#doowop — Public Fediverse posts
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"The Great Pretender" is a #doowop song recorded by American band #ThePlatters and released in November 1955. It was written and composed by #BuckRam, the group's manager and producer who was earlier a successful songwriter; lead vocals are by #TonyWilliams. The song reached No. 1 on #Billboard's Top 100, and No. 5 on the UK charts. The song has been covered by a number of singers, most notably by #FreddieMercury, whose version reached No. 4 on the UK charts.
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"The Great Pretender" is a #doowop song recorded by American band #ThePlatters and released in November 1955. It was written and composed by #BuckRam, the group's manager and producer who was earlier a successful songwriter; lead vocals are by #TonyWilliams. The song reached No. 1 on #Billboard's Top 100, and No. 5 on the UK charts. The song has been covered by a number of singers, most notably by #FreddieMercury, whose version reached No. 4 on the UK charts.
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"The Great Pretender" is a #doowop song recorded by American band #ThePlatters and released in November 1955. It was written and composed by #BuckRam, the group's manager and producer who was earlier a successful songwriter; lead vocals are by #TonyWilliams. The song reached No. 1 on #Billboard's Top 100, and No. 5 on the UK charts. The song has been covered by a number of singers, most notably by #FreddieMercury, whose version reached No. 4 on the UK charts.
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"The Great Pretender" is a #doowop song recorded by American band #ThePlatters and released in November 1955. It was written and composed by #BuckRam, the group's manager and producer who was earlier a successful songwriter; lead vocals are by #TonyWilliams. The song reached No. 1 on #Billboard's Top 100, and No. 5 on the UK charts. The song has been covered by a number of singers, most notably by #FreddieMercury, whose version reached No. 4 on the UK charts.
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"The Great Pretender" is a #doowop song recorded by American band #ThePlatters and released in November 1955. It was written and composed by #BuckRam, the group's manager and producer who was earlier a successful songwriter; lead vocals are by #TonyWilliams. The song reached No. 1 on #Billboard's Top 100, and No. 5 on the UK charts. The song has been covered by a number of singers, most notably by #FreddieMercury, whose version reached No. 4 on the UK charts.
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#Doowop is een vorm van #rhythmandblues die gekenmerkt wordt door a capella met een pakkende melodische lijn en een eenvoudige beat met weinig of geen instrumentatie. De stijl ontstond onder de Afro-Amerikaanse jeugd in de steden in het noordoosten van de Verenigde Staten en kende zijn hoogtepunt in de #50s en #60s Vaak zong het achtergrondkoortje ritmische nietsbetekenende woorden of onomatopeeën, waaruit ook de naam van de stijl te herleiden is.
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"I Wonder Why" is a #doowop song, written by Melvin Anderson with lyrics by Ricardo Weeks. The song was first recorded by #DionAndTheBelmonts.
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Will hell as be happy as the road that leads to it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpxmWLFqrshttps://word.undead-network.de/2026/05/06/will-hell-as-be-happy-as-the-road-that-leads-to-it/
#beyourself #devil #doowop #hell #music #mylife #race #rockabilly -
Will hell as be happy as the road that leads to it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpxmWLFqrshttps://word.undead-network.de/2026/05/06/will-hell-as-be-happy-as-the-road-that-leads-to-it/
#beyourself #devil #doowop #hell #music #mylife #race #rockabilly -
Will hell as be happy as the road that leads to it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpxmWLFqrshttps://word.undead-network.de/2026/05/06/will-hell-as-be-happy-as-the-road-that-leads-to-it/
#beyourself #devil #doowop #hell #music #mylife #race #rockabilly -
Will hell as be happy as the road that leads to it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpxmWLFqrshttps://word.undead-network.de/2026/05/06/will-hell-as-be-happy-as-the-road-that-leads-to-it/
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"Come Go with Me" is a song written by C. E. Quick (a.k.a. Clarence Quick), an original member (bass vocalist) of the American #doowop vocal group #theDelVikings. The original audition version of the song was recorded by The Del-Vikings in 1956. It was released in July 1957 on #GeorgeGoldner's Luniverse Records as Come Go with the Del Vikings, after distribution of the final, hit version by #DotRecords in January 1957. The group's lead vocalist has long been disputed.
