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First issued as a single in October 1997, "Zoot Suit Riot" slowly gained radio momentum with the commercial growth of the late-1990s swing revival before ultimately hitting its peak in the summer of 1998, reaching #41 on Billboard ' s Hot 100 Airplay chart and #15 on the Modern Rock chart, while a surrealist music video became one of MTV's most ...
In 1996, Valdez composed the original score to the IMAX documentary, Mexico. [4] [8] [12] In 1997, Valdez served as a musical consultant and a historical expert for the San Diego Repertory Theatre and Southwestern College's revival of Zoot Suit. [4] [8] [12] While he was at Southwestern, Valdez wrote his first original musical, Ollin. [4] [8]
[7] [12] Zoot Suit Riot was re-issued and given national distribution by Mojo on July 1, 1997, less than four months after its original release. By October 1997, the rising mainstream popularity of swing music had resulted in consistently steady sales of Zoot Suit Riot , motivating Mojo to release the album's title track as a single and ...
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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 ...
After emerging as a successful regional band and eventually becoming a consistent staple of the West Coast third wave ska touring circuit, the Daddies broke into the musical mainstream with their 1997 album Zoot Suit Riot, a compilation of swing songs culled from the band's first three albums.
"Zoot Suit" b/w "I'm the Face" was reissued in 1980 and reached #49 in the UK. "Zoot Suit" (short mono version) is the opening track from the compilation album The Who Hits 50! released in October 2014. Both songs were featured on the Thirty Years of Maximum R&B box set (short remixed stereo versions).
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