The last few days, I've been posting videos featuring Big Daddy, the group I liked that took contemporary songs and rearranged them so they sounded like they were recorded in the fifties. Big Daddy more or less disbanded a few years ago to the disappointment of a lot of fans. But I'm delighted to report that some configuration of the band has resurfaced with their version of the love theme from the movie, Titanic. Here they are, back from the dead for the second time. At least…
Here's a video of a live performance by Big Daddy — live somewhere in Orange County, it says. They took the hit by Foreigner, "I Want to Know What Love Is" and they rearranged and mashed it up with "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens — and look at what they got…
Here's another selection from Big Daddy, the group that took current hits (current at the time they were active) and mashed 'em up with fifties tunes. This is a music video they did of the song "The Land Down Under" when it was big on the charts. Only they didn't do it the way it sounded when it was on the charts…
I was a big fan of a musical group called Big Daddy that had a great gimmick: They'd take contemporary rock songs and rearrange them in fifties style. (They also played very fine replicas of fifties tunes in the fifties style. They could sound like anyone. One member of the band was a white guy who could imitate Little Richard so well, he was once hired to dub some vocals for the singer.) They came up with a little legend about being captured in Laos and held prisoner for years. Here — watch this short promo video…
Okay, you got the premise? Over the next few days here, I'm going to feature a few Big Daddy treasures, some of which I've embedded here before long ago. Here they are doing something quite different to a Barry Manilow tune. I like it better this way, don't you?