I do!

It's so funny how you could write 30.000 songs with almost the same chord progression.

One famous song that uses the famous progression is Stand By Me. I read it's based on an old Gospel from 1905!

I totally love how Motown uses those gospel chord progressions. It has to be sad those kinda chord progressions are much more frendlier than the blues one, and it fits better with "white" melodies. That's why Motown was so highly popular even along a white audience.

If you own some of the girl groups albums (Martha, Supremes, Marvelettes) you'll see how often the doo-wop progressions was used

But I'm speaking of the 50s doo-wop music. I wonder what it was like to live in the 1950s, digging doo-wop.
I would have preffered it over R'n'B.

I like Sh-Boom, from 1954 I guess. The famous version was done by a white group but it was originally done by a black doo-wop group.

Speaking of Motown i like Whisper You Love Me Boy, Darling Baby, Tears On My Pillow and many more best.

Oh, do you know the Chordettes Mr Sandman and Lollipop? When I look at them I imagien them to be quite conservative and stuff, but I like the intro of "Sandman".

btw, funny Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" doesn't even feature the typical chord sequenze!

Here're some Doo Wop tunes I that treasure...









And many other ones I can't remember for the time being...

Man it was all about the harmonies. the vocals. If you can find an album called

" The Paragons Meet the Jesters" on Jubilee.

This is a classic album especially "The Wind" one of my favorite songs.


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IAintTheOne said:

I have that one

Great set.

Harlepolis said:

BTW...

I don't think there's a song titled "The Wind" in "The Paragons Meet the Jesters" set

I even checked the rest of the Jubilee series, "Whoppers!", "Cadillacs Meet The Orioles", " Boppin’!" and "Rumble".

Who sings it?

Good site

http://www.blogg.org/blog...68854.html

Harlepolis said:

oh, this was sampled by the Fugees, right?

graecophilos said:

Yes. Did you not know it before then?
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Ahhhh. I love Doo-Wop.

Almost entirely created right in NYC... Italian and Black groups RULED Doo-Wop.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Hahaha, no! I was 7 when the Score was released, and I didn't buy music nack then and it would have had to be played on radio but it didn't.

Giovanni777 said:

the Beach Boys were influenced by it. Do you know Surfer Girld??? Aaah, lovely.

Harlepolis said:

The Paragons trust me its on it
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Who DOESN'T love doo-wop?

Timmy84 said:

My mother she thinks it's ridicioulus.

graecophilos said:

Your mother is missing out. How could she NOT like doo-wop.

Timmy84 said:

she pretends to be a Rolling Stones fan, but in all honesty she listen to whatever the radio's playing. She got no real taste at all.

Doo-Wop is awsome, I love all of those old groups, you just don't hear harmonies like that too much these days. My grandmother and I listen to it sometimes, its really great stuff.

Is anyone hip to 'The Del-Vikings'???

'Sea of Love' and 'Come Go With Me'?

mrpunkfunk said:

Come go With Me John Lennon sang when Paul McCartney saw him the first time

graecophilos said:

Shame for her, lol.

graecophilos said:

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I love it my parents listen to this stuff and when I was young I did not appreciate it but I am starting to put in on my IPOD.

Does this count?

Timmy84 said:

Me.

BlaqueKnight said:

Capital C.

As in...

CORNY

CHEESY

CRUSTY

Laaawd