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The History of Doowop Vol. 1 1930-52

Various Artists
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Catalogue Number: RANDB028

From the Primordial Musical Ooze to the Birth of Doo-wop. What is this glorious music we call doo-wop? It’s a style conveying naivete and young love in a way no genre did before. It’s an attitude harking back to the birth of the teenager in the 1950s. For a lot of us, it represents nostalgia for an era we may or may not have experienced. Technically, doo-wop is an amalgam of five key characteristics that are explored in the 24-page booklet that accompanies this CD and richly evidenced in the choice of recordings. This CD, the first in a set of six, covers the formative years of doo-wop, offering astonishing vocal harmonies, vibrant instrumentation and a fun collection of songs that will not fail to please the amateur while being of interest to the serious collector. Compiled and annotated by Anthony J Gribin & Matthew M Schiff, the Doctors of Doo-Wop.

Disk 1:
Track	Title	Artist
1	Them There Eyes	Bing Crosby & The Rhythm Boys
2	When I Take My Sugar to Tea	The Boswell Sisters
3	Wah-Dee-Dah	The Three Keys
4	I Got Rhythm	The Five Spirits Of Rhythm
5	Black-Eyed Susan Brown	The Four Blackbirds
6	My Prayer	The Ink Spots
7	I Miss You So	The Cats and The Fiddle
8	Stormy Weather	The Golden Gate Quartet
9	My Buddy Blues	The Five Breezes
10	Chattanooga Choo Choo	Tex Beneke and The Four Modernaires
11	Low Down Gal Blues	Lewis Bronzeville Five
12	The Shrine of St. Cecilia	The Andrews Sisters
13	Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer	The Song Spinners
14	The Way You Look Tonight	The Dinning Sisters
15	Till Then	The Mills Brothers
16	It's Only a Paper Moon	Ella Fitzgerald
17	For Sentimental Reasons	Deek Watson & His Brown Dots
18	One Hundred Years from Today	The Cats ‘n’ Jammer Three
19	I Want to Be Loved	Savannah Churchill & The Sentimentalists
20	Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'	The Delta Rhythm Boys
21	I Sold My Heart to the Junkman	The Basin Street Boys
22	Chi-Baba Chi-Baba	The Charioteers
23	P.S. I Love You	The Four Vagabonds
24	Whirlpool	The Cabineers
25	You’re the Dream of a Lifetime	Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes
26	Lullaby	The Ravens
27	It's Too Soon to Know	The Orioles
Disk 2:
Track	Title	Artist
1	A Kiss and a Rose	The Charioteers
2	Double Crossing Blues	Little Esther with The Robins
3	I Challenge Your Kiss	The Four Jacks
4	Count Every Star	The Ravens
5	Yes Sir, That's My Baby	The Clovers
6	The Masquerade Is Over	The Blenders
7	Brown Boy	The Jive Bombers
8	Sentimental Journey	Ruth Brown & The Delta Rhythm Boys
9	The Glory of Love	The Five Keys
10	Fool, Fool, Fool	The Clovers
11	Since You've Been Away	The Swallows
12	Crazy Crazy Crazy	The Five Royales
13	Under a Blanket of Blue	The Cardinals
14	My Reverie	The Larks
15	Sixty Minute Man	The Dominoes
16	Just to See You Smile Again	The Four Buddies
17	I Miss You So	The Orioles
18	It Ain't the Meat	The Swallows
19	I Just Can’t Tell No Lie	The Moonglows
20	When the Lights Go on Again	Herb Kenny & The Comets
21	Red Sails in the Sunset	The Five Keys
22	Have Mercy Baby	The Dominoes
23	Stormy Weather	The Five Sharps
24	Where Are You	The Mello-Moods
25	Every Beat of My Heart	The Royals
26	A Beggar for Your Kisses	The Diamonds
27	Oh Happy Day	The Four Knights
28	Be True	The Vocaleers