Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is a Neoswing band from Southern California. Her main singles include " Go Daddy - O", " You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight ( Baby ) " and "Mr. Pinstripe Suit ". The band has played in the halftime of Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999.
History
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was founded in 1989 in Ventura, California by frontman Scotty Morris. The band's name came about after the Morris blues guitar legend Albert Collins met at one of his concerts:
" He signed my poster 'To Scotty, the big bad voodoo daddy '. I thought it was the coolest name I ever heard on one of the coolest musical nights I ever had. So When it came time to name this band, I did not really have a choice. I felt like it which handed down to me. "
" He signed my poster with the words, For Scotty, the big bad voodoo daddy '. I thought it would just be the coolest name I 've ever heard, in one of my greatest musical nights. When I had to come up with a name for the band to me, I did not really have a choice. This name was determined as for the band "
Morris and Kurt Sodergren are the two founders of the band. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy have focused on the swing of the 1940s and 1950s and played in clubs and lounges in their early years these.
Early career: 1989-1996
After Morris in the 80s in punk and alternative rock bands, such as False Confession, a band of Nardcore scene played, he and Kurt Sodergren Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The band released two CDs, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Watchu ' Want for Christmas? under their own record label ( Big Bad Records ) before the big breakthrough with their songs " You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight ( Baby ) ", "I Wan'na Be Like You" and " Go Daddy -O " had after they were included in the soundtrack of the tragi-comedy Swingers.
Commercial success: 1997-2004
From then on they were at Capitol Records. There, they released the albums Americana Deluxe, This Beautiful Life, and Save My Soul. The band continued their tours, performances and albums releases. In 1999, she appeared in the halftime show of the Super Bowl, the Capital One Bowl in 2006 and served a few years as the house band for the ESPY Awards on ESPN. In addition, they released a version of the theme song of the sitcom " Rock from the Sun ", which was used in the 1999/2000-Saison.
Live performances and Return: from 2005
In recent years, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy many pop music programs of American symphony orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Atlanta Symphony. They wrote a new song for the movie " The Wild " and took one for the Christmas holiday special episode of "Phineas and Ferb " on. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy came also in the successful TV show "Dancing with the Stars" and on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on to their album How Big Can You Get? The Music of Cab Calloway imagine, a compilation of their interpretations of songs Cab Calloway from April 2009.
Discography
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy ( 1994)
- Watchu ' Want for Christmas? (1997)
- Americana Deluxe (1998)
- This Beautiful Life (1999)
- Save My Soul (2003)
- Everything You Want for Christmas (2004)
- How Big Can You Get? The Music of Cab Calloway (2009)
- Rattle Them Bones (2012 )
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Live (2004)
- You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight ( Baby ) CD single ( Interscope Records, 1999)
Miscellaneous
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy appeared in Night of the Living Doo, a special, absurd episode of Scooby -Doo.
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy played in the movie Swingers itself, in which she in the club, visit the the characters, a set of ( u &nsbp; with a " You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight ( Baby ) " ) play.