DADDY COOL CALLED IN THE BOOGIE MAN TO HELP THEM SCORE PLENTY OF CHICKS

DADDY COOL become an immortal australian rock institution in a mere six month period between July 1971 and January 1972 thanks to the australian charttopping debut album DADDY WHO?

DADDY COOL, which bore the quinessential aussie rock song EAGLE ROCK and the follow up single COME BACK AGAIN, as well as the shotgun follow up album SEX, DOPE, ROCK'N'ROLL: TEENAGE HEAVEN, which as the album title suggests, was a controversial and experimental dark tinged diversion away from the light hearted and predominantly pisstake doowop flavoured rock'n'roll of the debut.

With songs like a jazzed up cover of the boogie woogie classic BABY LET ME BANG YOUR BOX and SIXTY MINUTE MAN it's not hard to discern what the artistic brains of the band, ROSS WILSON and ROSS HANNAFORD, wanted more than anything else back then.

It certainly wasn't a dog (laugh). DADDY COOL wouldn't even last the year out, breaking up in August 1972, just over a year since their debut album.

Both Wilson and Hannaford would go on post-Daddy Cool to become members of the much more experimental outfit MIGHTY KONG, whose one and only album is best described as being a daring but unconvincing attempt to blend the blues rock style of BILLY THORPE AND THE AZTECS with the rudimentary progressive rock of Wilson and Hannaford's pre-Daddy Cool outfit SONS OF THE VEGETAL MOTHER, a band that sounded more like JEFFERSON STARSHIP than 50's rock'n'roll.

After MIGHTY KONG split up soon after the band's one and only album was released, it didn't take long for speculation about a DADDY COOL reunion to materialise into reality. In 1974, the re-united DADDY COOL recorded three new songs on the long defunct WIZARD record label - BOOGIE MAN, YOU NEVER CAN TELL (which is a Chuck Berry cover) and ALL I WANNA DO IS ROCK (PART 1).

BOOGIE MAN is the one Daddy Cool song post 1971 which re-captures the fun loving, effortless groove of the debut album, I rate it as my favourite Daddy Cool song besides EAGLE ROCK. Ross Hannaford sang lead vocals on this song, no doubt his dorky and square bear image was the perfect excuse for him to grab the microphone off Ross Wilson.