Cherry Poppin

Cherry Poppin: Zoot Suit Riot

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 1998

This is one of the most exciting, swinging, and purely fun CDs I'd heard in a long time. The Cherry Poppin' Daddies take the rhythmic, hard-driving, dance hall swing style of the thirties and forties and dress it in nineties threads, capitalizing on the current renewed interest in ballroom dancing. This CD, Zoot Suit Riots: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, is actually a compilation of songs from three locally-released CDs, plus four new tunes. The program is ...