Baritone Sean Devine, whose smooth vocals melt hearts the world over, and newest member Juan Del Castillo, re-creator of all of those soaring 50s first tenor lines, bring their freshness and talent to an already solid foundation of a cappella tradition. The group was originally a trio of schoolmates: Judy Craig, Patricia Bennett, and Barbara Lee; at James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1960. Groups:- All | Vintage Harmony Groups | World Groups | Gospel Groups | Vocal Jazz Groups, Female Contemporary | Mixed Voice Contemporary | Male Contemporay | Contemporary Christian, Male Choral | Female Choirs | Mixed Voice Choirs | Early Music, Boyschoirs | Girl Choirs | Mixed Voice Childrens Choirs, Primarily A Cappella - Your Source for Vocal Harmony Music, Christian | Musicals | Doo Wop | Barbershop The original members of the Du Droppers were Junior Ginyard on lead, Willie and Harvey Ray on tenor and baritone, and Eddie Hashow on bass (soon replaced by Bob Kornegay). Both Freed and fellow deejay/promoter Murray Kaufman (a.k.a. Have a look at the calendar below and locate an event to attend. Stray Cats were an American rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist and vocalist Brian Setzer, double bassist Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York. This produced a new line-up of deAndrade (lead), Jackson (bass), Albano (first tenor), Basile (second tenor) and Barsalona (baritone), though membership remained fluid over ensuing years. The trio from Spanish Harlem, New York,[ consisted of lead singer Veronica Bennett (later known as Ronnie Spector), her older sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley. The Doo Wop Cops - a cappella officers, who have gone from walking their beats to keeping the beat - have entertained presidents and have performed side-by-side with stars of the music world including Chuck Berry, the Dells and the Drifters. Today Doo-wop music is popular among college a cappella vocal groups. Sentiment Score 8.9. View all concerts. Doo-Wop! Then, around 1948, they ran into a couple of guys who also sang on the corner: Eddie Rich (first tenor) and Frederick "Money Guitar" Johnson (baritone and guitar). The modern evolution of reggae began with ska in the late 1950s and early 1960s. . Silhouettes was maybe the greatest record ever, and I loved it so much I ran to the record store and bought it on the pale blue XYZ label before Cameo even grabbed it. Fuqua, the nephew of Charlie Fuqua of the Ink Spots, left in 1958. With little success, the group reorganized, with Dortch and Peebles leaving, and new member Al Denby entering. Today, Cool T, Wopp, and Richie join Jason "Jay Bird" Sullivan and Billy "Billy D" Louth, to form one of Southwest Florida's most requested Doo Wop Groups. Doo wop is a pop-oriented R&B music style that consists of a small group of singers with tight harmonies. The Marcels were a doo-wop group known for turning American classical pop songs into rock and roll. In 2000 The Moonglows were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. You dont remember me But I remember you. What makes it so great? Sha Na Na hosted the Sha Na Na syndicated variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981. Editorial Score 9.1. The Elegants were a doo-wop quintet (all teenagers) formed in New York in the late 1950s. Wanda Young, a doo-wop singer in the Motown group The Marvelettes, died recently at the age of 76. . Today, the Boss with the Hot Sauce continues spinning those oldies in the Philly area, particularly the Jersey Shore. The name is taken from a part of the long series of nonsense syllables in the doo-wop hit song "Get a Job", originally recorded in 1957 by the Silhouettes Billing themselves as "from the streets of New York" and outfitted in gold lam, leather jackets, pompadour and ducktail hairdos, Sha Na Na performs a song and dance repertoire of classic fifties rock and roll, simultaneously reviving and parodying the music and 1950s New York street culture. Personality | Part Predominant CDs, Groups | Directors | Composers | Songwriters | Arrangers | Vocal Coaches, Arrangements | Solo Voice | Christmas | DVDs The group is best known for its classic chart-topping 1962 hit, "Do You Love Me", a million-selling single that became a major hit all over again in 1988. the follow-up, DOO WOP 51, features amazing performances by some of the most ground breaking and popular groups of the 1950's and 1960's. Volume 1 captures the action of the first of two nights, filmed at Pittsburgh's Benedum Center for the Performing Arts. Leiber and Stoller's witty, street-smart "playlets" were sung with sly, clowning humor by the Coasters and accompanied by the hot, honking "yakety sax" of King Curtis. Buzz Buzz Buzz by The Hollywood Flames (great great great); Rama Lama Ding Dong by The Edsels (more cowbell! Really, everything from Daptone Records is great if you like the soul and R&B sounds of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Andre-2999 3 yr. ago. and The G-Clefts book. Sha Na Na is an American rock and roll group. As one of the most popular 50s / 60s Era live performers currently, The Doo Wop Project will soon make appearances on stage once again for fans to attend. This led to subsequent appearances on Murphy Brown, Family Matters, the MTV Superbowl Show and a featured role as the singing firemen