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Showing posts with label Doo Wop [Various Artists]. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doo Wop [Various Artists]. Show all posts

Friday, November 4, 2022

Doo Wop - Discography- [Various Artists]

Doo Wop - Discography


Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music developed in the 1940s by African American youth, mainly in the large cities of the upper East Coast, including New York. It features vocal group harmony that carries an engaging melodic line to a simple beat with little or no instrumentation. Lyrics are simple, usually about love, ornamented with nonsense syllables, and often featuring, in the bridge, a melodramatically heartfelt recitative addressed to the beloved. Gaining popularity in the 1950s, doo-wop enjoyed its peak successes in the early 1960s, but continued to influence performers in other genres.

Although the musical style originated in the late 1940s and was wildly popular in the 1950s, the term "doo-wop" itself did not appear in print until 1961, in The Chicago Defender, just as the style's vogue was nearing its end. Though the name was attributed to radio disc jockey Gus Gossert, he did not accept credit, stating that "doo-wop" was already in use in California to categorize the music.

"Doo-wop" is itself a nonsense expression. In The Delta Rhythm Boys' 1945 recording, "Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin", it is heard in the backing vocal. It is heard later in The Clovers' 1953 release "Good Lovin'" (Atlantic Records 1000), and in the chorus of Carlyle Dundee & The Dundees' 1954 song "Never" (Space Records 201). The first record to use "doo-wop" in the refrain was The Turbans' 1955 hit, "When You Dance" (Herald Records H-458). The Rainbows embellished the phrase as "do wop de wadda" in their 1955 "Mary Lee" (on Red Robin Records; also a Washington, D.C. regional hit on Pilgrim 703); and in their 1956 national hit, "In the Still of the Night," The Five Satins[6] enlivened the bridge with a plaintive "doo-wop, doo-wah."

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Various Artists - Doo Wop Golden Oldies Vol 1

01 - Dancing In the Streets
02 - Mashed Potato Time
03 - Butterfly
04 - Breaking Up is Hard to Do
05 - My Boyfriends Back
06 - Going Out Of My Head
07 - I Will Follow Him
08 - A Lover's Concerto
09 - The Church Bells May Ring
10 - Downtown
11 - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
12 - Personality
13 - You Talk Too Much
14 - So Much in Love
15 - Don't Hang Up
16 - A Lover's Question
17 - Hey Little Cobra

Various Artists - Doo Wop Golden Oldies Vol 2

01 - Our Day Will Come
02 - Stand By Me
03 - Dream Lover
04 - It's All In The Game
05 - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
06 - Judy's Turn to Cry
07 - Hey Paula
08 - Come A Little Bit Closer
09 - Hello Stranger
10 - Little Bitty Pretty One
11 - For Your Precious Love
12 - Twilight Time
13 - South Street
14 - You Can't Sit Down
15 - Don't Mess With Bill
16 - Silhouettes