Sandy Hawkins, ‘Daddy Didn’t Want Me to Sing’

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Sandy Hawkins (Katelyn Jean Hollowell)

Sandy Hawkins is not one person but three — Tom Banks, Keenan Brand and Tiger Smith, three songwriters-producers who call themselves an “Echo Park boy band” and whiled away their pandemic hours rekindling the faint flames of 1970s soft rock. Since smiles were hard to come by during lockdown, winking homages to yacht rock (and golden era party rap/R&B) worked just fine.

After debuting with four singles (including “Cherry Chapstick”) in 2020, the trio followed with a remix EP and more cheeky goodness.

“Daddy Didn’t Want Me to Sing,” out today, spins the tale of a woman running away from home to chase her Los Angeles dream. You can almost see the grainy footage of somebody clambering off a Greyhound bus, one suitcase in hand and guitar slung over her shoulder.

“Although this is not the Sandy Hawkins origin story,” the band says, “the three of us each have elements of our own lives that have contributed to this song and help paint the picture of heading to the big city in search of something more.”

||| Stream: “Daddy Didn’t Want Me to Sing”

||| Also: Check out the video for “Original Sins”

||| Previously: “Cherry Chapstick”