in the Dennis Quaid, Debra Winger film Wilder Napalm.Over the years the Echoes have had the profound pleasure of performing with many greats from the pantheon of Rock and Roll, such as Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Chuck Berry, Richard "Louie Louie" Berry, The Shirelles, Little Anthony, The Coasters, The Penguins, Gene Chandler, The Dixie Cups, The DuPrees, The Crew Cuts, The Chordettes, The Diamonds, Miss Patty Page, The Four Seasons, Tony Orlando, The Moody Blues, Lou Reed and many more. whose popularity stretches from the 1950s to today. A mixture of Jamaican beats and horn-laden jazz, ska reflected the fact that Jamaica was within radio range of the US, so African-American swing, jump blues and later doo-wop vocals and soul all made their mark. The hit was the impeccable I Only Have Eyes For You, with the haunting background of dobop, dobop or whatever it is. The series did not try to conceal or conceal its massive Beatles influence, despite the fact that it has been well documented. Doo-wop groups tended to rehearse in locations that provided echoeswhere their harmonies could best be heard. The second group of Drifters, formed in 1959 and led by Ben E. King, were originally an up-and-coming group named The Five Crowns.After 1965 members drifted in and out of both groups and many of . They put a classified ad in a local paper, and waited to see if there was any response. The Del-Vikings (also known as The Dell-Vikings) are an American doo-wop musical group, who recorded several hit singles in the 1950s, and continued to record and tour with various lineups in later decades. Doo wop is a pop-oriented R&B music style that consists of a small group of singers with tight harmonies. 'The State VS Doo Wop' includes the song 'The Motive' which has become the most well-known for music lovers to enjoy during the live events. The band, also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets (and variations thereof), was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock 'n' roll to the attention of America and the rest of the world. Audiences of all ages are thirsting for this fun, uplifting harmonic vocal style that simply makes you feel really good. Lillian S. Wells Hall at The Parker - Fort Lauderdale, FL, The Doo Wop Project & Gulf Coast Symphony, Barbara B Mann Performing Arts Hall - Fort Myers, FL, Niswonger Performing Arts Center - Greeneville - Greeneville, TN, Luhrs Performing Arts Center - Shippensburg, PA, The Weinberg Center For The Arts - Frederick, MD, The Doo Wop Project & Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Hilbert Circle Theatre - Indianapolis, IN, Effingham Performance Center - Effingham, IL, Community Concert Hall at FLC - Durango, CO, Patchogue Theater For The Performing Arts - Patchogue, NY, Lehman Center for the Performing Arts - Bronx, NY, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: The Doo Wop Project, Knoxville Civic Auditorium - Knoxville, TN, The Ridgefield Playhouse - Ridgefield, CT, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Byron Stripling - The Doo Wop Project, Tropicana Showroom at Tropicana Casino - NJ - Atlantic City, NJ. Formed in 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, The Arrogants performed on street corners and at show clubs and dances in New York City's vibrant Doo-wop scene of the early nineteen sixties. After making a massive . The group then recorded "In the Still of the Night", a very big hit in the United States which was originally released as the B-side to the single, "The Jones Girl". to trace their origins to the Bedford-Stuyvesant district of Brooklyn, New York, USA. Im 9 years old in a giant arcade on the Wildwood Boardwalk. If you grew up in Philadelphia in the 50s, you danced to The Orioles, The Moonglows, The Penguins, The Five Satins and a lot more as the City of Brotherly Love along with its big brother, New York City became the home base for street-corner vocalization. The group formerly known as the Lock City Glee Club was founded in 1965, initially as the Harrison Radiator Men's Glee Club. They wants to sing about those messages of love that speak of loving a woman as a whole person instead of a collection of body parts. The origin of The Swallows goes back to 1946, when a bunch of 13-year-olds from Baltimore formed a group called the "Oakaleers." The original group dissolved in 1963, but re-united eleven years later (without Jackie Taylor), for what would become their last charted record, "Where Have They Gone? Why the Skyliners? Then, I realized how hard it would be to limit the list to 20 when every doo-wop group was so good. All rights reserved. pop, doo-wop, ragtime and American folk music. In 1957, they gave us two doowop greats, Long Lonely Nights and Tear Drops. The next year they followed with Try The Impossible. In Philly, Maybe Youll Be There, Just Suppose, Cold Gray Dawn and Im Sorry Pillow were other great ballads in heavy rotation, while the uptempo Glad To Be Here and The Clock, the flip of Long Lonely Nights, also were Philly favorites. Fred Johnson (right), with Christian Carrasco from the Earth Angels The Marcels were an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll. It just grabbed me when I was a kid and hasnt let go. I wonder what happens with Love Potion No. The Mighty Echoes were founded at the Olio Theater in Los Angeles