Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

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With the big football game this weekend, I thought it was only appropriate to feature a Ventura, California based swing revival band who played the 1999 Super Bowl halftime show ("Big Bad Voodoo Daddy"). 

Their name came from band leader Scotty Morris' meeting with blues great Albert Collins at his concert. Albert Collins signed Morris' poster "To Scotty, the big bad voodoo daddy."Morris said, "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 didn't really have a choice. I felt like it was handed down to me ("Big Bad Voodoo Daddy)." 

The band promoted their tribute to Cab Calloway called How Big Can You Get?: The Music of Cab Calloway, on Dancing With The Stars and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ("Big Bad Voodoo Daddy"). 

Similar to their contemporaries, The Brian Setzer Orchestra and The Squirrel Nut Zippers, their sound recalls the swing and jump blues of the 40s and 50s (i.e. Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller) but adds in contemporary genres like ska and rockabilly. Swing Revival (also called neo-swing) was especially popular in the 1990s and early 2000s ("Swing Revival").

LINKS:
Perhaps their best known song, "Go Daddy Go": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehtEFCuBD_8

This one really swings!, Jumpin' Jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWuZ0QBvlo

"Why Me?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKpVGKOa2xs

Tribute to Cab Calloway, "Minnie The Moocher": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5OpyFCBgWc

REFERENCES:
"Big Bad Voodoo Daddy." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bad_Voodoo_Daddy

"Swing revival." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_revival