On July 13, 2023, the Daddies premiered the first single from an upcoming untitled album, “Lowdown Appreciator”. On November 30, the band premiered another new single, “Kings of Swing”, which was accompanied by the unveiling of the new album’s title – At the Pink Rat , its album art and…
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In an October 2022 interview, Perry revealed that he had spent much of the pandemic writing three albums worth of original material, including an all-swing album, a ska-pop-funk album and a psychobilly album.
On January 31, 2020, the Daddies released the standalone single “Faux Nice, Mock Fancy”, a glam rock-styled song recorded during the Bigger Life sessions. In a Facebook post announcing the single, Perry detailed that he planned to release various unreleased songs as singles throughout the year as he started work…
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On March 12, 2019, the Daddies premiered the first single and music video from Bigger Life on their YouTube channel, a ska punk song entitled “Gym Rat”, later followed by two additional singles and music videos for the songs “Diesel PunX”, a rockabilly-styled song influenced by the science fiction sub-genre…
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During this period, Perry was also occupied with the task of remixing and remastering the Daddies’ Zoot Suit Riot compilation, having re-obtained the rights from Jive Records in 2014. Speaking on the project, he lamented that production of Zoot Suit Riot had been rushed and that only first takes had…
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Initially, the Daddies announced that Please Return the Evening and The Boop-A-Doo would comprise two parts of a planned trilogy of cover albums designed to showcase the band’s swing and jazz influences. Although Perry revealed in a November 2016 interview that the Daddies’ third volume of cover songs would focus…
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The following December, Perry expressed plans on the Daddies’ official Facebook page to further explore the band’s swing and jazz influences with another cover album, this time centered on the hot jazz of the Cotton Club era of the 1920s and 1930s. Production on what would eventually be entitled The…
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During the initial writing and recording period of White Teeth, Black Thoughts , the Daddies began playing select shows billed as “The Cherry Poppin’ Daddies Salute the Music of the Rat Pack “, playing an equal mix of the band’s own swing songs as well as covers of songs popularized…
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While the Daddies dedicated most of the 2010s to playing and recording swing and jazz music, Perry first revealed in a 2014 interview with The Huffington Post that he had started writing new non-swing songs for the next original Daddies album, describing his ambitions of making a ” psychobilly /…
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In January 2014, it was announced that the Eugene Ballet had collaborated with the Daddies for production entitled Zoot Suit Riot , a dance show set to the music of and featuring live accompaniment from the band, featuring choreographed dance routines set to thirteen of the Daddies’ songs, ranging from…
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