in 1986 at the end of a long running musical by Harvey Shield 1284: The Pied Piper. Its HyskiORoonieMcVoutiOZoot calling, uptown, downtown, crosstown. It's a broad spectrum of all the music we grew up with, and when you go on stage as these performers, you are taken back to . ); I Do by The Marvelows (doo-wop smack dab in the middle of the British Invasion, and great drums); Stranded In The Jungle by The Cadets (Great googly moogly, lemme outta here); Over And Over by Bobby Day (including the last verse, which the Dave Clark Five missed); Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) by The Impalas (Uh oh, whack that snare); At My Front Door by The El Dorados (wop wop doodly wop wop wop); Theres A Moon Out Tonight by The Capris (moon out tonight, moon out tonight, moon out tonight) and Morse Code Of Love (ditdotditit); Hushabye by The Mystics (thanks Doc); Tonight I Fell In Love by The Tokens (long before the lion, there was dumdoobiedum whoa oh). If they released only the 1955 classic "Speedo" and nothing else, they'd still be legends. Their children's series, "Doo-Wop & Lollipops," has won numerous awards, including the Parent's Choice Gold Award and the Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award. I gave this . Suffice it to say that the body of work left by variations of the group over several different labels is, for the most part, of high quality topped by two of the greatest recordings in Rock history: Come Go With Me and Whispering Bells.. In 1962, after recording two demos in Brooklyn ("My Heart Stood Still" and "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"), they ventured to California and recorded 2 songs for Lute Records: "Canadian Sunset" and "Mirror, Mirror". However, in the winter of 2007 the perfect mix of members emerged! 3, but to doo-wop afficionados, the flip, "That's My Desire," was just as good. Collectors have made the Swallows one of the most beloved of R&B groups. Ticket Inquiries CustomerSupport@concertfix.com. Once you find the The Doo Wop Project tickets you need, you can purchase your seats from our safe and secure checkout. Interestingly, Johnson, a lefty, taught himself to play a right-handed guitar held upside down. The Cat's Pajamas are 5 men who creates all the sounds of a band using only their voices. ), the largest organization of doo-wop music enthusiasts in the country. Doo Wop groups, a capella groups or barbershop quartets are a perfect choice for any event. Lit chanted, Calling all my beats, beards, Buddhist cats, big-time spenders, money lenders, teetotalers, elbow benders, hog callers, home-run hitters, finger-poppin daddies and cool baby sitters. Zoom Zoom Zoom by The Collegians (kids stompin so hard, youd swear the floor was gonna give); Trickle Trickle by The Videos (years before there were videos); Whos That Knocking by The Genies (boom boom boom bang bang bang); Tonite, Tonite by The Mello-Kings (the perfect grind song); My True Story and What Time Is It by The Jive Five (better hurry up and put my tie on); Book Of Love by The Monotones (yeah); Peanuts by Little Joe and The Thrillers (left me shell shocked sorry); Imagination by The Quotations (gimmeimamamagination); Could This Be Magic? and Dont Ask Me (To Be Lonely) by The Dubs; In the 1950s, Philadelphia became a home base for the street-corner vocalization style known as doo-wop. From 1989-1993, the group consisted of: Larry Chance, Bobby Tribuzzio, Bob Coleman, Art Loria (formerly of The Belmonts) and T.J. Barbella. Darts, who had a string of chart hits in the late 70s and early 80s, are a nine-strong, energetic doo-wop group whose brand of visual excitement and more. But in Philadelphia, we heard more on the radio, mainly thanks to three of the greatest deejays in rock history: the late Georgie Woods and Hy Lit, and the still-going-strong Jerry Blavat. The members consist of Jerome Alexander, Arzia Harris, Barth Phillips, and Reginald Ringo. But it also contained Stormy Weather, and almost every cut was an out-and-out gem. From 1956 to 1961, the Coasters released a string of classic singles that reflected the life of the American teenager with keen wit and hot, rocking harmonies. I bought it because the lead cut, I Know, bowled me over. If you can't get to any of the current concerts, sign up for our Concert Tracker to get alerts immediately when The Doo Wop Project shows are revealed in your city. (By the way, if Pat Prince finds a photo of the Boss-Tones, he automatically wins editor of the year.). Sometimes known as the Del-Vikings, sometimes the Dell-Vikings, the history of this group is more convoluted than any except, perhaps, The Hollywood Flames. (Rich and Johnson were childhood friends and eventual brothers-in-law.) Doo-Wop! List Price (MSRP) : 29.98. Subsequent singles like "Blessed Is the Rain" and "Your Husband--My Wife" failed to recapture the debut's success, however, and albums like The Second Brooklyn Bridge and 1970's Day Is Done also fared poorly; while the group's contract with the Buddah label ended in the wake of 1972's Bridge in Blue, they continued performing live throughout the decades to follow, although by the 1990s only Maestro and Ferrara remained from the original lineup. Doo wop luminaries performing . There's also a pretty cool cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as a Doo-Wop song. Im surrounded by