didn’t think she’d like a song called “zoot suit riot” but the music and the fashion reminded her of her grandma playing it around her growing up.
There was a question about the Zoot Suit riots on my AP US History exam today. This song popped into my head and I got it right. Thanks for the college credit Cherry Poppin Daddies.
One of my favorite songs about one of my favorite subjects. I love American history, I love Mexican history, and I love when the two come together... even in a tragic manner as the Riots, it's still interesting to learn about.
I don't recall the Zoot Suit brawls as tragic (no tragic stories anyway).. Mostly it was jealousy, war time sailors with money competing with the local boys for girlfriends.
It was more fun than vicious.
@@bluskies1000 This comment is a decade old
@@bluskies1000 They literally strip and beat people of color ... wdym not tragic?
One eyewitness, writer Carey McWilliams, painted a terrifying picture:
“On Monday evening, June seventh, thousands of Angelenos … turned out for a mass lynching. Marching through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, a mob of several thousand soldiers, sailors, and civilians, proceeded to beat up every zoot-suiter they could find. Street cars were halted while Mexicans, and some Filipinos and Negroes, were jerked out of their seats, pushed into the streets, and beaten with sadistic frenzy.”
@@dementis93bro came out of nowhere with an opinion no one asked for 💀
"Who's your daddy? Yes I am."
Best part haha that's hilarious
@Lil Hale-Weaver-Shannon THanks for reminding me of this comment 7 years later!
@@Hulavuta here to remind you of this reply 2 years later
@@Tobyodd thank you
@Hulavuta so 7 days later?
@@Pikaclev that's good too!
360p, we meet again.
240p
+nemo skull This was shot in 1997. What did you expect?
LOL, it would be nice to see a clean copy that wasn't re-recorded with a potato, but then it would probably get blocked on TH-cam.
This song and video quality are so late '90's!
144p too lmaooo
This takes me back...my dad loved these guys....miss you dad...
I wish I was back in those times 😅
@@That_RedRunner you and me both...give almost anything to go back and hang with my dad one more time...
@@mojojojo548 amen, I wish there was a way to go back. 😓
Would be fun...re-live your childhood again...or right any wrongs...or fix regrets...but that also poses a risk...cause maybe those regrets or wrongs that you did were supposed to happen...everything happens for a reason...
@@mojojojo548, true. Heck, why relive life even though you have one life? Use it wisely my good freind, your life is on the line and is waiting for your call in choices, 😉
I bought the CD back in the '90's and still have it. I played the CRAP out of this on drums, and still will! Now I'm into the trumpet, and soon also the trombone and piccolo trumpet, and also have a 1958 Wurlitzer model 700 electric piano I am restoring, so it looks like I'll be adding keyboard into the fray as well! And to think, in 2011, I had NO IDEA how to READ MUSIC! I only played drums, did that well, and still do, even as an incomplete paraplegic in a wheelchair (which I think adds a real 'cool factor' to playing drums!) and am now learning to play trumpet! Life is GOOD! This stuff ROCKS! Big band music KICKS ASS!
You sir...are an inspiration...time to break out my guitar again ^_^
It's not exactly "big band"....this is just swing music, a modern interpretation clearly inspired by the real Big Band stuff from the 1930's and 1940's. It's good, just not quite the same.
justforever96 It sucks. Period.
Fred Gregg for you maybe. I enjoy it a lot.
wow. it's all "I, me, my" with you isn't it. get over yourself. didn't get enough attention as a kid?
The Daddies put on great shows!! Lead singer was such a showman.
We went every time they played in Portland. My best friend from HS dated the keyboard player in college. Good times!!
i am so glad someone has the balls to bring big band swing back i love this type of music its toe tappingly tragic
💯
Songs that live rent free in my head
We just performed this in the town of etzatlan in our Foklorico performing arts company and those people loved everybit of our zoot suit riot viva la musica y cielito lindo de Perris CA
We’re playing this in jazz band at school and I really like it. I had no idea this song was from the 90s!!
I wish these guys had more popular hits... they are great
Great song, that drum breakdown in the middle is soooo good
The drums are fun, the call-and-response between scat singing and the horns is really really fun.
hey! Note to user who posted this thank you I’ve been searching for this song ever since I can remember I did a dance to it when I was like 12 years old so thank you for the nostalgic trip!
Swing music was so powerful, that heart beat strong 60 years later!
I Totally fell in love with this band the first time I heard them. Had the absolute pleasure of swinging with them here in Richmond VA back in the day!!! I still give them credit for being the Best Swing Band I've ever heard live,. They came out and grabbed the audience from the start and Never let go!!!
Edward James olmos...zoot suit
God I love this song. It never gets old. This song needs to come back
I was in a very blah mood today, not really feeling much of anything. Then this came onto my recommendations and now my mood is instantly lifted. LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!
