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I’ll have to listen to the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies song again, didn’t realize it referred to an actual event, though the lyrics only really make vague references to sailors.
I know the lyrics to Grapefruit Diet much better, as is the normal case for me with Weird Al's songs
Zoot Suit Riot Cherry Poppin' Daddies Who's that whisperin' in the trees? It's two sailors and they're on leave Pipes and chains and swingin' hands Who's your daddy? Yes I am!
Fat cat came to play, now you can't run fast enough You'd best stay away when the pushers come to shove
Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) A-pull a comb through your coal-black hair Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) A-pull a comb through your coal-black hair Blow Daddy!
A whipped-up jitterbuggin' brown-eyed man Stray cat frontin' out an eight-piece band Cut me Sammy and you'll understand In my veins hot music ran
You got me in a sway, and I want to swing you dove Now you sailors know where your women come for love
Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) A-pull a comb through your coal-black hair
You're in a Zoot Suit Riot You're in a Zoot Suit Riot You're in a Zoot Suit Riot
You got me in a sway, and I want to swing you dove Now you sailors know where your women come for love
Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) A-pull a comb through your coal-black hair Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) Throw back a bottle of beer Zoot Suit Riot (riot!) A-pull a comb through your coal-black hair
You're in a Zoot Suit Riot You're in a Zoot Suit Riot You're in a Zoot Suit Riot
(I think I'm about ready to sing it.)
Google, what's a Zoot Suit?
From Smithsonian Magazine:
With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg leg pants, the zoot suit grew out of the “drape” suits popular in Harlem dance halls in the mid-1930s. The flowing trousers were tapered at the ankles to prevent jitterbugging couples from getting tripped up while they twirled. By the ’40s, the suits were worn by minority men in working-class neighborhoods throughout the country. Though the zoot suit would be donned by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong, it was “not a costume or uniform from the world of entertainment,” the Chicago big-band trumpeter and clothier Harold Fox once said. “It came right off the street and out of the ghetto.’’
Fox was one among many, from Chicago to Harlem to Memphis, who took credit for inventing the zoot suit—the term came out of African-American slang—but it was actually unbranded and illicit: There was no one designer associated with the look, no department store where you could buy one. These were ad hoc outfits, regular suits bought two sizes too large and then creatively tailored to dandyish effect.
To some men, the suit’s ostentatiousness was a way of refusing to be ignored. The garment had “profound political meaning,” wrote Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man. “For those without other forms of cultural capital,” says Peiss, “fashion can be a way of claiming space for yourself.”
Wartime rations on fabric made wearing such oversized clothing an inherently disobedient act. Langston Hughes wrote in 1943 that for people with a history of cultural and economic poverty, “too much becomes JUST ENOUGH for them.” To underscore the style’s almost treasonous indulgence, press accounts exaggerated the price of zoot suits by upwards of 50 percent. But even the real cost of one was near-prohibitive for the young men who coveted them—Malcolm X, in his autobiography, recounts buying one on credit.
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