I said here recently that my favorite musical group is Julien Neel. That's true but he only wins in the category of musical groups that only contain one person. Among musical groups that feature two or more people, my fave is still Big Daddy, The Band of '59.
Big Daddy, for those of you who don't know, operates on a simple, inarguable principle: That music in this country was way better before around the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Ergo, they take songs that were recorded after that calamitous period and rearrange them so they sound like songs recorded before November of '63…a most worthy endeavor.
For example, here's the music video for Michael Jackson's song, "The Way You Make Me Feel." Watch a little of it to remind you of that tune which starts about a minute into this video…
Okay, fine. Not a bad little number. I mean, 170,199,696 YouTube views can't be wrong. But I liked it better when it was Big Daddified into something more resembling the record, "See You Later, Alligator" by Bill Haley and the Comets. Here's how B.D. did that some years ago…
See? Much better. Big Daddy is still around, still sounding as great as ever. They're performing this coming Saturday at Alva's Show Room in San Pedro, California. I can't go but if you're anywhere near there, you can.