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?