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Various - Street Corner Symphonies: Vol.12, 1960 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop

1-CD album Digipac (4x) with extensive booklet, 28 titles. Playtime approx. 69 mns.

The Complete Story Of Doo Wop
Volume 12 - 1960

The vocal group sound was splitting in several directions as the new decade turned. The New York area was as obsessed with doo-wop as ever, groups of all ethnic stripes joyfully making street corner harmonies in studios across the city. The Chaperones, Chimes, Desires, and Starlites were making their presence felt for the first time alongside more established outfits such as The Jesters, Fiestas, and Danleers. There was plenty of doo-wop action on the West Coast too, with The Sevilles, Paradons, Vibrations, and Rochell and The Candles all surfacing. With the popularity of the recently released album 'The Paragons Meet The Jesters,' two West Coast groups took similar names, The Paradons and The Pentagons.

Violins were everywhere on 1960 vocal group platters, in large part due to the phenomenal success of the newly recast Drifters. Their producers, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, started a trend with their percussion-laden Latin rhythms, a sophisticated approach centered in New York that became known as uptown soul (even The Coasters were dabbling in suave south-of-the-border fare). The Shirelles became The Drifters' female uptown soul counterparts, similarly awash in strings, and The Crests, Flamingos, Blue Notes, Skyliners, Cadillacs, Dubs, Five Satins, and more were soon willingly surrounded by moonlighting symphony musicians (after all, it imparted a touch of class to the product).

Experienced outfits such as The Moonglows, Clovers, "5" Royales, Falcons, and Spaniels were still making fine records (Hank Ballard and The Midnighters were as hot as any group on the scene). Detroit was really breaking out as a vocal group hot spot; not only were veteran outfits such as The Five Dollars enduring, the young and hungry Distants and Miracles were setting the stage for the Motor City’s '60s emergence as the soul capitol of the U.S. The Four Tops wouldn't settle in at Hitsville, U.S.A. for another three years or so, but they were already making product in New York for producer John Hammond, who also happened to be working with another Detroit standout, Aretha Franklin.

An increasing gospel influence enriched a lot of the year's vocal group output as the advent of soul music swayed more and more aggregations. Then there were vocal group songs that were virtually unclassifiable - witness one of the year's biggest hits, Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs' impossibly infectious Stay. So much was going on all at once that identifying one overriding trend was impossible. Maybe that’s one reason this 'Street Corner Symphonies' series is so fascinating!

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Various - Street Corner Symphonies - Vol.12, 1960 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop CD 1
01 Stay Maurice Williams and The Zodia
02 Nobody Loves Me Like You Flamingos
03 Once In A While Chimes
04 Easy Lovin' Clovers
05 Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go Hank Ballard and The Midnighte
06 To Be Loved (Forever) Pentagons
07 Will You Love Me Tomorrow Shirelles
08 This Magic Moment Drifters
09 Besame Mucho (Part 1) Coasters
10 Who's Lovin' You Miracles
11 Big Boy Pete Olympics
12 Over The Rainbow Demensions
13 I Know Spaniels
14 Dollar Bill Fiestas
15 Once Upon A Time Rochell & the Candles
16 Step By Step Crests
17 Diamonds And Pearls Paradons
18 Pennies From Heaven Skyliners
19 Cruise To The Moon Chaperones
20 Ain't That Love Four Tops
21 Charlena Sevilles
22 My Baby-O Five Dollars
23 Sally Green Jesters
24 I'm With You 5' Royales
25 My Hero Blue Notes
26 Come On Distants
27 If You Don't Care Danleers
28 So Blue Vibrations
29 The Teacher Falcons
30 I'm Willing Cadillacs
31 Valarie Starlites
32 Mama Loocie Moonglows
33 Rendezvous With You Desires
34 Don't Laugh At Me The Dubs arr. and cond. by Sid
35 I'll Be Seeing You Five Satins
Street Corner Symphonies Doo-Wop is one of the foundation stones of Rock 'n' Roll. BEAR... more
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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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Tracklist
Various - Street Corner Symphonies - Vol.12, 1960 The Complete Story Of Doo Wop CD 1
01 Stay
02 Nobody Loves Me Like You
03 Once In A While
04 Easy Lovin'
05 Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go
06 To Be Loved (Forever)
07 Will You Love Me Tomorrow
08 This Magic Moment
09 Besame Mucho (Part 1)
10 Who's Lovin' You
11 Big Boy Pete
12 Over The Rainbow
13 I Know
14 Dollar Bill
15 Once Upon A Time
16 Step By Step
17 Diamonds And Pearls
18 Pennies From Heaven
19 Cruise To The Moon
20 Ain't That Love
21 Charlena
22 My Baby-O
23 Sally Green
24 I'm With You
25 My Hero
26 Come On
27 If You Don't Care
28 So Blue
29 The Teacher
30 I'm Willing
31 Valarie
32 Mama Loocie
33 Rendezvous With You
34 Don't Laugh At Me
35 I'll Be Seeing You