Cherry Poppin' Daddies

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are a swing revival group popular in the nineties. The revival was mainly in the late nineties, but had been spawned by movies released earlier in the decade such as The Mask. The group was accompanied by such bands as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and The Brian Setzer Orchestra, the latter of whom was led by the frontman of Stray Cats. The Daddies were best known for their hit Zoot Suit Riot, which was named after an actual conflict which happened in 1943. The group was not reviving swing necessarily, but rather jump blues, a style commonly associated with Louis Prima and Cab Calloway and crucial in the transition from jazz to rock and roll in the early fifties. Weird Al Yankovic parodied them with his song Grapefruit Diet.