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"Zoot Suit" b/w "I'm the Face" was the first single of the British rock band the Who, who recorded it under the name the High Numbers in an attempt to appeal to a mod audience. [1] " Zoot Suit" was written by Peter Meaden , the band's first manager.
A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit [1]) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. It is most notable for its use as a cultural symbol among the Hepcat and Pachuco subcultures.
"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.
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Zoot Suit Riots. American Experience. A list of newspaper articles written about the Zoot Suit Riots. Images and primary source documents about the Zoot Suit Riots Archived July 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, from the University of California; Cosgrove, Stuart (1984). "The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare". History Workshop Journal. 18: 77– 91.
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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