We need this music. What happened to them?
I had Stive Perry in my French class at Lane CC in Eugene, Oregon for two years and I never knew until the last days of our class that he was the singer of Cherry popping daddies. Greetings from Mexico Steve. Je m'appelle Gilbert.
It was so fun when these swing bands were all the rage in the late 90's!
Yeah, I got my finance to agree to take a swing dance class with me.
Except...oops! I got pregnant! LOL And we are still happily married.
Now that kid and his little brother are tall enough to be dance partners!
Not sure if they'd take a class with mom as their partner, though. But who knows? That could be a blast even now! As long as we get home by 10 PM cause that's my bedtime;)
Yay for TH-cam and easy access to whatever music you want to listen to!
Love big band swing!
Laura S I'm gonna be 19 in like a week, and I honestly don't like hip-hop like most of my generation, I love swing and electro swing though. I wanna have a swing wedding myself, I hope my future fiancé would be up for it.
BuddyBro15 it just means you are awesome.
Good taste!!!
Fat Pie Seriously? Watch how that comment goes right back around to you in real life. You never tell someone to consider suicide.
@TheSpiritedDrifterVlog Agreed, completely uncalled for. I reported it for harrassment. Obviously just a pathetic troll who hates Iau S's enthusiasm.
This band used to play at my job during the 90's. I worked at the Off Ramp, in Seattle. Such good times!!!
The swing music of the '90s is still alive to this Day You just got to look for it
I got caught up in the Big Band Swing craze in college. I had so much fun!
Until recently I didn't know that this song was actually about an event that took place the "zoot suit riots" actually happened a long time ago when sailors and "zoot suits" clashed and fought because the sailors were considered clean cut and the good guys... and the "zoot zuits" were considered hippie types and hoodlums ....
Yeah ,and the news are biased about Mexicans ,
The Zoot Suit crowd were former Mexican Pachucos, now called Cholos
@@davidmaclane5487 yes, I know... but in Los Angeles at that time, many got into that look, including black and white guys..... I remember going to clubs here in texas in the early eighties and seeing the pachucos... it was a sharp look, no drama or anything, just everyone having a good time at the club
It was because the suits were using materials that were being rationed due to the war.
@@raygordonteacheschess5501 that and racism
If MTV had a swing channel in 1997, this would be the #1 rated video back then.
Ah I believe it was
Cherry Poppin Daddies are awesome! Holding it down for Oregon! This is a song that I have to listen to about three or four times in a row just about every single time lol
Just sitt'n here in Brookings, Or...Lossing my mind and everything else..."Just about every single time lol," in the rain, and the pain, My cat is the only thing I care about losing...
Dude I'm an Oregonian and I love these guys! Been a huge fan for years and so glad to see another Oregonian staying true to the music!
LovelyCheesePizza mi
Same. On my 5th now
The Zoot suit must have a spring board. The way he got back up from the split, I thought that was impossible to do without help from the hands. That was fly as fuck.
this song takes me back to high school class of 98 right here!!!
iowa boy here, class of 98. these were the days before the world weighed in on life
Ditto!!
Georgia '97. I am thinking their wont be a whole lot of people who remember this music before too long. I like to put stuff like this on for my kids and have them thinking I am super old.
Hooray for 98! Same class here!
Woo-Ho! Shwang...thanks, I needed that, tough day....and I just got up...da-amn! Friggen' Zip-Smack, one more time boys, love that feel good music.
This artist, and this specific song is what really caught my attention and made me love jazz/ swing music.. way back when music wasn't as much of an algorithm designed to make money for people other than the artists
A wonderful musical pick-me-up; the choreography is joyous- many thanks!!!
the song has a dark history
We play this in our high school pep band. Absolute bop
This song has always brought my mood up 💯% I don't know what made me pull it up 7:30 on a Friday morning but I'm glad I did
Timing is EVERYTHING
Saw these guys live a number of times.. so much fun! cheers
I always thought about this song, but never knew the name because I was so little. It was such a unique song, and truly a hidden gem of the 90s. I'd love to hear a song like this every now and again on the radio, just something totally different.
Try Aronchupa, also Caro Emerald but she's a little more lounge music than actual swing.
This period of music could never last but damn it was fun while it lasted, between about 97 until roughly 2001 swing was king again.
I remember they performed this live on Nickelodeon and censored "beer" lol
Huh. How did they introduce them then? "Coming to the stage now, it's the Eat Your Fruits and Veggies Fathers!"
I'll be laughing at this comment for the rest of my life.
"Beer" was reel big fish!!!! Lmmfao
For some reason doing the split as a man is gayer then gay.but this guy in a Zoot suit makes it look cooler then Kool.
