Cherry Poppin Daddies

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are an American rock band formed in 1989 in Eugene, Oregon, by Steve Perry (lead vocals/guitar). While the band has gone through numerous personnel changes, only Perry, Dan Schmid (bass) and Dana Heitman (trumpet) remain from the original incarnation, with Perry and Heitman being the only two constant members throughout the band's twenty year history.

Conceived as a counter against the rising grunge movement of the Northwest, the Daddies played an unconventional lyric-driven mixture of punk rock, funk, ska and swing music, attracting a local cult following for their wild and frequently controversial performance art-like live shows. The band spent most of the 1990s touring extensively, releasing three self-produced multi-genre concept albums, with their 1996 effort Kids on the Street earning distribution by Caroline Records and appearing on Rolling Stone's Alternative Charts.[1][2]

The Daddies found international commercial success in the late 1990s as part of the short-lived swing revival movement, namely for their hit single "Zoot Suit Riot" and their major-label compilation album of the same name. Though the band received prominent media coverage and their album climbed to number one on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, eventually going double platinum,[3] by 2000, the Daddies' mainstream popularity declined with that of neo-swing. Following a short hiatus, the band regrouped in 2002 to continue touring and recording, independently releasing their fifth studio album, Susquehanna, in early 2008.