Various - Street Corner Symphonies Vol.09, 1957 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
Various - Street Corner Symphonies: Vol.09, 1957 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
Street Corner Symphonies
The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
Volume 9 - 1957
Rock and roll had conquered the vocal group field by 1957, so much that "old-timers" like The Clovers, Drifters, and Midnighters - indeed, most groups sporting even a hint of a bluesy influence in their harmonic blend - were experiencing a decided downturn in sales figures despite cranking out quality platters. One welcome exception: The '5' Royales, who made a comeback after three years off the charts by updating their sound with Lowman Pauling's brash lead guitar.
The demographics for freshly minted groups were skewing younger than ever. What the great majority of them were singing was classic street corner harmony, an indigenous style that would eventually become known as doo-wop. New York-based newcomers such as The Paragons, Jesters, Cellos, Charts, Shells, Velours, and Rob-Roys were reshaping the sound in compelling ways of their own. Gender barriers were falling like never before. Two of 1957's biggest discoveries, The Chantels and Bobbettes, were New York schoolgirls who scored major hits at the very beginning of their respective careers, boding well for the slow but steady rise of female aggregations.
The proto-doo-wop sound could be viewed as a form of urban folk music, created without the aid of any musical instruments. Teenagers in Harlem, Philly, and Chicago gathered under the illumination of a streetlamp or in the cool, echo-laden confines of a subway station to sing the songs of their more experienced idols (and maybe one or two of their own creations), hoping a wandering talent scout would overhear their efforts and offer them a recording contract. Time and again, that's exactly what happened, though precious few groups got rich off their budding talents, even with records on the shelf. White groups were starting to fully assimilate the doo-wop sound instead of making bland covers for pop airplay. Case in point: The Mello-Kings' debut single Tonite, Tonite stood with the year's best vocal group releases.
The humorous creations of writer/producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, as expertly delivered by their handpicked quartet, The Coasters, were at last finding the mammoth audience they merited. And while The Silhouettes weren't as youthful as some of the fresh new faces cited above, the Philadelphia quartet's Get A Job was in all likelihood the year's most important vocal group smash.
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Album titlle: Vol.09, 1957 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
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Genre R&B, Soul
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Label Bear Family Records
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EAN: 4000127172877
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| Various - Street Corner Symphonies - Vol.09, 1957 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Get A Job | Silhouettes, The | ||
| 02 | Maybe | Chantels, The | ||
| 03 | Little Darlin' | Gladiolas, The | ||
| 04 | To The Aisle | Five Satins, The | ||
| 05 | Searchin' | Coasters, The | ||
| 06 | Florence | Paragons, The | ||
| 07 | Dedicated To The One I Love | '5' Royales, The | ||
| 08 | Book Of Love | Monotones, The | ||
| 09 | Lonely Nights | Lee Andrews & the Hearts | ||
| 10 | Mr. Lee | Bobbettes, The with Reggie Obr | ||
| 11 | Been So Long | Pastels, The | ||
| 12 | Whispering Bells | Dell-Vikings, The featuring Kr | ||
| 13 | Baby Oh Baby | Shells, The | ||
| 14 | Everyone's Laughing | Spaniels, The with Al Smith's | ||
| 15 | Silhouettes | Rays, The | ||
| 16 | Tell Me Why | Norman Fox & The Rob Roys | ||
| 17 | Why Do You Have To Go | Dells, The | ||
| 18 | Lover Boy | Cleftones, The | ||
| 19 | Deserie | Charts, The | ||
| 20 | My Girlfriend | Cadillacs, The | ||
| 21 | Could This Be Magic | Dubs, The | ||
| 22 | Walking Along | Solitaires, The | ||
| 23 | Little Bitty Pretty One | Bobby Day and Satellites, The | ||
| 24 | Tonite, Tonite | Mello-Kings, The | ||
| 25 | Peanuts | Little Joe & The Thrillers | ||
| 26 | Don't Say Goodnight | Valentines, The | ||
| 27 | Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese Sandma | Cellos, The | ||
| 28 | Happy, Happy Birthday Baby | Tune Weavers | ||
| 29 | Dance With Me | El Torros, The | ||
| 30 | Can I Come Over Tonight | Velours, The and Sammy Lowe Or | ||
| 31 | Buzz-Buzz-Buzz | Hollywood Flames, The | ||
| 32 | So Strange | Jesters, The with David Clowne | ||
| 33 | Congratulations | Turbans, The | ||
| 34 | Four O'Clock In The Morning | Stanley Mitchell and The Torna | ||
Street Corner Symphonies
- Doo-Wop is one of the foundation stones of Rock 'n' Roll.
- BEAR FAMILY will issue the defintive story of Doo-Wop from 1939-1963!
- The first five volumes covering 1939-1953 are out now! q Every Doo-Wop hit!
- Every neglected classic!
- Every ground-breaking record!
- Detailed song-by-song notes and amazing rare photos from the golden era!
Street Corner Symphonies
Like Rap, Doo-Wop music was an urban American art-form. It was sung on street-corners, in stairwells of tenement apartments, in high school toilets... and it was preserved for posterity in recording studios. Most of the performers were African American, and many of the songs were romantic – in sharp contrast to the bleak reality of urban African American life at the time. Doo- Wop had its origins in the black pop and gospel groups of the pre-World War II era, but it flourished in the years after World War II and became a major contributing force to the evolution of Rock 'n' Roll.
In fact, some eminent cultural historians cite re- cords like Sixty Minute Man and Gee as among the first Rock 'n' Roll records. Both of those classics, along with many more, are on BEAR FAMILY's defintive history of Doo-Wop, 'Street Corner Symphonies.' As always, you can trust 
BEAR FAMILY to get it right. Starting in 1939 with pre-Doo-Wop acts like the Golden Gate Quartet, the Ink Spots, and the Mills Brothers, 'Street Corner Sym- phonies' will take the story until the end of the Doo-Wop era in 1963. The first five volumes cover the years 1939 to 1953: in other words, Doo-Wop's true golden era. There are simply too many hits to list – just look at the track listing! Suffice to say that these were the records that provided the soundtrack to the Rock 'n' Roll revolution... and the records that changed American and global popular music forever.
This series has been compiled and annotated by R&B music's foremost scholar, Chicago's Bill Dahl, and every song comes with detailed notes and illustrations. There have been plenty of Doo-Wop compilations, even a few Doo-Wop boxed sets, but this se- ries is the last word on the genre. Truly definitive! Every hit, every underground classic, every song that lit up the airwaves at the dawn of rock 'n' roll. Every shoop, every doop, every doo-doo-wah!
Nach der Lektüre der Liner Notes darf man sich schon als Fachmann in Sachen DooWop fühlen.
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