After Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies had their "run in the sun" a lot of the younger people took to swing music and researched the roots of what those 2 bands were playing. That led to rediscovery of people like Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Harry James, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers and all the big bands of the big band era.

I went to a Big Bad Voodoo Daddy concert in 1999 and there was a couple of kids about 22 years old who were TEARING IT UP on the dance floor. I went up to the bar and happened to be next to the girl of the couple and I complimented her on their dancing. I told her "This is the stuff your grandparents did in their day." She laughed and said "Not only did they teach us, they are the older couple that were on the floor right next to us." And there they were, Lindy Hop-ing with the best of them.

We had a band here briefly that played that music and I went to a couple of their shows and COULD NOT BELIEVE how the 20 somethings embraced the dancing of that era. And whenever I hear that music I wish I had been born in 1921 instead of 1951, because when I was in my 20s that big band swing that I love so much would have been the music of time when I was in my playing days and I likely would have followed the crowd and played the popular style of the time, just like I was a Beatles kid of the 60s.