Zoot Suit Riot

Analysis of Zoot Suit Riot For my analysis paper I chose to analyze the song Zoot Suit Riot, one of the “swinging hits” of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. There music consists of swing and ska tunes. Zoot Suit Riot is a part swing and part rock song that made them famous. This song comes from the Daddies fourth released album named for their hit song. This album is a compilation of the rockin’ swing tunes …

…coast. The first time that I saw or even heard of them was at the Vans Warped Tour. Until now, this tour was mostly metal and hard rock, but now there was swing, this really took the Warped Tours crowd under surprise. Even though the Cherry Poppin Daddies weren’t the first band to bring back swing, I think that they did the best job in perfecting it, especially with the song Zoot Suit Riot.