Track Listing
Disc: 1
1. It's Too Soon to Know - The Orioles
2. Count Every Star - The Ravens
3. Glory of Love - The Five Keys
4. Gee - The Crows
5. Crying in the Chapel - The Orioles
6. Money Honey - The Drifters, Clyde McPhatter, Clyde McPhatter
7. Golden Teardrops - The Flamingos
8. Sunday Kind of Love - The Harptones, Willie Winfield Listen
9. I - The Velvets
10. Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite - The Spaniels
11. Sh-Boom - Chords, The Chords
12. Gloria - The Cadillacs, Jesse Powell Orchestra
13. Hearts of Stone - The Jewels
14. Earth Angel - The Penguins
15. Sincerely - The Moonglows, The Moonglows
16. Mary Lee - The Rainbows
17. Close Your Eyes - The Five Keys
18. (Will You) Come Back My Love - The Wrens
19. Story Untold - The Nutmegs
20. Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters
21. Why Don't You Write Me - The Jacks
22. When You Dance - The Turbans
23. At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama) - The El Dorados
24. Great Pretender - The Platters
25. Lily Maebelle - The Valentines, The Valentines
Disc: 2
1. Speedoo - The Cadillacs, Jesse Powell Orchestra
2. Why Do Fools Fall in Love? - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
3. I'll Be Home - The Flamingos
4. Devil or Angel - The Clovers
5. Church Bells May Ring - The Willows
6. Little Girl of Mine - The Cleftones, Jimmy Wright
7. I Want You to Be My Girl - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Jimmy Wright
8. In the Still of the Night - The Five Satins
9. Closer You Are - The Channels
10. Oh, What a Night - The Dells
11. Thousand Miles Away - The Heartbeats
12. Please Say You Want Me - Leroy Kirkland Orchestra, The Schoolboys
13. Come Go with Me - The Del Vikings
14. I'm So Happy (Tra-La-La-La-La-La) - Louie Lymon & the Teenchords
15. Walking Along - The Solitaires
16. Little Darlin' - The Gladiolas
17. Don't Ask Me to Be Lonely - The Dubs
18. Florence - The Paragons
19. Deserie - The Charts
20. Whispering Bells - The Del Vikings, Corinthian "Kripp" Johnson
21. Tonite, Tonite - The Mello-Kings
22. Long Lonely Nights - Lee Andrews & the Hearts
23. Baby Oh Baby - The Shells
24. Tell Me Why - Norman Fox & The Rob Roys, The Rob Roys
25. Buzz Buzz Buzz - Hollywood Flames
26. Teardrops - Lee Andrews & the Hearts
Disc: 3
1. Been So Long - The Pastels, The Pastels
2. Get a Job - The Silhouettes
3. Book of Love - The Monotones
4. Maybe - The Chantels
5. I Wonder Why - Dion, Dion & the Belmonts
6. One Summer Night - The Danleers
7. For Your Precious Love - Jerry Butler & the Impressions
8. You Cheated - The Shields
9. I'm So Young - The Students
10. Every Day of the Week - The Students
11. Little Star - The Elegants
12. Tears on My Pillow - Little Anthony & the Imperials
13. Trickle Trickle - The Videos
14. Ten Commandments of Love - Harvey & The Moonglows, The Moonglows
15. Sixteen Candles - The Crests
16. So Fine - The Fiestas
17. Lovers Never Say Goodbye - The Flamingos
18. Since I Don't Have You - Lenny Martin & the Orchestra, The Skyliners
19. Pizza Pie - Sid Bass, Norman Fox & The Rob Roys, The Rob Roys
20. Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) - Leroy Holmes & His Orchestra, The Impalas
21. Teenager in Love - Dion & the Belmonts
22. Who's That Knocking - The Genies
23. I Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos
24. Hushabye - The Mystics
25. Rockin' in the Jungle - The Eternals
Disc: 4
1. Mope-Itty Mope - The Boss-Tones
2. Oh Rosemarie - The Fascinators, Jesse Stone Orchestra
3. Just to Be With You - The Passions
4. Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop - Little Anthony & the Imperials
5. Wind - The Jesters
6. Stay - Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
7. There's a Moon Out Tonight - The Capris
8. Blue Moon - The Marcels
9. Tonight I Fell in Love - Fields-Madera Orchestra, The Tokens
10. Daddy's Home - The Limeliters, Shep & the Limelites
11. Barbara Ann - The Regents
12. Rama Lama Ding Dong - The Edsels
13. Tonight (Could Be the Night) - Virgil Johnson, The Velvets
14. My True Story - The Jive Five, Joe Rene & Orchestra
15. Nag - The Halos
16. Lookin' for My Baby - The Earls
17. Imagination - The Quotations
18. Coney Island Baby - The Excellents
19. Remember Then - The Earls
20. Never Let You Go - The Five Discs
21. Denise - The Rainbows, , Randy & the Rainbow
22. Unchained Melody - The Salutations, Vito
23. I Do - The Marvelows
24. Morse Code of Love - The Capris
25. My Juanita [Live] - Brooklyn Bridge, Johnny Maestro
Review
This best of box set is a truly essential addition to anyone's library for anyone interested in the development of modern music. The tracks are organised in a loosely chronological way and throughout you can hear doo-wop going from the origins to some really refined music.
There are so many tracks and so many bands here that it would be impossible not to have some misses, however it surprisingly manages to have very few misses indeed. In fact the whole collection is made of win. Even if I am partial to the more modern doo-wop of the third and fourth disc, there is just too much to love in the other two discs.
You probably will not need any other collection of doo-wop music after having this, but it will make you discover artists who you might want to listen to more, as a sampler of the best of Doo-Wop this is a really lovely collection, clearly made by people with a great love for the style. Get it.
Track Highlights
1. Stay - Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
2. Teenager in Love - Dion & the Belmonts
3. Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters
4. Blue Moon - The Marcels
Final Grade
9/10
Trivia
From Wikipedia:
In the beginning and during its heyday, this type of music did not have a specific name; the term "doo-wop" was not used.
In the 1950s, this type of harmonized group sound was referred to (broadly) as "rock and roll," but more narrowly as "R&B." However, R&B was still too general a term, since R&B included single artists, instrumentalists, and jump blues bands, as well as vocal groups. At the time, the best and most accurate term used was probably "vocal group harmony," but the style still did not have an official name, despite the fact that it dominated the charts in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The term "doo-wop" first appeared in print in 1961, notably in the Chicago Defender, when fans of the music coined the term during the height of a vocal harmony resurgence.
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