Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
TracksSo Much in Love, Denise, Have You Heard, Unchained Melody, Down the Aisle (Wedding Song), What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am), He's So Fine, Till Then, You Can Not Sit Down, I'll Take You Home, Do Not Say Nothin 'Bad (About My Baby), The Bird's the Word, Lonely Drifter, The Bounce, Easier Said Than Done, I'm the One Who Loves You, Not Me, Never, Sally Go 'Round the Roses, Shake a Tail Feather, Foolish Little Girl, The Gorilla, Be My Baby, It Will Not Be This Way (Always), Tell Him, Elephant Walk (Native Girl), A Love She Can Count on, I Need Your Love, May I Have This Dance, Who Do You Love, Found True Love, A Love Like Yours (Do Not Come Knocking), As I Walk Alone, Let's Kiss and Make Up, Play Those Oldies Mr. Dee Jay
Notes2013 release, the 15th installment in this incredible series that focuses on the glory days of Doo Wop. 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. 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 series is the last word on the genre. 35 tracks. Bear Family.