‘Now listen! Huh, we’re steppin’ out. I’m gonna turn you ‘round. Gonna turn you ‘round once, and we’ll do the Eagle Rock’. With those few lines and a faultless guitar riff, a new era of Australian music was born. Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!, the album that gave “Eagle Rock”, “Come Back Again” and nine other slices of doo-wop, 50’s rock-n-roll and R&B inspired pop perfection a home has inexplicably never been issued as a stand-alone title on CD – until now.

Daddy Who? Daddy Cool! was placed #14 in the book The 100 Best Australian Albums by John O’Donnell, Toby Creswell & Craig Mathieson (Hardie Grant, 2010). The author’s noted; ‘DC encouraged hundreds of bands – whether it was the showmanship, the costumes, the ironic detachment or the interest in roots music – these themes surfaced throughout the 1970s and were all traceable to Daddy Cool. It’s certainly true to say that Australian music as we know it today started with the eagle rock.’

In addition to the original tracks being remastered by Don Bartley, the Daddy Who? Daddy Cool! 40th Anniversary Edition comes with four bonus tracks which were included on the Reprise Records international pressing. The artwork comes with all of the images from the original LP cover as designed by Ross Hannaford and Ian McCausland along with new liner notes by Ross Wilson, plus some vintage images from the Daddy Cool vault.

Daddy Who? You know who!