Topics: B : Big Daddy

Big Daddy records covers of hit songs to music taken from the 1950s. Examples of their work are Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" sung to the tune of The Token's "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" sung to Merle Travis's "Sixteen Tons". When they released their first album, What Really Happened To The Band Of '59 in 1983, they marketed themselves as having been captured by the Laotian revolutionaries for the last 24 years. Thus they were not familiar with contemporary musical styles.