Rapid City Muscle Car

Rapid City Muscle Car
Studio album by Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Released December 12, 1994
Recorded 1994
Studio Gung Ho Studios, Eugene, OR
Space Age Bachelor Pad Studio
Dogfish Studios, Newberg, OR
Genre Various
Length 53:53
Label Space Age Bachelor Pad
Producer Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Cherry Poppin' Daddies chronology
Ferociously Stoned
(1990)Ferociously Stoned1990		 Rapid City Muscle Car
(1994)		 Kids on the Street
(1996)Kids on the Street1996
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Professional ratings
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Allmusic[1]

Rapid City Muscle Car is the second studio album by American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released in 1994 on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.

Overview

Rapid City Muscle Car was structured around the Daddies' desire to create a stylistic concept album in which each track was composed as the total musical opposite of the last - "[whipping] the listener around as if he/she was...experiencing stylistic G-forces" - but remaining thematically coherent through interconnected lyricism following an abstract narrative.[2]

Delving into wider-reaching and more experimental territory than their punk rock roots, the result is arguably the Daddies' most musically eclectic work. Building upon the band's then-standard repertoire of swing and funk, Rapid City Muscle Car weaves between ska punk, rockabilly, country, psychedelia, big band and lounge. The album also makes extensive use of outside instruments, adding acoustic guitars, accordions, clarinets and vibraphones in addition to the band's keyboards and horn section. A full big band orchestra is used on "Come Back to Me", a cover song taken from the 1965 Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

"Come Back to Me" was later re-recorded for the Daddies' 2014 Rat Pack tribute album Please Return the Evening, featuring only the band's regular line-up as opposed to a full orchestra.

Track listing

All songs composed by Steve Perry, except where otherwise noted.

No.TitleLength
1."The Search"2:46
2."Sockable Face Club"3:46
3."Chrysalis"4:09
4."The Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line"3:34
5."Equus"3:33
6."Mister White Keys"3:08
7."Skyline Drive"4:20
8."Pink Elephant"3:42
9."Hazel, South Dakota"3:55
10."Lovers Understand"4:25
11."Johanna of the Spirits"3:05
12."Inertia Rhapsody"3:06
13."Bobby Kennedy"3:09
14."Come Back to Me" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner)2:40
15."The Impossible Dream"4:35
Total length:53:53

Previous availability

  • The same recording of "The Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line" (then titled "Ding Dong Daddy") was first released on a 1992 7" entitled The Daddies.

Personnel

Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Additional musicians
The First Church of Sinatra

Featured on track 14:

  • Tim Allums – trumpet
  • Mark Berney – trumpet
  • Dave Van Handel – trombone
  • Glenn Bonney – trombone
  • Wayne Conkey – bass trombone
  • Ross Warren – alto saxophone
  • Tim Willcox – alto saxophone
  • James Phillips – tenor saxophone
  • Richard Coon (Temple) – baritone saxophone
Production
  • Tracks 1 - 2, 4, 6 - 7, & 9 engineered and mixed by Bill Barnett at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, Oregon
  • Tracks 5, 8, 10, 12 - 15 engineered by Dana Heitman at Space Age Bachelor Pad Studio, mixed by Bill Barnett
  • Track 3 recorded at Space Age Bachelor Pad Studio by Bob Levy
  • Track 11 recorded at Dogfish by Drew Canulette

References

  1. ↑ "AllMusic Review - Rapid City Muscle Car". Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ 'Rapid City Muscle Car' www.daddies.com
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