Artist · chart history
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Band Ventura United States Formed 1989
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy formed in 1989 in Ventura, United States. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has 24 chart appearances on 24 radio countdowns from 13 stations on RockLists, spanning 1998–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “You and Me and the Bottle Make 3 Tonight”, which appears on 6 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Big Bad Voodoo Daddy most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy started in Ventura, California, in 1989, with Scotty Morris on guitar and vocals and running the show. The name came from blues guitarist Albert Collins, who met Morris at one of his concerts and scrawled the phrase on a poster he signed for him; Morris decided the words had been handed to him and put them on the band.
While everybody else was plugging in, these guys went the other way, reaching back to the swing and jump blues of the 1940s and 1950s, with sharp suits of sound to match: a horn section with Glen Marhevka on trumpet, Karl Hunter on saxophone and clarinet and Andy Rowley on baritone sax, Dirk Shumaker on upright bass, Joshua Levy on piano, and drummer Kurt Sodergren, who along with Morris has been in every version of the band. They play their own swing originals as well as their own spins on the old stuff, and they do it with a wink and a snap.
"You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)" is the one that stuck, a sly, loping, finger-snapping shuffle, alongside "Go Daddy-O" and "Mr. Pinstripe Suit". They played the Super Bowl XXXIII halftime show in 1999 and they keep taking the show around the world.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You and Me and the Bottle Make 3 Tonight | 6 | #4 | – | 1998 | |
| 2 | You And Me And The Bottle Makes Three Tonight (Baby) | 9 | #33 | – | 1998 | |
| 3 | You and Me and the Bottle Make Three Tonight | 2 | #35 | – | 1998 | |
| 4 | You & Me & the Bottle | 1 | #58 | – | 1998 | |
| 5 | You & Me & the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby) | 1 | #56 | – | 1998 | |
| 6 | You and Me and the Bottle Makes 3 | 1 | #65 | – | 1998 | |
| 7 | I Wanna Be Like You | 1 | #672 | – | – | |
| 8 | You and Me and The Bottle Makes Three | 1 | #761 | – | – | |
| 9 | You and Me and a Bottle Makes Three | 1 | #896 | – | – | |
| 10 | You and Me and the Bottle Makes 3 Tonite | 1 | #493 | – | – |
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