CD DOO WOP: THE ROCK &..

Popis - DOO WOP: THE ROCK &..:
'96 US Pop Hits From The Golden Years Of Doo Wop'. The innocent glory of the doo wop sound which swept the world in the late 1950s is beautifully captured over the three CDs of Doo Wop: The Rock & Roll Vocal Group Sound (1957-1961); combined with lavish annotation to form one of the most comprehensive documents of this music to date. Continuing the Fantastic Voyage ethos of encompassing well-known genre landmarks while looking deeper into the bottomless obscure independent label mines, compiler Laurence Cane-Honeysett has assembled 96 doo wop diamonds, drawn from the groups which sprang up on the rooftops and street corners of America around 1956-57. Doo wop was initially derived from black vocal groups, as vividly highlighted on Fantastic Voyage's previous compilation Doo Wop: The R&B Vocal Group Sound (FVTD116). Their harmonies and style were taken up by countless white teenage trios, quartets and quintets, as evidenced by the tracks compiled here: everyone a hit on the US Pop charts. Disc one, titled Oom Dooby Doom (1957 to 1959) kicks off with Toronto heavy hitters the Diamonds (like the other better-known acts, represented with several songs), then zips through names such as the Mello-Kings, the Techniques, Danny & the Juniors ("At The Hop", of course!), the Original Casuals, the Voxpoppers, the Slades (the original "You Cheated" as later covered by the Shangri-Las), Phil Spector's Teddy Bears, the Aquatones, the Crests, the Skyliners, the Fleetwoods, the Mystics and New Yorks biggest doo wop success story, Dion & the Belmonts. Disc two, Gee Whiz (1959 to 1960), gets under way with Bronx Hispanic outfit the Eternals before cruising through both previous names (Dion represented by the time-stopping "Where Or When") plus the Tassels, the Fireflies, the Passions, Jan & Dean, the Knockouts, the (non-Motown) Temptations, the Safaris, the Statues, Dante & the Evergreens, Kathy Young & the Innocents, the Chimes, and even Kim Fowley's Hollywood Argyles with "Alley-Oop". Disc three, Back To The Hop (1960-61), slides dreamily into sky-soaring action with the Capris "Theres A Moon Out Tonight" before running through already-introduced names plus Cathy Jean & the Roommates, the Echoes, Donnie & the Dreamers, the Timetones, the Regents, the Castells, Rick & the Keens, the Ly-Dells, Nino & the Ebb Tides, the Dovells, and Curtis Lee, ending with three hardy perennials in the Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", Dion's "The Wanderer" and Barry Mann and the Halos' "Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" from 1961.