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#KennethAnger (1927–2023)
Tout évolue et change constamment. C’est ça, la vie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWGOggfv2F8&list=RDRWGOggfv2F8&start_radio=1
#TheFlamingos #DooWop #RNB #Music
#socialmedia #tvhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIh4lAXwx-o&list=RDxIh4lAXwx-o&start_radio=1
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Jeder zweite KI-Song ist entweder Doo-Wop oder Motown.
Das liegt daran, dass diese Genres sehr generisch sind. Man könnte auch sagen, jedes Lied klingt gleich. Allerdings stimmt das überhaupt nicht und da sieht man auch, wo die Grenzen von KI-Musik liegen. Generische Genres leben von der Persönlichkeit, dem Charisma und dem Talent der Menschen. Zur Not muss man halt nachts durch die Straßen laufen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_DNRtEkxI
https://word.undead-network.de/2026/04/28/jeder-zweite-ki-song-ist-entweder-doo-wop-oder-motown/
#ai #doowop #ki #music #real #street #VelvetCandles -
WPLJ - Four Deuces - #DooWop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiyMC1xhDs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb3Cu_Xrt_g&list=RDfb3Cu_Xrt_g&start_radio=1
1955 Salinas, California-based R&B vocal group record featuring Jim Dunbar (lead), Luther McDaniels (2nd tenor), Orvis Lee Teamer (baritone), and Henry Shufford (bass). covered by The Mothers of Invention on the 'Burnt Weeny Sandwich' album, released on February 9, 1970.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Zappa/comments/19bthsh/the_four_deuces_wpljwhite_port_lemon_juice/
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Free download codes:
Auditory Cortex - Abrazos de Luz
"Una cancion para mi madre querida."
#indierock #psychedelicrock #spanishrock #oldies #doowop #music
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Free download codes:
Auditory Cortex - Abrazos de Luz
"Una cancion para mi madre querida."
#indierock #psychedelicrock #spanishrock #oldies #doowop #music
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Free download codes:
Auditory Cortex - Abrazos de Luz
"Una cancion para mi madre querida."
#indierock #psychedelicrock #spanishrock #oldies #doowop #music
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Free download codes:
Auditory Cortex - Abrazos de Luz
"Una cancion para mi madre querida."
#indierock #psychedelicrock #spanishrock #oldies #doowop #music
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Free download codes:
Ultimate Rick Jones - The Senseless Waste of a Beautiful Thing
"A toe tapper about memory and the weird algebra of grief."
#acoustic #piano #americana #country #saxophone #50s #grief #doowop #musclecars #music
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"Barbara Ann" is a song written by #FredFassert that was first recorded by American #doowop vocal group #theRegents as "Barbara-Ann". Their version was released in 1961 and reached No.13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A more well-known version of the song was recorded by #theBeachBoys for their 1965 in-house live album #BeachBoysParty In December, "Barbara Ann" was issued as a single with the B-side "#GirlDontTellMe".
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"One Summer Night" is a song by American #doowop group #theDanleers. Their one big #hit single (and their debut single), "One Summer Night" reached number four on the #Billboard #BlackSingles #chart, and number seven on the #BestSellingPopSinglesInStores chart in 1958. The single sold over one million copies.
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"Tears on My Pillow" is a #doowop song written by Sylvester Bradford and #AlLewis in 1958. The composition was first recorded by #LittleAnthonyAndTheImperials on #EndRecords and was that group's debut recording under that name. Their original recording of the song became a #Billboard top-10 hit, peaking at No. 4 and No. 3 in #Canada, and was the Imperials' first million-seller. It was also a two-sided hit, with its flip side.
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"Eddie My Love" is a 1956 #dooWop song. According to #BMI and #ASCAP, the song was written by #MaxwellDavis (BMI), #AaronCollins, Jr. (ASCAP), and Sam Ling (BMI). Maxwell Davis played sax on the Teen Queens record. Aaron Collins was the brother of the Teen Queens. Sam Ling was an alias of #SaulBihari, co-founder of #Modern, #RPM, and other labels; Bihari.
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"Eddie My Love" is a 1956 #dooWop song. According to #BMI and #ASCAP, the song was written by #MaxwellDavis (BMI), #AaronCollins, Jr. (ASCAP), and Sam Ling (BMI). Maxwell Davis played sax on the Teen Queens record. Aaron Collins was the brother of the Teen Queens. Sam Ling was an alias of #SaulBihari, co-founder of #Modern, #RPM, and other labels; Bihari.
