{"id":21912,"date":"2026-08-13T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=21912"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:25:33","slug":"the-stray-cats-return-to-late-night-television-with-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon-august-18-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=21912","title":{"rendered":"THE STRAY CATS Return To Late Night Television With \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d August 18 Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit:\u00a0Suzie Kaplan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

?THE STRAY CATS<\/strong>\u2014all three original members Brian Setzer<\/strong> (guitar, vocals), Lee Rocker<\/strong> (upright bass, vocals), and Slim Jim Phantom<\/strong> (drums, vocals)\u2014will wrap the summer leg of their 2026 tour with an August 18<\/strong> appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon <\/strong>performing one of the legendary group\u2019s iconic hits. This marks the group\u2019s first live late night television performance in more than 35 years. Their last performance was in 1990 on The Late Show with David Letterman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later this year the band will return to the road with a month of fall dates kicking off November 9<\/strong> in Grand Prairie, TX<\/strong> with stops in Nashville, Charlotte, Orlando<\/strong>, Atlanta<\/strong> and more, before wrapping December 6 <\/strong>at Foxwoods<\/strong> in CT.<\/strong> The group\u2019s setlists will be highlighted by some of the <\/strong>iconic <\/strong>multi-million selling band\u2019s massive hits including “Stray Cat Strut,\u201d “Rock This Town,” \u201cRunaway Boys,” “(She’s) Sexy + 17,” <\/strong>and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the iconic\u00a0<\/strong>multi-million selling band\u00a0<\/strong>released two new tracks via\u00a0Surfdog Records<\/strong>:\u00a0the loud,\u00a0<\/strong>upbeat\u00a0\u201cStampede\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0which is unmistakably\u00a0The STRAY CATS<\/strong>\u00a0and their cover of Eddie Cochran\u2019s\u00a0\u201cTeenage Heaven.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0These songs mark the first new music in six years,\u00a0<\/strong>listen\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0and pre-order 7-inch \u201cold school\u201d 45 RPM vinyl record, available July 24.\u00a0Both\u00a0\u201cStampede\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0\u201cTeenage Heaven\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>were produced by\u00a0The Stray Cats,\u00a0<\/strong>mixed\u00a0<\/strong>by\u00a0Chris Lord-Alge,<\/strong>\u00a0and recorded at The Terrarium in Minneapolis, MN & Laguna Sound in Laguna Beach, CA.\u00a0\u201cStampede\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>was written by Brian Setzer, Peter B. Antonio, Wally Zober, Bert Salmirs, and Mike Himelstein, while\u00a0\u201cTeenage Heaven\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>was penned by\u00a0<\/strong>Jerry Capehart and Eddie Cochran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE<\/strong> STRAY CATS<\/strong>, the band that put Rockabilly music back on the record charts in the early ’80s, scored several big hits on both sides of the Atlantic thanks to a striking visual 1950\u2019s style brought \u201cup to date\u201d with exaggerated pompadours and colorful tattoos and as well as genuine musical chops that evoked the best players of rockabilly’s original heyday. Formed by guitarist\/vocalist Brian Setzer<\/strong>, upright bass player Lee Rocker <\/strong>and drummer Slim Jim Phantom <\/strong>in the Long Island town of Massapequa, NY, in 1979<\/strong>, the trio shared a love for Rockabilly music. After banging around New York for a few months, in the summer of 1980, and seeing a pompadoured kid on the cover of UK magazine NME, they hopped a plane to London where a rockabilly revival movement was just beginning to emerge. Their massive hits and videos include \u201cRunaway Boys,” “Rock This Town,” “Stray Cat Strut\u201d “(She’s) Sexy + 17,” <\/strong>and “I Won’t Stand in Your Way.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on The STRAY CATS<\/strong>, visit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Official Website<\/a> | Facebook<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credit:\u00a0Suzie Kaplan ?THE STRAY CATS\u2014all three original members Brian Setzer (guitar, vocals), Lee Rocker (upright bass, vocals), and Slim Jim Phantom (drums, vocals)\u2014will wrap the summer leg of their 2026 tour with an August 18 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon performing one of the legendary group\u2019s iconic hits. This marks the group\u2019s first live late night television performance in more than 35… Read More »THE STRAY CATS Return To Late Night Television With \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d August 18 Performance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21916,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912\/revisions\/21916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}