Luckily for you my friend Doo Wop is still alive and well in a new, modern form...

NO, don't thank me. It is my pleasure to share it. NEW Doo Wop

The popular belief is that the death of Doo-Wop coincided with the arrival of The Beatles in America in '64. The whole British Invasion thing. But the truth is, times were already a changin at that point .

There were some nice Doo-Wops recorded from 61-63, but musical tastes were already shifting among young people at that point. But don't blame The Beatles. It was actually Dylan's fault .

Correct. After all he did write..."for the times, they are a changin'"

White Christmas - The Drifters

One of my favorites.

home alone!!!

One of my friends from junior high and high school, Betty Semel, still sings doo-wop. Here's a short vid:

One of my favorites SC.

I think Doo-Wop more or less ended around 62 (or early sixties anyway). Reflecting back it sure was a great sound.



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From 1958 (or so), my brother (on the right) with two of his pals practicing their doo-wop:

Classic!

A piece of trivia.... the guy in the middle, Jan Jarmel, was the namesake for a character on the "Seinfeld" show. Larry David grew up in the same co-op as me, and he named a character on the show after Jan. The character was named Jake Jarmel. (Larry has an older brother, Kenny, who is my brother's age).

She's your age, SC?

Anyway, she looks great .

Can't hear "Be My Baby" without thinking of the "Mean Streets" intro.

Everyone's a comedian.

She still sings in Jersey. Doo-wop ain't dead.

Oh yes, the great voice of Ronnie Spector (once married to Phil Spector). She sang the the lines from that song in Eddie Money's "Take Me Home Tonight."

Speaking of Eddie Money, anyone see the Geico commercial he's in? What the heck happened to him.







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There are always lots of shows during the summer down the shore. Also (and no surprise here given the age demographics), there are always shows in South Florida.

I saw the Duprees and the Brooklyn Bridge together a couple of years ago in Jupiter. It was less than a year before Johnny Maestro died, but when he sang "Sixteen Candles" he still sounded like the 19 year old kid who recorded it 1958. I hate to sound gay, but that man sang like an angel.

Johnny Maestro had a GREAT voice!!

I saw Eddie Money on "The King of Queens" a few years ago. Doug and Deacon won $5000 in a sports pool but were afraid to tell their wives, so they decided to spend it all in one day. They ended up "renting out" Eddie Money to sing in the living room .

So I guess that in real life things aren't that much better for poor old Eddie.

SC, if the hairdos in that photo weren't dead giveaways for 1958, the shirts were. Was Jarmel involved with a group called the Jarmels, who sang, "Little Bit of Soap?"

PB, one of the most important reasons why "Mean Streets" is such an all-time great movie is how brilliantly Scorsese selected the soundtrack. Every song works just right for every scene. What song could better set up Charlie's earnest efforts to "do good" then "Be My Baby"? Two other great ones: Chantels singing "I Love You So" when Charlie's admiring his new monogrammed shirt in the mirror; and Paragons' "Florence" when they're driving NYC streets to Joey's poolroom. Just great!

No relation there, but he was Jan Murray's nephew.

...born Murray Janowsky...

Give that man a cigar!

Turnbull, I remember all of 'em. Plus The Mello-Kings-- Tonite,Tonite; The Charts, Deseriee.

...and "Zoop."

Alex, you already may know this but most of the oldies that arent' available for sale on Amazon or iTunes Store are hosted on YouTube. You can peel the audio from the videos and download to your computer by using one of several sites created for that purpose.

Some of the newer computers give you the peel option as soon as you load the video.

Hey Turnbull (and other interested parties ),

I had to revive this thread with one that I forgot about and just heard on satellite radio. This is a special doo-wop version of Sam Cooke's "Nothing Can Change This Love" that initially went unreleased because the ballad that he recorded of the same song was so popular. If you listen closely, you can really hear this song bridging the gap between doo-wop and early Motown. But that's obviously just my opinion.

I think I posted this before but don't know if I could pick a favorite, but "In The Still Of The Night" is one of my favorites, along with "Little Darlin"


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