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"Eddie My Love" is a 1956 #dooWop song. According to #BMI and #ASCAP, the song was written by #MaxwellDavis (BMI), #AaronCollins, Jr. (ASCAP), and Sam Ling (BMI). Maxwell Davis played sax on the Teen Queens record. Aaron Collins was the brother of the Teen Queens. Sam Ling was an alias of #SaulBihari, co-founder of #Modern, #RPM, and other labels; Bihari.
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"Eddie My Love" is a 1956 #dooWop song. According to #BMI and #ASCAP, the song was written by #MaxwellDavis (BMI), #AaronCollins, Jr. (ASCAP), and Sam Ling (BMI). Maxwell Davis played sax on the Teen Queens record. Aaron Collins was the brother of the Teen Queens. Sam Ling was an alias of #SaulBihari, co-founder of #Modern, #RPM, and other labels; Bihari.
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"Eddie My Love" is a 1956 #dooWop song. According to #BMI and #ASCAP, the song was written by #MaxwellDavis (BMI), #AaronCollins, Jr. (ASCAP), and Sam Ling (BMI). Maxwell Davis played sax on the Teen Queens record. Aaron Collins was the brother of the Teen Queens. Sam Ling was an alias of #SaulBihari, co-founder of #Modern, #RPM, and other labels; Bihari.
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"Come Go with Me" is a song written by C. E. Quick (a.k.a. Clarence Quick), an original member (bass vocalist) of the American #doowop vocal group #theDelVikings. The original audition version of the song was recorded by The Del-Vikings in 1956. It was released in July 1957 on #GeorgeGoldner's Luniverse Records as Come Go with the Del Vikings, after distribution of the final, hit version by #DotRecords in January 1957. The group's lead vocalist has long been disputed.
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@MirrorAyako @startrek
#AllStarTrek #music #DooWopNot as good as Vic, but still kinda Trek if you think about it.
... one of the very first racially integrated vocal groups of the '50s: Texas-born lead tenor Herman Chaney (aka Sonny Chaney) and Louisiana-born bass singer Charles Middleton were both black, while Detroit-born second tenor Valerio "Val" Poliuto was white and baritone Manuel "Manny" Chavez was a Hispanic and the only native Californian in the group
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"One Summer Night" is a song by American #doowop group #theDanleers. Their one big #hit single (and their debut single), "One Summer Night" reached number four on the #Billboard #BlackSingles #chart, and number seven on the #BestSellingPopSinglesInStores chart in 1958. The single sold over one million copies.
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"Happy Days" is a song written by #NormanGimbel and #CharlesFox. It is the theme of the 1970s television series #HappyDays. The song was written and performed in a style similar to 1950s rock and roll appropriate to the era depicted in the series, with male vocals singing #doowop influenced harmonies, and can be heard during the TV show's opening and closing credits as it runs in #perpetualRerunSyndication.
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"Maybe" is a song with words and music originally credited to #EndRecords owner #GeorgeGoldner and "Casey". The co-writing credit was later transferred to #RichardBarrett. Arlene Smith, lead singer of #theChantels, is believed to be an uncredited co-writer. The song was first recorded by the Chantels on October 16, 1957, in a #doowop style with Barrett playing piano, and released in December 1957. It climbed the #charts in January 1958.
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"Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" is a #doowop style #noveltySong from 1961 by the American songwriter #BarryMann, who wrote it with #GerryGoffin. It was originally released as a single on the #ABCParamount label (10237).
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"One Summer Night" is a song by American #doowop group #theDanleers. Their one big #hit single (and their debut single), "One Summer Night" reached number four on the #Billboard #BlackSingles #chart, and number seven on the #BestSellingPopSinglesInStores chart in 1958. The single sold over one million copies.
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Free download codes:
Auditory Cortex - Abrazos de Luz
"Una cancion para mi madre querida."
#indierock #psychedelicrock #spanishrock #oldies #doowop #music
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"I Wonder Why" is a #doowop #song, #written by Melvin Anderson with lyrics by Ricardo Weeks. The song was first #recorded by #DionAndTheBelmonts.
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"Tears on My Pillow" is a #doowop song written by Sylvester Bradford and #AlLewis in 1958. The composition was first recorded by #LittleAnthonyAndTheImperials on #EndRecords and was that group's debut recording under that name. Their original recording of the song became a #Billboard top-10 hit, peaking at No. 4 and No. 3 in #Canada, and was the Imperials' first million-seller. It was also a two-sided hit, with its flip side.
