SCOTS’ increasing popularity created major label interest and they

SCOTS’ increasing popularity created major label interest and they signed to Geffen subsidiary DGC in 1995. The following year saw the first recorded version of ‘Camel Walk’ appear, on a Mexican wrestling-themed EP entitled Santo Swings! SCOTS’ first DGC album, Dirt Track Date featured re-recorded versions of popular songs from previous releases (‘Eight Piece Box’; ‘Camel Walk’; ‘Voodoo Cadillac’; ‘Firefly’) amongst new material, including ‘Soul City’. The album was a critical and commercial success, selling over a quarter-million copies. ‘Camel Walk’ and ‘Red Beans ‘n’ Reverb’ featured on the soundtrack to the 1996 movie Flirting with Disaster , while the band appeared in the 1997 movie I Know What You Did Last Summer , playing ‘My Baby’s Got The Strangest Ways’ in the opening beach party scene. SCOTS added keyboard player Chris ‘Cousin Crispy’ Bess to the line-up for the 1997 album Plastic Seat Sweat , creating a fuller, richer sound. Plastic Seat Sweat was also well-reviewed but Geffen were disappointed by sales, and they parted ways with SCOTS. Miller later commented that the record recouped its costs, but Geffen wanted ‘hits’ and offered contract renewal conditional on production of a radio-friendly song within the next 3 months, plus touring with ska-punk bands popular at the time. SCOTS declined.