If you are in the Dale Jones Courtyard at City Hall this evening, sniff deeply and treat yourself to a whiff of nostalgia.

Rock ‘n roll the way it sounded and smelled in the early days.

When the second half of the Summer Music Festival gets under way at 7 o’clock, Big Daddy will be on the stage, introduced by producer Gary Mandell.

This is not a one-man show.

Big Daddy actually is four Big Daddies, and they can walk to work this evening. They are based in Culver City, but performing in the Music Festival for the first time.

As the Los Angeles Times noted of this unique group four years ago:

“One of the great left-field surprises of the 1980s pop music scene came with the arrival of Big Daddy, a whimsical band that reimagined hits of the day as they might have sounded had they been recorded in the 1950s.

“The conceit was that the group’s members had been lost in a southeast Asian jungle for a couple of decades and had just found their way back to civilization, their passion for rock ‘n’ roll, as well as their musical vocabulary, unaltered a generation later.

“More than a gimmick, Big Daddy created new takes on pop and rock songs that were consistently inspired, illuminating and often hilarious.”