Hard to choose ... so many great songs.
For me, "There's a Moon Out Tonight" by The Capris is one of my favorites.

That was very nice, PB. Thanks!

I don't know that this was recorded in the 60's but I first heard Kenny Vance do "Looking for an echo" onthe PBS show. It's as good as any of the DO Wop music I used to listen to in the 50' and 60's, and to me it hasn't died

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke1dV_IpSKA

tears on my pillow - little anthony

daddys home - shep and the limelights

so young - the students

great movie, one of my faves...got the dvd

just bought this version on ebay, great record...thanks PB

one of my all time faves

glad i found this thread LOL

There are so many great Doo-wop groups but I think perhaps it's more the sound itself. At the time, so new, so innocent and just a real new sound and today it's like a flashback in history for older people and just good fun music for all people.



TIS

one of my fathers faves, he has the 45

im 33 but my father used to play it so often that i got addicted...have most of these on vinyl, ive "borrowed' about 90% of his collection

This choice shows you to be a true man of taste, Cheech! A true classic--more heartbreak in ~2 minutes than in any 19th Century Dime Novel. I listen to it all the time, play it on my guitar and sing along.

Another feature of doo wop: excellent diction. You can hear it on "I'm So Young."

Interestingly enough, the Students originally called themselves the "D'italians" (attention: PB), but changed to the Students when they got their contract with Checker.

To avoid hijacking the Dion thread, how about this guy, TB?

One hit wonder, sure. But he can still sing it at 70 years old.

Hey TB. Just saw this post. Can't believe you knew it. Always thought it was pretty obscure. My father used to sing it around the house. And on my parents 10th anniversary he called up cousin Brucie and requested it. I still have the recording in cassettes

Ya know some people have been together a long time. This is going out to Lisa from Andy. Happy anniversary. And then the song comes on.

Gives me goose bumps thinking about it. Doo wop is such a beautiful genre.

Would u consider Frankie Lymon doo wop? He was always one of my father and mines fave

Little Anthony can still sing his ass off. Heard him live on Sirius the other day. What a voice.

Great song, Cheech. The Internet has made virtually all music easy enough to find. But it wasn't always like that.

Years ago (1989 or 1990), "I'm So Young" was finally released on a cd called "WCBS FM: For Lovers Only, Part 1." Up til that point it was impossible to find. I RAN to Sam Goody's to buy a copy for me and a copy for my Dad. And we both still have our copies (handle a cd with care and it will last you forever) .

My father may have that on cassette. He has a few best of wcbs stuff. I'll look Saturday. You guys would like each other.

Another song he loved i can't think of the title or artist. But it went some thing like

What time is it, it's....6 o'clock......something like that

Maybe Johnny maestro. On my phone now. Don't feel like you tubing it. U may kno

In the still of the night by the 5 satins is one of the best if not THE best

I thought the four tops were fantastic like can't help myself and 20 others

Jive 5 they still perform

The late great Willson Pickett some one I worked with was a good friend of his. We went out to eat together at sloppy Louie's near the Fulton fish market.

Thanks foot. Appreciate it

During the summer around here in new haven they have free concerts every Saturday on the green. We always go down to the oldies/doo wop shows. It's a lot of fun

The original singers who sang with Frankie Lymon still perform. They had a young white kid do his songs. If they are stll performing with him he must be in his 20s now.

There was a doowop group called the quotations had a hit called imagination the lead singer was a neighbor of mine until he retired to NJ. His name was Larry kassman what a ham he was.

OUTSTANDING video, PB. Thanks! Proves what I said: Italians were the only white guys who made decent doo wop (although I think Jimmy Beaumont of the Skyliners was Irish?).

Cheech, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers were a quintessential NY doo-wop group. Saw them many times at the Alan Freed shows in the Fifties. Frankie was immensely popular with white kids, particularly girls--he had an angelic voice and cherubic looks [sound of wings flapping...]. He was also the first well-known R&R victim of heroin. The Teenagers still sing. A friend from work filled in with them occasionally. Two of the originals are still with us.

Another quintessential NY doo wop group was the Channels ("The Closer You Are," plus many others--attention! PB!). Into the Sixties, when I worked on Wall Street, I'd see white guys, wearing NY Stock Exchange coats, singing "The Closer You Are" in office building vestibules to get the echo effect. Another NY classic doo wop group was the Harptones. Willie Winfield, their lead singer, was truly beloved.

The Jive Five were a "neo-Doo Wop" group--their big hit, "My True Story," was early Sixties. An unforgettably great song.

Love doo-wop, I'll post some of my favorites

Earth Angel- The Penguins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcGi4-n_Yw

The Dells - Oh What A Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ozQT8yQXA


In the Still of the Night - Fred Parris and The Satins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI