Cherry Poppin' Daddies discography | |
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Studio albums | 10 |
Compilation albums | 2 |
Music videos | 9 |
EPs | 2 |
Singles | 5 |
Other appearances | 11 |
The discography of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, a Eugene, Oregon-based ska-swing band, consists of ten studio albums, two compilation albums, five singles and three demo EPs, among other releases.
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies were formed in 1989 by singer Steve Perry and bassist Dan Schmid following the disbandment of their garage rock group Saint Huck, releasing their debut album Ferociously Stoned in 1990 on independent label Sub Par Records. After finding cult success in the Pacific Northwest region, the Daddies established their own label, Space Age Bachelor Pad Records, self-producing and self-releasing 1994's Rapid City Muscle Car and 1996's Kids on the Street , the latter proving to be a minor commercial breakthrough on the heels of the mid-1990s third wave ska revival, earning distribution through Caroline Records.
In 1997, the Daddies signed with Universal Music Group subsidiary Mojo Records to release Zoot Suit Riot , a compilation of their swing material. Arriving at the onset of the late 1990s swing revival, Zoot Suit Riot became the band's most commercially successful release to date, selling over two million copies in the United States while its eponymous single became a radio hit. Following the commercial failure of their 2000 follow-up Soul Caddy , the Daddies were eventually dropped from Mojo and entered a hiatus, resurfacing in 2008 to independently record and release their fifth studio album, Susquehanna . In 2009, the band briefly joined indie label Rock Ridge Music to release the ska compilation Skaboy JFK and a re-release of Susquehanna. The Daddies independently released their sixth studio album, a swing/rockabilly double album entitled White Teeth, Black Thoughts , in 2013, followed by the Rat Pack tribute album Please Return the Evening in 2014 and the Cotton Club-era jazz tribute The Boop-A-Doo in 2016. The band's eleventh album, the ska punk-oriented Bigger Life , was released in the summer of 2019. Their twelfth album, the all-swing At The Pink Rat, was released on July 26, 2024.
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Ferociously Stoned | |
Rapid City Muscle Car |
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Kids on the Street |
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Soul Caddy |
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Susquehanna |
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White Teeth, Black Thoughts |
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Please Return the Evening — the Cherry Poppin' Daddies Salute the Music of the Rat Pack |
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The Boop-A-Doo |
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Bigger Life |
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At The Pink Rat |
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Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||||||
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US [2] | AUS [3] | NZ [4] | |||||||||||
Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies |
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Skaboy JFK: The Skankin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies |
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"—" denotes items which failed to chart. |
Title | Details |
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The Daddies |
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Vacationing in Palm Springs (split with Reel Big Fish) |
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Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
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US Airplay [8] | US Mod [8] | US Adult [8] | US Pop [8] | Aus [3] | |||||||||
"Zoot Suit Riot" | 1997 | 41 | 15 | 16 | 32 | 57 | Zoot Suit Riot | ||||||
"Brown Derby Jump" | 1998 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
"Here Comes the Snake" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"Diamond Light Boogie" | 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | Soul Caddy | ||||||
"I Love American Music" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | — | White Teeth, Black Thoughts | ||||||
"Gym Rat" | 2019 | — | — | — | — | — | Bigger Life | ||||||
"Diesel PunX" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"Yankee Pride" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"Faux Nice, Mock Fancy" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||||||
"Platform Shoes" | — | — | — | — | — | White Teeth, Black Thoughts | |||||||
"Switchin' to Glide" | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | |||||||
"Lowdown Appreciator" | 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | At The Pink Rat | ||||||
"Kingsized" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"Party Shake" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"Thrill Thing" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"Kings of Swing" | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||
"—" denotes items which failed to chart. |
Year | Title | Director | Album |
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1997 | "Zoot Suit Riot" | Isaac Camner | Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies |
1998 | "Zoot Suit Riot" | Gregory Dark | |
"Brown Derby Jump" | Jamie Caliri | ||
2013 | "I Love American Music" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | White Teeth, Black Thoughts |
"The Babooch" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | ||
"Huffin' Muggles" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | ||
2014 | "Doug the Jitterbug" | Jesse Locke | |
"Come Fly with Me" | Steve Perry | Please Return the Evening | |
"Fly Me to the Moon" | Steve Perry | ||
2015 | "Brown Flight Jacket" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | White Teeth, Black Thoughts |
2016 | "That Lindy Hop" | Steve Perry | The Boop-A-Doo |
2017 | "The Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line" | Steve Perry | Zoot Suit Riot: 20th Anniversary Edition |
2019 | "Gym Rat" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | Bigger Life |
"Diesel PunX" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | ||
"Yankee Pride" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | ||
2020 | "Platform Shoes" | Jesse Locke & Steve Perry | White Teeth, Black Thoughts |
"Switchin' to Glide" | Steve Perry | Non-album track |
The following are songs that did not receive a release on a studio or compilation album.
