Vacationing in Palm Springs is a split

Split album

A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...

 7" from Californian ska punk

Ska punk

Ska punk is a fusion music genre that combines ska and punk rock. It achieved its highest level of commercial success in the United States in the late 1990s. Ska-core is a subgenre of ska punk, blending ska with hardcore punk.The characteristics of ska punk vary, due to the fusion of contrasting...

 band Reel Big Fish

Reel Big Fish

Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...

 and Oregon ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies

Cherry Poppin' Daddies

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are an American band established in Eugene, Oregon, in 1989. Formed by Steve Perry and Dan Schmid , the band has experienced many membership changes over the years, with only Perry, Schmid and Dana Heitman currently remaining from the original line-up.The Daddies' music...

, released in 1997 on Mojo Records

Mojo Records

Mojo Records was a California-based record label founded in 1995 by producer Jay Rifkin. It became a joint venture with Universal Music Group in 1996 and then sold to the Zomba Group in 2001, who placed it under their subsidiary Jive Records...

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Overview

Reel Big Fish's side includes a ska-funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

-disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 cover of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "There Is Nothing Like a Dame

There Is Nothing Like a Dame

"There is Nothing Like a Dame" is one of the songs from the musical South Pacific. The song was written by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is widely popular in the musical arts, often sung by men's choirs....

" from the 1949 musical South Pacific

South Pacific (musical)

South Pacific is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its...

. This cover was recorded for the soundtrack to the film Welcome to Woop Woop

Welcome to Woop Woop

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, later appearing on the band's Viva La Internet/Blank CD compilation.

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies side features two ska punk songs, "Hi & Lo" and "2:29". "2:29" was later used as a B-side to the "Zoot Suit Riot

Zoot Suit Riot (song)

"Zoot Suit Riot" is a song by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. It was written and composed by Steve Perry as a bonus track for the band's all-swing compilation album of the same name, and thus follows a musical style similar to 1940s jump swing."Zoot Suit Riot" is often cited as...

" single and as an additional track on the Japanese release of the album of the same name. Both tracks were later re-recorded, "Hi & Lo" for the Daddies' 2008 album Susquehanna

Susquehanna (album)

Susquehanna is the fifth studio album by American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records in February 2008, and later re-issued on Rock Ridge Music in September 2009....

and "2:29" for the 2009 compilation Skaboy JFK

Skaboy JFK

Skaboy JFK: The Skankin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies is a compilation album by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released in September 2009 on Rock Ridge Music....

, which also featured the re-recording of "Hi & Lo".

Two pressings of this split were made, the first on bright blue vinyl, the second on standard black.

Cherry Poppin' Daddies

1. "Hi & Lo" (Steve Perry
   Steve Perry (Oregon musician)
   Stephen Henry Perry is an American musician, best known for being the lead singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he is the founding member.-Early life:...
   
   ) - 3:28
2. "2:29" (Steve Perry) - 3:34

Reel Big Fish

• Aaron Barrett
  Aaron Barrett
  Aaron Asher Barrett is the lead singer, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter for the band Reel Big Fish. Prior to forming with Reel Big Fish, Barrett played trombone in another ska-punk act, The Scholars, along with future Reel Big Fish bandmates Scott Klopfenstein and Grant Barry...
  
   - lead vocals, guitar
• Grant Barry
  Grant Barry
  Grant Barry, from Seal Beach California, is the former trombone player of Reel Big Fish. Before he was in Reel Big Fish he was in The Scholars with Scott Klopfenstein and Aaron Barrett. He can be heard on the albums Turn The Radio Off and Why Do They Rock So Hard?, having joined the band prior to...
  
   - trombone
• Andrew Gonzales - drums
• Scott Klopfenstein
  Scott Klopfenstein
  Scott Allen "Scotty" Klopfenstein is an American musician and a former member of the band Reel Big Fish. He plays trumpet, guitar, keyboard, and sings....
  
   - trumpet, backing vocals
• Dan Regan
  Dan Regan
  Dan Regan is the trombone player for the Southern California-based ska punk band Reel Big Fish. Regan has also played trombone in The Littlest Man Band with Scott Klopfenstein and currently has a hip-hop side project under the alias Black Casper.- External links :...
  
   - trombone
• Tavis Werts - trumpet
• Matt Wong
  Matt Wong
  Matthew Wong, is a bassist and one of the founding members of the California-based ska punk band, Reel Big Fish...
  
   - bass

Cherry Poppin' Daddies

• Steve Perry
  Steve Perry (Oregon musician)
  Stephen Henry Perry is an American musician, best known for being the lead singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he is the founding member.-Early life:...
  
   - lead vocals
• Hans Wagner - drums
• Darren Cassidy - bass
• Jason Moss
  Jason Moss (musician)
  Jason David Moss is an American musician, known for his work as the lead guitarist for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he was a member from 1992 to 2010.-Early life:...
  
   - guitar
• Sean Flannery - tenor saxophone
• Dana Heitman
  Dana Heitman
  Dana Conrad Heitman is an American musician, known for his work as the trumpeter for the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he has been a member since the band's inception.-Biography:...
  
   - trumpet
• Ian Early - alto saxophone
• Glenn Bonney - trombone
• Dustin Lanker
  Dustin Lanker
  Dustin Ross Lanker is an American keyboardist, known for his work as a member of the ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, a touring member of the ska punk band the Mad Caddies and as the singer-songwriter for the piano rock trio The Visible Men.-Career:A pianist since childhood, Lanker...
  
  - keyboards on "2:29"
• Mark Alan - backing vocals on "2:29"