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1-CD-Album Digipak (4-plated) with 84-page booklet, 34 tracks. Total playing time approx. 84 mns.

Street Corner Symphonies
The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
Volume 11 - 1959

Cutting edge R&B vocal groups were beginning to move away from the tried-and-true doo-wop approach in 1959. A new lineup of Drifters was bravely pioneering what would come to be known as uptown soul, a sub-genre developed in New York by imaginative producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller incorporating Latin rhythms and majestic string sections that were a long way removed from time-honored street corner doo-wop with minimal instrumentation. Soon this impeccably crafted, extremely pop-accessible new sound would spread like wildfire.

Then there was the holy roller approach of The Isley Brothers, whose pew-rattling screams and torrid sanctified chord progression on their two-part rouser Shout brought the soul-saving intensity of the Baptist church full force into the R&B lexicon. Countless aggregations would follow one lead or the other (in some cases, both), modernizing the vocal group sound just as The Ravens and Orioles had at the start of the postwar era and The Clovers, Midnighters, and Clyde McPhatter's Drifters did when the rock and roll movement was first spreading.

There was still plenty of newly recorded doo-wop to savor, and it was more of a multi-ethnic experience than ever. New York sired a phalanx of Caucasian vocal groups (Dion and The Belmonts, The Mystics, The Passions, The Fireflies) whose harmonies were as precise and bracing as their African-American counterparts. There were plenty of R&B-trained newcomers too, although many would make a mere handful of platters before disappearing into the mist (The Sonics, Fantastics, Boss-Tones, Accents, Desires, and Little Jimmy & The Tops here, for example).

A lot of familiar faces were still thriving. The Clovers enjoyed their biggest seller for several years by adopting a Coasters-oriented approach. The Flamingos nailed their top-selling hit of all. Add The Dells, Coasters, Olympics, Fiestas, and plenty more to that experienced list. Berry Gordy was just getting his Motown empire off the ground; Smokey Robinson's Miracles were already making delicate ballads that were fluffier than a soufflé, and The Satintones showed promise as well.

Doo-wop would undergo a major revival as the decade turned. The seeds for that revival were already being sown in 1959 - as a listen to this disc readily attests.

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Album titlle: Vol.11, 1959 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
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Various - Street Corner Symphonies - Vol.11, 1959 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop CD 1
01	I Only Have Eyes For You	Flamingos
02	Love Potion No. 9	Clovers
03	This I Swear	Skyliners
04	The Angels Listened In	Crests
05	Island Of Love	Sheppards
06	You're So Fine	Falcons
07	Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)	Impalas
08	My Love Will Never Die	Channels
09	Wiggle, Wiggle	Accents
10	Dedicated To The One I Love	Shirelles
11	Senorita I Love You	Impressions
12	A Teenager In Love	Dion and The Belmonts
13	Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop	Little Anthony & The Imperials
14	Hushabye	Mystics
15	Moonlight Serenade	Rivieras
16	Who's That Knocking	Genies
17	Just To Be With You	Passions
18	Charlie Brown	Coasters
19	Dearest Darling	Smith, Huey (and The Clowns)
20	Dry Your Eyes	Dells
21	(Baby) Hully Gully	Olympics
22	Puppy Love	Little Jimmy and The Tops
23	Rockin' In The Jungle	Eternals
24	You Were Mine	Fireflies
25	Good News	Fiestas
26	Mope-itty Mope	Boss-Tones
27	Sea Of Love	Phil Phillips with The Twiligh
28	Let It Please Be You	Desires
29	There Goes My Love	Fantastics
30	My Beloved (without strings)	Satintones
31	Oh Rose Marie	Fascinators
32	This Broken Heart	Sonics
33	There Goes My Baby	Drifters
34	Shout (Parts 1 & 2)	Isley Brothers

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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!

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