Please Return the Evening — the Cherry Poppin' Daddies Salute the Music of the Rat Pack is a tribute album and seventh studio (ninth overall) album by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on July 29, 2014 by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records.

A collection of loyal covers of songs performed or popularized by the trio of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. collectively known as the Rat Pack, Please Return the Evening was the first Daddies album not to feature original music by lead singer-songwriter Steve Perry, and the first in a trilogy of cover albums designed to showcase the Daddies' swing and jazz influences, subsequently followed by The Boop-A-Doo in 2016.

Please Return the Evening consists entirely of cover versions of songs performed and popularized by the "Rat Pack" of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr.. In stark contrast to the Daddies' previous studio albums, the album features no original material by Daddies frontman Steve Perry while also focusing exclusively on traditional swing and jazz music, without any of the ska, rockabilly or rock influences which typically make up much of the band's sound.

In interviews detailing the project, Perry described Please Return the Evening as "a total labor of love", explaining at great length the influence that the Rat Pack had on the Cherry Poppin' Daddies since the group's beginning, noting that the band regularly played covers from the Great American Songbook even during their earliest incarnation as a punk rock band: "[the Daddies would] be playing and the crowds would be jumping off the stage, and to chill everybody down we'd do a Sinatra tune or something...[that music's] always been in our quiver and we love that kind of vibe". Perry noted elsewhere, "I just find the easy breezy, warm evening sophistication feel of that music very attractive...so [this album] is just a nod to that side of us".

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