AND ONE MORE THING: Imagine how a...

AND ONE MORE THING: Imagine how a band versed only in the pop styles of the ‘50s would interpret “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” You don’t have to: Los Angeles-based Big Daddy, still claiming to have been taken prisoner during an early-’60s USO tour of Southeast Asia, has recorded just that. The album, coming out on Rhino on June 2 (it was 25 years ago that day that the Beatles’ released their version), is a “Sgt. Pepper” for the Eisenhower years. Among the highlights: the title tune done in the style of the Coasters, George Harrison’s mystical “Within You Without You” as a Beat poetry reading (dig those flute and bongos, man) and the topper, “A Day in the Life” as a hiccupy Buddy Holly medley--”I heard the news today, o-oh boy . . .”