Shelly, I thought the same thing lol. I love the duality.
Reminds me an all age karaoke bar my kids and I would go to. The elderly KJ scolded me for asking to sing Tenacious D’s “Tribute”, because they say, “rrrrich muthafucka” very briefly at the end. He refused to let me sing that song. I kid you not; the next people to sing were a mom and her two kids who weren’t older than ten. What song did they sing, “Save a horse, ride a cowboy.” Perverse is okay, as long as you’re not cussing or talking about drugs or alcohol 🙄.
My guy worked at Cafe Zenon in Eugene with the sax player in 1991 before the band hit big! great days!
Omg love the jazz and everything
i remember this when it came out i liked it and now again. thanks for posting. Must be a powerful song to bring out so much ugly in people.
long live the 90's.
Sarah Gregory whats good bitch
80s too
Grapefruit diet, throw out the bagels and beer.
+Boyd W IT FUCKING WORKS
+Gus Porterhouse no shit it's Weird Al
LMAO awesome reference. I like weird als version better.
Now that's a new parody that should be recorded.
It already is a parody by Weird Al Yankovic
I had been in Oregon, 1998 to study English then. Long ago... I wish I could see his mom, I got a CD of this band from his mom. Time flies. I loved Eugene, Oregon. I wonder if his mom still lives there in Eugene, Oregon.
Love this. Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing" came on the radio the other day and I almost lost my mind. Go daddio. Now I have to go watch Swing Kids and The Cotton Club, asap.
This song is timeless.
One of my most loved Neo Swing tracks. Of course, I bought the album.
I was looking for this song for awhile. Just as good as I remember.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane 😀
First heard this in my room at kabul international airport. Brilliant tune and introduced me to some new amazing music and bands
@ray h. yeah when the airport was under NATO control the accommodate was an ISO container with 2 x people. Each person had 1 x desk 1x wardrobe, 1 x chairs. Shared shower n toilet x4
I really liked this song back in high school. Too bad the swing revival didn't last.
The whole entire album is fantastic.
Weren't they Big Bad VooDoo Daddies? 🎺🎷🥁🎙
@@DavidLLambertmobile i am not sure.
im playing this in band right now. its pretty cool
Same
+I Lunar I me 2
So am i
It's always fun to play. Played it in high school band several years ago. Kind of want to know. I still have my trombone!
SamuraiBatgirl haha, if your still looking I have the music for first trombone
this was a fun time in the late 90's- i went to few clubs to watch people dance- it was a blast
My band teachers friend played trumpet in this album
My band and I played this song in high school in Italian. Then when I got married we danced to this song. It follows me anywhere
The drummer in this band, Tim Donahue toured as Yngwie Malmsteen's drummer. He also is a good friend of Dave Bach of Mr. Wizard in the Springfield Eugene area of Oregon. He plays with Bach in Mr. Wizard and the Zydeco band called Etouffe. He also plays in 2 other bands here. One of the best drummers on the planet.
I had no idea Yngwie Malmsteen had any overlap with this, holy fuck.
I wish the 90s never ended. I'd give anything to go back
I love this song but now I was waiting for Jim Carry to pop our as the mask
Lol. That looked like him at the start
I was waiting for Tom from Tom n Jerry to show up at the door in a zoot suit. Anybody remember that episode of the zootsuit cat.
This video reminds me more of cartoon when Tom makes a Zoot suit out of a hamack and becomes the Zootsuit and 88î cat from Tom n Jerry then it does of the Mask,
How bout Tom from Tom and Jerry. The Zootsuit cat episode. The dude can really solo swing dance. He made the split by a male look cool.
The singer and the other guys are the Mexicans. The ones in the sailor uniforms are the American sailors.
I was I high school when this came out. A friend of mine and me were in "Guys And Dolls" the year before and we learned a swing dance routine for the Jitterbug dance. We heard CPD at a concert the next year and danced the routine..it provided quite a fond memory. Love ya' Carla!
We play this in pep band at school all the time and its one of my favorites
I didn't know Bruce Campbell had a swing band!
ha! i thought the same
+Landon Hill I am sure he got the band together just for this song
Bruce Campbell does own a house in Jacksonville, Oregon but that is just a coincidence.
IKR - always thought the lead singer could have been his brother 🤣
Bruce has a better chin
@madskitz305 Actually, he's more or less correct. In traditional jazz/swing, the bass drum is mainly used as an accent or as means of straight timekeeping (four-on-the-floor). All of the '90s "neo-swing" bands make the beat faster and heavier, with less emphasis on the cymbals, so it's easier to dance to.
Crazy... Ya'll should google the Zootsuit Riots in the 1940's. Makes the lyrics hit just a little bit more. Especially the beginning.
