Back in the late eighties, I was an enormous fan of a musical group called Big Daddy, not to be confused with several other acts with similar names. This Big Daddy recorded for Rhino Records and they had a wonderful gimmick. What they did was to take current rock songs and then rearrange them to sound like fifties music. They were enormously skillful at this and in many cases, their versions of contemporary hits sounded better than the originals.
I dragged friends to their live performances and became pals with a couple of members. I even cast one of the members (Tom Lee, the guy with the great bass voice) for a couple of cartoon voice jobs. Alas, some time in the nineties — I'm not sure when — the group drifted apart and insofar as I can tell, all their albums and CDs are now outta print…though not hard to find on eBay or as used items on Amazon.
Here's a little music video that someone threw together using one of their records — their version of Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs." Don't you like it better their way?
