Yesterday, I posted a video of the 5 Neat Guys from SCTV and I said they were my favorite musical group. A reader of this site, Jeff Blair, wrote in to ask, "You like them more than Big Daddy?" And I thought, "No, I guess I don't."
For those of you who started following this site recently: Big Daddy was an L.A.-based group that took hit songs recorded (more or less) after the Kennedy Assassination and rearranged them to sound like they'd been recorded in the fifties. I thought (and still think) their records are very clever and very well-executed…and I'm sorry that the group seems to have disbanded. I have no idea if there's any chance to them reconvening.
You can sample some of their better work here, here, here and here. Their music can still be found on Amazon and Spotify (and I would imagine other places) but no matter how you search, you have to wade through a number of other recording artists with similar names. This is one of theirs.
Here's a video from what may have been their final performance. It was in September of 2017 and, yes, I was in the audience. This number, which never made it to any of their albums, is "Light My Fire," the big hit for The Doors, as it might have sounded if it had been recorded in early 1963 by Johnny Cash…