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".
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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
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.
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, 😉
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!!
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
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 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.
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
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 RU-vid 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.
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.
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 🙄.
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.
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,
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.
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!!!!!!
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Who's that whisperin' in the trees? It's two sailors and they're on leave Pipes and chains and swingin' hands Who's your daddy? Yes I am Fat cat came to play Now he can't run fast enough You'd best stay away When the pushers come to shove Zoot suit riot throw back a bottle of beer Zoot suit riot Pull a comb through your coal black hair Zoot suit riot throw back a bottle of beer Zoot suit riot Pull a comb through your coal black hair Blow Daddy! A whipped up jitterbuggin' brown eyed man A stray cat frontin' up an eight-piece band Cut me Sammy and you'll understand In my veins hot music ran You got me in a sway and I want to swing ya dove Now you sailors know Where your women come for love Zoot suit riot Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot suit riot Pull a comb through your coal black hair You're in a Zoot suit riot You're in a Zoot suit riot You're in a Zoot suit riot zoo zoot ziow zoo zoot za zoo zeh bleh abba yeeda zeh zeh zeh zoo zoot zi-i-i-ow zoo zoot za zoo zeh zeh zoo zeh zeh zoo day day day Oh you got me in a sway and I want to swing ya dove Now you sailors know Where your women come for love Zoot suit riot Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot suit riot Pull a comb through your coal black hair Zoot suit riot Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot suit riot Pull a comb through your coal black hair You're in a Zoot suit riot You're in a Zoot suit riot You're in a Zoot suit riot (I think I'm about ready to sing it)
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.
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
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!
Pretty sure it was this band where the lead singer got in a fight with the promoter at Manly in Australia at the Warped Tour, people were throwing the occasional clump of soil on the stage and the lead singer revved them up by saying "Throw shit" - should have seen how much shit was thrown then. Guess the promoter didn't like that. LOL
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.
This was about the actual Zoot Suit Roit. Dark History by Bailey Sarian will tell ya about this song. But true history non the less. It was made in the 90’s about the 20’s-40’s events. ALOT of songs we like are about history if we paid more attention to what they’re saying, this song was made like this since the Zoot Suit was just a bunch of underground Jazz lovers!
