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― etc, Sunday, 20 April 2008 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Even better Lymon than "Juvenile Delinquent" is "I Want You to Be My Girl."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 20 April 2008 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Dude would be only 66 this year.
I got til Tuesday to decide, is that right?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 20 April 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
A second for Come Go With Me
― that's not my post, Monday, 21 April 2008 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Far from the only doo-wop set *I'll* ever need.
The Elegants' Twinkle Twinkle won't get my vote (it's kind of flat & lame, actually), but it's a record I grew up with & always flipped to listen to the B-side, Getting Dizzy, in which the singers approximate a doppler-like "dizzy" effect, going wooooah-WOOAH-wooooah like they're actually spinning as the records goes 'round.
I'm interested in that vocal-effects aspect of doo-wop, where singers go beyond singing & move into the potential of the human voice, like the stuff Clarence Palmer was doing with the Jive Bombers. Some of it seems to anticipate what people would do electronically in subsequent years.
My vote -- why fight it? -- is for the Flamingos.
― briania, Monday, 21 April 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Like I said on Tracer Hand's Asimov thread, I would love to hear the Flamingos, if not the Moonglows, sing a song about The Three Laws Of Robotics.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 April 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
The Flamingos and Moonglows both get into the vocal-effects thing, too, where the voice is stretched, bent or clipped to sound like an instrument or machine or something not-human.
I remember reading in David Ritz's Divided Soul about Marvin Gaye's apprenticeship with the Moonglows, when Harvey Fuqua taught him the secret of "blow harmony", a vocal effect he continued to utilize throughout his career.
― briania, Monday, 21 April 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard The Dells on the radio the other day talking about how bad they were until they apprenticed under The Moonglows.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 April 2008 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I voted for "I Wonder Why" but it easily could have been one of a dozen others.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 21 April 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Duprees in a walk, I love that song in every rendition but the original is just stupendous.
meanwhile, good lord but I'm'a buy the hell out of that cd
― jamescobo, Monday, 21 April 2008 23:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 22 April 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow. Good thing I voted for IWW. But basically another poll with not enough voters.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
No "10 Commandments of Love"??
― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The Moonglows wuz robbed.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Not enough voters, but more than I feared. I was pleasantly surprised at the interest, actually. I would have liked to see "Denise" get a vote, and I still love "Earth Angel" from watching Back To The Future so many times.
― Euler, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
btw this collection really is fantastic; I also have the Rhino Doo-Wop Box 2, but I put this on way more. Anyone with the first Rhino box? Is it worth getting in addition to the collection polled here? And if so, why? It's always seemed pricey to me.
― Euler, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I like "Denise" OK, but I once met a guy who specialized in a certain sort of deracinated doo-wop and "Denise" was the only recognizable song on his tape, so it sort of got dragged down with the rest of them.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty out of my depth thinking about racial stuff and doo-wop, but I gather it's a pretty fascinating topic.
― Euler, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It might be, but let's not mention it too much or we'll get too many flies on the sherbert.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Too few voters is right - sorry I didn't do my part. (Not that The Flamingos needed my vote...)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Argh, I completely missed this!
Still, my choice won. ^_^
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I would have voted for "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" but I haven't heard most of these.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Can’t figure out what is the most live doo-wop thread so I will post here.
Haven’t had a good station or show to listen to in ages but just started listening to Bob Porter’s Saturday Morning Function on WBGO which seems to fill the bill nicely
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
Hm, there are a few tunes on this poll I am unfamiliar with
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
This was my first thought! i either voted "sincerely" or "my true story"
Anyone with the first Rhino box? Is it worth getting in addition to the collection polled. . .?two reasons i can think of to get it. a) it's like twice as long as what was polled and, b) it's overall an even stronger collection than box 2 imho
― form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 15 December 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
HI DERE
― TS The Students vs The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 May 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link