Background
By 1997, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies had eked out a living as a full-time independent band, having released three regionally successful studio albums and carving out a successful touring niche within the American ska scene at a time when the genre was just beginning to generate mainstream commercial interest.
While the Daddies were almost exclusively playing ska shows at this time, the coincident success of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and the 1996 film Swingers began drawing media attention towards the formerly underground swing revival movement. Before long, the Daddies were regularly attracting a separate and noticeably larger audience for their swing material, though soon came to realize the band lacked an album which fully represented this side of their music, and more so lacked the finances to record a new one. Singer-songwriter Steve Perry explained how the concept of a compilation came to be in an interview for The Daily of the University of Washington:
| “ | We didn't want to be a "swing band". What happened was that our manager said, "Everybody comes up and they ask me which CD has the most swing on it," - that's what we mostly played live - "and I don't know what the fuck to tell them because two of the CDs have the same amount and the other has less. So it's between these, and I don't know what to do. I swear to God, if you put all of those swing songs on one record, people would just shit. They would really want that, because how many people have all three Cherry Poppin' Daddies records?" "Well, none." "Well, yeah. There you go." And I went, "I don't think that a band from Eugene with three records could put a greatest hits record out." "Then record some new songs." We had talked about it for a while, and we decided to do it. And it was cheap. So we did it. | ” |
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