Year | Song | Source |
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1993 | "Nobody's Friend" – 5:17 | I-5 Killers, Volume 2 compilation (Schizophonic Records) |
"The Graduate" – 3:24 | Northwest Ungrunge compilation (Elemental) | |
1997 | "Sound System" (Operation Ivy)– 2:06 | Take Warning: The Songs of Operation Ivy tribute album (Glue Factory) |
1998 | "Butch the Gay Santa Claus" – 1:37 | Kevin and Bean: Santa's Swingin' Sack compilation (KROQ) |
"Cool Yule" (Louis Armstrong) | I'll Be Home for Christmas soundtrack | |
"Jump In The Line (Shake, Shake Senora)" (Harry Belafonte)– 3:45 | BASEketball: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Mojo) | |
1999 | "Brown Derby Jump" (live)– 3:22 | Jingle Ball '98: The CD (KFMB) |
"Zoot Suit Riot" (live)– 4:03 | ||
"Here Comes the Snake" (remix)– 2:56 | Three to Tango: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture (Atlantic) | |
"So Long Toots" (alternate recording)– 2:31 | Blast from the Past: Music from the Original Motion Picture (Capitol) | |
2001 | "Jake's Frilly Panties" – 2:48 | Exclusive fan club download on official website from 2001 through April 2006. A remixed version was later released on 2013's White Teeth, Black Thoughts . |
2019 | "Faux Nice, Mock Fancy" – 4:00 | A glam rock-styled demo which was released as an exclusive download with pre-orders of Bigger Life on Spotify. A re-recorded version was later released as a standalone single in January 2020. |
Kids on the Street is the third studio album by American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released in 1996 on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.
Soul Caddy is the fourth studio album by American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on October 3, 2000 by Mojo Records.
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are an American swing and ska band established in Eugene, Oregon, in 1989. Formed by singer-songwriter Steve Perry and bassist Dan Schmid, the band has experienced numerous personnel changes over the course of its 30-year history, with only Perry, Schmid and trumpeter Dana Heitman currently remaining from the original founding lineup.
Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies is a compilation album by the American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on March 18, 1997, by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. The album is a collection of swing and jazz-influenced songs from the band's first three studio albums, along with four bonus tracks recorded especially for this compilation.
The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching a peak from the early/mid to late 1990s. The music was generally rooted in the big bands of the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, but it was also greatly influenced by rockabilly, boogie-woogie, the jump blues of artists such as Louis Prima and Louis Jordan, and the theatrics of Cab Calloway. Many neo-swing bands practiced contemporary fusions of swing, jazz, and jump blues with rock, punk rock, ska, and ska punk music or had roots in punk, ska, ska punk, and alternative rock music.
Mojo Records was a California-based record label founded in 1995 by producer Jay Rifkin. It became a joint venture with Universal Records in 1996 and then sold to the Zomba Group in 2001, who placed it under their subsidiary Jive Records. The label has been largely inactive since Zomba was purchased and restructured under BMG in 2003, save for a few reissues of older material. The final releases from the label were Reel Big Fish's We're Not Happy 'til You're Not Happy and Goldfinger's The Best of Goldfinger in early 2005.
Stephen Henry Perry is an American musician, best known as lead singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist for the Oregon ska-swing band Cherry Poppin' Daddies.
"Zoot Suit Riot" is a song by the American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, written by vocalist and frontman Steve Perry for the band's 1997 compilation album of the same name on Mojo Records.
Susquehanna is the fifth studio album by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records on February 19, 2008 digitally, physically on June 10, 2008, and reissued by Rock Ridge Music on September 29, 2009.
Dustin Ross Lanker is an American keyboardist, known for his work as a member of the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and the ska punk band the Mad Caddies, as well as the singer-songwriter for the rock trio The Visible Men.
Daniel Joseph Schmid is an American musician, known for his work as the bassist and co-founder of the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Schmid was also part of the rock duo the Visible Men, and has worked with alternative rock musicians such as Black Francis and Pete Yorn.
Dana Conrad Heitman is an American musician, known for his work as the trumpeter for the Eugene, Oregon ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he has been a member since the band's formation.
Skaboy JFK: The Skankin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies is the second compilation album by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. The album was released in September 2009 by Rock Ridge Music. Like Zoot Suit Riot (1997), Skaboy JFK is a collection of the band's ska material, compiling tracks from their first five studio albums with four new bonus tracks.
"Diamond Light Boogie" is a song by American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies on their 2000 album Soul Caddy. It was the first and only single released off Soul Caddy and the Daddies' fourth and final single to be released by Mojo Records.
Jason David Moss is an American musician, known for his work as the lead guitarist for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he was a member from 1992 to 2010.
White Teeth, Black Thoughts is the sixth studio album by American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on July 16, 2013, on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.
"I Love American Music" is a song by American swing-ska band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released as the first and only single off their 2013 studio album White Teeth, Black Thoughts. Released digitally on May 20, 2013, "I Love American Music" marked the Daddies' first single since "Diamond Light Boogie" in 2000.
Please Return the Evening — the Cherry Poppin' Daddies Salute the Music of the Rat Pack is a tribute album and seventh studio album by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on July 29, 2014 by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.
The Boop-A-Doo is the eighth studio album and tenth album overall by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on January 22, 2016 by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.
Bigger Life is the ninth studio album and eleventh album overall by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, independently released on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records on June 14, 2019.