Yes I just discovered that too
That's funny. I'm 33, I was a kid when this came out. I always thought this was an old song. I didn't realize it had came out at the time.
Just did a solo of this at our school's Christmas concert. It was AMAZING.
TheOneWhoGotAway gonna take a guess and say that’s a lie
Swing needs to come back in fashion
Yes it does!
it has a bit. there's a genre called "electro swing" but it's mostly made by sampling/remixing studio DJs. however, there are some live acts like Swingrowers, Good Co, Caro Emerald's first album, etc.
NOOOO....
fuck no
To some of us dance addicts, it never went out of fashion!
Zoot Suit Riot was another one of my favorite one-hit wonders. It was just so great. Everyone Call Me Maybe, What Makes You Beauiful, and Somebody I Used to Know now as the best one-hit wonders, give me a break. This is the real deal.
The 90s had the best 1 hit wonders.
What Makes You Beautiful isnt a 1 hit wonder.
lol I was in high school when this came out. There were a select few who were into this for about a few months. The stand up bass on this song is rockin!
God I miss this fad. This needs to make a comeback.
To me, this song is like a tribute to the swinging 40's
Who's here from Bailey's recent podcast (if ya know ya know) 😂
Me! 😂
Me only cause it’s been a long time since I’ve heard this song my sister had all their albums CPD is a pretty good band.
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Yep!
LMAO ME💀
Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!! Seen them in Concert!!!!!!!!!!!! Powerfull !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm 71 Still Rock n Roll!!!!!!!!!! Got there CD Great Music 🎶🎵!!!!
I don’t remember the music from the ‘90’s”.
I was too busy looking for the fountain of middle age.
I remember the music from the ‘50’s, ‘60’s, and even a little from the early ‘70’s.
I still think I’m a young man but pretty soon my clothes will be retro for the third time.
Good times back then. I was in a band but hey, EVERYONE was in a band! I grew-up in a small town and there must have been at least a dozen or more bands in our town (Elmo Lincoln, Last Day Band, Zendicks, Bill & the Kids, Double Image, and so many more I can’t remember.
I remember the kids from back then… some I knew, some I knew of, and some as friends of friends. Most have died from old age.
I play this song on the trombone at my school. I've loved it and now I love it even more because I've heard the song its freaking awesome!
I play it for jazz band I do piano but before concert I do trombone
I got this song in my jazz band!
AWESOME!
ONE OF THE GREAT BANDS OF ALL! UPLIFTING SOUND! THANK YOU! XXOO
Wow.. I never expected to learn anything listening to this song. Thanks. :)
The drums in this song are awesome
Who's watching this during the Corona outbreak? #weathome
My boyfriend and I were just mentioning about this song earlier tonight. We had fun!
I was 21 or so when the swing revival and cigar smoking were popular. So yes, I miss those long ago days. The 21st century has been one 1/5 century long disappointment so far.
It's a rotten start to a decade, but we're in this together and we'll be stronger and wiser for it. Thank goodness for fun tunes.
Yup. Times are rough, and sometimes you just got to hear a swing band waaaaaiiiiiillll to get the night feeling right.
私は日本人だけどネオスウィングが大好き。アラジンの”Friend Like me”聴いてたら、思い出した！
This brings me back to my childhood. Specifically The Mask and 3rd Rock From the Sun.
Ah, that brief period in 1997 when my grandfather was cool
The Zoot suit is what makes his joints swerve like spaghetti.
LOL
Lol grandparents are always cool yo.
julian english You must be OLD. Grandparents are lame weirdos.
i think we were all blitzed that year
I heard this song today on SiriusXM's Lithium station. It was a hit song during the '90's and a song I could picture American Idol's old season five crooner trio of Will Makar, David Radford, and Kevin Covais singing!
This and the MTV video are both great.
Swing is amazing
Great song......and a nice social and historical whip
I saw these guys in concert in the 90's. All I remember is being creeped out by that little lead singer.
Without question...one of the greatest posts ever. One of my favorite songs of all times. One of the best bands.
This reminds me of my childhood yet is still incredible to listen to. Awesome CPD
The Zoot Suit is a suit with a knee length coat. The coat and pants were pinstriped, and the suit was worn with a silver chain and color matched Fedora hat. These days, the Zoot Suit is now a Tuxedo style.
THESATURNSSC1
I used to listen this when I was little, I found it in my big brothers CD collection. I'm 19 no and I now realize why my parents had such a problem with the band name.
Yeah, I think parents weren’t cool with the band name, and the content of the song. It’s too bad because the sound of the song is so energizing! People want music to be rebellious,,,,,as long as it’s the type of rebelliousness that’s “okay.” LOL.