pinball machines and skeeball ramps, and this Wurlitzer is blasting Only You, The Great Pretender and My Prayer. If youve never been there, done that that spells doo-wop! With seven top 10 records, with four that hit No. Because they were so damn great. The group was notable for being one of the few racially integrated musical groups to attain success in the 1950s. They constantly perform for visiting corporate conventions and destination planners; doing everything from singing people off and on tour busses, to opening meetings and getting corporate executives out of their seats to the Motown sound or an Elvis tune. The group was formed on Long Island in 1968 from the ashes of local rivals the Del-Satins (a vocal quartet including Maestro, Fred Ferrara, Mike Gregorio and Les Cauchi) and the Rhythm Method (musical director Tom Sullivan, guitarist Jim Macioce, organist Carolyn Woods, bassist Jim Rosica, trumpeter Shelly Davis, saxophonist Joe Ruvio and drummer Artie Cantanzarita). The Contours were one of the early African-American soul singing groups signed to Motown Records. The Chantels Video unavailable Watch on YouTube 2 in 1961. It became known as doo-wop. Upon moving to the Bronx, New York, Larry originally formed his group as The Hi-Hatters. Follow your favorite performers and cities, Receive alerts when new shows are announced, Get updates for the latest concert schedules. From late 1954 to late 1956, the group placed nine singles in the Top 20, one of those a number one and three more in the Top Ten. . The Flamingos had just one major hit record, but the group was so good, some of its misses are classics today. MC6 is an a cappella performing group founded in 2004 by six friends who love to sing and who share a passion for the power of the human voice. Concert schedule for The Doo Wop Project is located on top. Seeing as they started the 80's/90's they're not exactly "new", but I love the Firebirds. A Brief History of Doo-Wop The origins of doo-wop trace back to the 1930s and 1940s, when popular groups like the Mills Brothers simulated the sounds of reed and string instruments with their voices. The Willows are an American doo-wop group formed in Harlem, New York, in 1952.The group was an influential musical act that performed into the mid-1960s and had a Top 20 R&B hit with "Church Bells May Ring", a song which was covered with greater commercial success by The Diamonds.. History. Before the Willows, the group was known as the Dovers, which originally built a reputation in Harlem . J [ edit] Jackie and the Starlites. . Groups; Quotes; Ask the Author; The Drifters The greatest of them all? The Vocal Group Hall of Fame has stated that the group was the most popular rock band before the Beatles. and the G-Clefs: The Saga of America's last original Doo-Wop group from the 1950's still performing eBook : Devlin, Michael: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store Continue without accepting Select Your Cookie Preferences It all started when two old friends were reminiscing about their teen-age years, and singing in a street-corner group, in Brick, NJ. Devlin, Michael G. (Author) The original lineup was: Jimmy Beaumont (lead), Janet Vogel (soprano), Wally Lester (tenor), Jackie Taylor (bass voice, guitarist), Joe Verscharen (baritone).The Skyliners were best known for their 1959 hit, "Since I Don't Have You". Portrait Of My Love had been a top ten hit for Steve Lawrence earlier in the decade. For all my carrot tops, lollipops and extremely delicate gum drops. I havent a clue. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Read reviews from world's largest community for readers. Sha Na Na was an American rock and roll doo-wop group. They are all committed to singing many songs that other groups won't even touch. I see a need for a special place were fans can find where their favorite artists are performing. Formed in 1969, but performing a song-and-dance repertoire based on 1950s hit songs, it simultaneously revived and parodied the music and the New York street culture of the 1950s. No Top 40 there. That said, who are best doo-wop groups of all time? These guys are smooth as silk, professional, authentic and spot on key-one of the best Doo-Wop CDs we've heard this year! The Ronettes were an American girl group from New York City. So, what are the 20 best doo-wop groups? Here there, everywhere. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and signed to Colpix Records with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Ron Mundy, and Richard Knauss. For a doo-wop group that only had three big hits, the Del-Vikings (or Dell Vikings, or Del Vikings, or Dell Vikings) had not only one of the most intriguing but also one of the most culturally and historically significant backstories in early rock history. Concert schedules for all The Doo Wop Project concerts are refreshed on a regular basis. "Murray the K") liked Little Anthony and the Imperials and helped launch their career with airplay and concert bookings. Founded in 1997, all-male Doo Wop quartet 4 Ever Young, from the Dallas/Ft. Dont try to hide, Im every place!) The award-winning group offers a continuously fresh repertoire of hundreds of popular hits that cover the last five decades. Today Doo-wop music is popular among college a cappella vocal groups. 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