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Zoot Suit" was written by Peter Meaden, the band's first manager. The song is a direct copy of "Misery" by the American R&B group the Dynamics , while the B-side, "I'm the Face", is a copy of Slim Harpo 's "I Got Love If You Want It." [ 2 ] The single was meant for a mod audience, but failed to chart. [ 3 ]
The tune for "Zoot Suit" was "Misery" by the Dynamics, [31] and "I'm the Face" borrowed from Slim Harpo's "I Got Love If You Want It". [32] Although Meaden tried to promote the single, it failed to reach the top 50 [ 33 ] and the band reverted to calling themselves the Who. [ 34 ]
The album keeps the Who tracks in the same order as the original double album and begins with the two High Numbers tracks. (Note: Prior to deciding on the name The Who they were called The High Numbers for a short period in summer 1964.) "I'm the Face" (The High Numbers) – 2:31 "Zoot Suit" (The High Numbers) – 2:00 "I Am the Sea" – 2:03
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"I Can't Explain" was the A-side of the group's first single as the Who; its predecessor, "Zoot Suit"/"I'm the Face," was released under the name the High Numbers. In the album's liner notes, Townshend noted the song's similarity to the contemporaneous hit "All Day and All of the Night" by the Kinks: "It can't be beat for straightforward Kink copying.
A zoot suit is a style of clothing first popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Zoot suit may also refer to: Zoot Suit, a 1979 Broadway play by Luis Valdez Zoot Suit, a 1981 filmed version of the play "Zoot Suit" (song), a 1964 song by the High Numbers, an alternate name for the Who
'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach Broadway. It changed Los Angeles' historical memory and the American theater forever
Valdez's first work that brought him attention to larger audiences was the play Zoot Suit which ran in 1978 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and played for forty-six weeks to more than 40,000 people. With Zoot Suit, Valdez became the first Chicano director to have a play presented on Broadway in 1979. In 1981, it was made into a film. [16]