{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Daddy Who?... Daddy Cool | type = studio | artist = Daddy Cool | cover = DaddyWho.jpg | alt = | released = July 2, 1971 | recorded = 1970−71 | venue = | studio = Armstrong Studios, Melbourne | genre = Australian rock, blues rock, doo-wop | length = | label = Sparmac, Warner/Reprise, Wizard | producer = Robie Porter | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Sex, Dope, Rock'n'Roll: Teenage Heaven | next_year = 1971 | misc = {{Singles | name = Daddy Who?... Daddy Cool | type = studio | single1 = Eagle Rock | single1date = May 1971 | single2 = Come Back Again | single2date = September 1971 }} }} '''''Daddy Who?... Daddy Cool''''' is the 1971 debut album by Australian rock band Daddy Cool.
== Release and promotion == Released in July, 1971 it was the first on Robie Porter's Sparmac label. It was also the first Australian-recorded album to make No. 1 nationally<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/en/daddycool/daddycool.htm |title=Daddy Cool |publisher=Howlspace |accessdate=2008-05-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080805055727/http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/en/daddycool/daddycool.htm |archivedate=2008-08-05 }}</ref> and it stayed at #1 for seven weeks. Smashing all previous sales records, it achieved gold status within a month, and an unprecedented 60,000 copies sold in its initial release. It went on to become the first Australian LP to sell more than 100,000 copies.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Music/Whos-your-daddy/2005/02/26/1109180122767.html |title=Who's your daddy? |newspaper=The Age |last=Blackman |first=Guy |date=2007-02-27 |accessdate=2008-05-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/news-ARIAhalloffame2006.htm |title=ARIA presents the 2006 ARIA Hall of Fame |publisher=ARIA |accessdate=2008-05-15}}</ref>
The album was originally issued in a textured cover and featured a cartoon rendering of band members by Melbourne artist Ian McCausland which became the group's logo. While Daddy Cool's guitarist, Ross Hannaford, was responsible for overall album cover design, McCausland created the band's graphics and much of their visual image.<ref name="Miles">{{cite web |url=http://www.milesago.com/Artists/daddy_cool.htm |title=Daddy Cool |publisher=Milesago |accessdate=2008-05-15}}</ref> The original songs on the album were written by guitarist and vocalist Ross Wilson except "Bom Bom", which was co-written with Hannaford.<ref name="APRA">{{cite web |title=Australasian Performing Right Association |url=http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |publisher=APRA |accessdate=2008-05-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080124161012/http://www.apra.com.au/site/public/searchworksresult.stm |archivedate=January 24, 2008 }}</ref> The rest of the album contained 1950s R&B covers - The Rivals' "Guided Missiles", Etta James' "Good Rockin' Daddy", Marvin & Johnny's "Cherry Pie", The Rays' "Daddy Cool" and Chuck Berry's "School Days".<ref name="Miles"/>
''Daddy Who?... Daddy Cool'' was also released in the US on the Warner/Reprise label and the band toured in support of its release. Two singles were lifted from the album: "Eagle Rock" No. 1 on the Australian national singles chart and "Come Back Again" which reached No. 3.<ref name="Kent">{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970-1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.</ref>
The album was re-issued in 1975 (with different sleeve under the title ''Daddy Who? Daddy Gold!'') on Wizard Records (also owned by Porter) and in 1982, with the original artwork but non-gatefold sleeve.
The Australian release on Sparmac Records contains different tracks to the US version on Reprise which was released five months later. The Australian album includes the tracks "Good Rockin' Daddy" and "Cherry Pie" not found on the Reprise edition which features "Flip", "Lollipop" and "Just As Long As We're Together" instead.
== Critical reception == {{Album ratings | rev1 = ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2000|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0195313739|edition=4th|page=692}}</ref> | rev2 = ''The Village Voice'' | rev2Score = C−<ref>{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=20 January 1972|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg23.php|title=Consumer Guide (23)|newspaper=The Village Voice|accessdate=10 October 2018}}</ref> }} ''Village Voice'' critic Robert Christgau reacted negatively to the band's take on 1950s rock and roll, writing in ''Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies'' (1981) that "imitating it isn't re-creating it—it's killing it."<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|year=1981|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=6670|chapter=Daddy Cool: ''Daddy Who? Daddy Cool?''|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|accessdate=10 October 2018|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/christgausrecord00robe_1}}</ref>
In October 2010, ''Daddy Who? Daddy Cool'' was listed at No. 14 in the book, ''100 Best Australian Albums''.<ref name="ODonnell">{{Cite book | title = 100 Best Australian Albums | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | authorlink1 = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | authorlink2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | authorlink3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = Prahran, Vic | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 }}</ref>
== Track listing == All songs written by Ross Wilson unless otherwise indicated.<ref name="APRA"/> ;Australian release :;Side one # "Daddy Cool" (Frank Slay, Bob Crewe) - 2:31 # "School Days" (Chuck Berry) - 3:03 # "Come Back Again" - 4:51 # "At The Rockhouse" - 3:42 # "Guided Missile" (Alfred Gaitwood) - 3:02 # "Good Rockin' Daddy" (Richard Berry, Joseph Bihari as "Joe Josea") - 2:21
:;Side two # "Eagle Rock" - 4:07 # "Zoop Bop Gold Cadillac" - 3:56 # "Blind Date" - 4:12 # "Bom Bom" (Ross Wilson, Ross Hannaford) - 2:34 # "Cherry Pie" (Joseph Bihari as "Joe Josea", Marvin Phillips) - 3:40
;US release :;Side one # "Daddy Cool" (Frank Slay, Bob Crewe) - 2:31 # "School Days (Ring Goes The Bell)" (Chuck Berry) - 3:03 # "Come Back Again" - 4:51 # "At The Rockhouse" - 3:42 # "Guided Missile" (Alfred Gaitwood) - 3:02 # "Flip" (Carl Green) - 2:26
:;Side two # "Eagle Rock" - 4:07 # "Zoop Bop Gold Cadillac" - 3:55 # "Blind Date" - 4:12 # "Bom Bom" (Ross Wilson/Ross Hannaford) - 2:34 # "Lollipop" (Beverly Ross, Julius Dixon) - 1:36 # "Just As Long As We're Together" - 2:32
==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== {|class="wikitable |- !scope="col"| Chart (1971/72) !Peak<br />position |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=81}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| 1 |}
===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" ! Chart (1971) ! Peak<br />position |- ! scope="row"| Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=423}}</ref> | 7 |}
== Personnel ==
'''Daddy Cool members''' * Wayne Duncan – bass guitar, vocals * Ross Hannaford – guitar, vocals * Ross Wilson – vocals, guitar, harmonica * Gary Young – drums, vocals
'''Additional personnel''' * Robie Porter – piano, steel guitar * Jeremy Noone – saxophone * Dave Brown – tenor saxophone, flute
'''Additional credits''' * Robie Porter – producer * Roger Savage – engineer * Ross Hannaford – cover design * Ian McCausland – cover graphics
== Release history == {| class="wikitable" !Format !Country !Label !Catalogue No. !Date |- |LP |AUS |Sparmac |SPL 001 |July 1971 |- |LP |US |Warner/Reprise |RS 6471 |November 1971 |- |LP |AUS |Wizard |ZL 214 |1975 |- |LP |AUS |Wizard |MID-160005 |1982 |}
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