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Ultimate Rick Jones - The Senseless Waste of a Beautiful Thing
"A toe tapper about memory and the weird algebra of grief."
#acoustic #piano #americana #country #saxophone #50s #grief #doowop #musclecars #music
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"Made You Look" is a song by the American singer-songwriter #MeghanTrainor from her fifth major-label studio album, #TakinItBack (2022). Trainor wrote it with songwriter #SeanDouglas and its producer, #FedericoVindver. #EpicRecords released it as the album's second single on October 31, 2022. A #doowop song, it was inspired by Trainor's insecurities about body image and encourages listeners to embrace their natural beauty and confidence.
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My choice for #SaturdayOnStage goes way back in history. The Ravens were one of the most influential early rhythm and blues vocal groups. Here's a rare January 2, 1949 appearance on the Talk of the Town TV show, which was hosted by Ed Sullivan:
The Ravens: My Sugar Is So Refined (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f3gm-681LIThe line-up is (from left to right) Richie Cannon (baritone), Maithe Marshall (1st tenor/falsetto), Jimmy Ricks (bass) and Leonard Puzey (2nd tenor). The pianist is Howard Biggs, who also had a profilic career as a band leader, arranger and composer.
#music #ravens #jimmyricks #howardbiggs #rhythmandblues #doowop #edsullivan
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"Rubber Biscuit" is a #novelty #doowop song performed by the vocals-only team #theChips, who recorded it in 1956. It was covered by #theBluesBrothers on their 1978 debut album, #BriefcaseFullOfBlues, among many other artists, as well as being featured in the 1973 film #MeanStreets.
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"Only You (And You Alone)" (often shortened to "Only You") is a #doowop song recorded by American band #ThePlatters and released in June 1955. It was written and composed by #BuckRam, the group's producer and manager who was earlier a successful songwriter; lead vocals are by #TonyWilliams. The song charted in the US, the UK and Belgium. Other well-known versions have been recorded by #LouisArmstrong, #TheHilltoppers, #FranckPourcel and #RingoStarr.
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I just found out that there's a large new selection of vintage doowop videos available on YouTube. These were filmed at one of the first "revival" shows at the New York Academy of Music in 1970.
The technical quality is not great, as there was only one camera, and much of the footage is very grainy. But then again, where else you can see many of these groups performing with the original or nearly original line-up, with proper orchestral backing, and with the original doowop era still a fairly recent memory?
My #SaturdayOnStage pick for today is a perfomance by the Skyliners, with only Jackie Taylor missing from the original line-up of the group. They start of with their version "Pennies from Heaven", which I have never really cared for, but get to the good stuff at around three minutes with "This I Swear", one of my all-time favorite doowop ballads. Jimmy Beaumont's vocals are just about as incredible as they had been on the original record 11 years earlier.
The Skyliners: Pennies From Heaven /This I Swear / Lonely Way / Since I Don't Have You (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxqISwf7rY#music #doowop #Skyliners #JimmyBeaumont #JanetVogelRapp #ThisISwear #SinceIDon'tHaveYou
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Musical Interlude: While driving home in a very light rain, and some leaves sticking to my windshield, this song played on my stereo, and it was so flippin' perfect I just had to share it...
"Autumn Leaves," performed by the Coasters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUnen1O5Q4
#MusicalInterlude #Coasters #DooWop #RandB #Vocal #SeptemberSongs
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"Runaround Sue" is a #rockAndRoll song (in a modified #doowop style), originally a US No. 1 #Hot100 hit (No. 4 on the #HotRAndB chart) for the singer #Dion during 1961, after he split with #theBelmonts. It was written by Dion with #ErnieMaresca, and tells the story of a disloyal lover. The song ranked No. 351 on the #RollingStone list of "#The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime". In 2002, Dion was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame for "Runaround Sue".
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"Runaround Sue" is a #rockAndRoll song (in a modified #doowop style), originally a US No. 1 #Hot100 hit (No. 4 on the #HotRAndB chart) for the singer #Dion during 1961, after he split with #theBelmonts. It was written by Dion with #ErnieMaresca, and tells the story of a disloyal lover. The song ranked No. 351 on the #RollingStone list of "#The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime". In 2002, Dion was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame for "Runaround Sue".
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"Runaround Sue" is a #rockAndRoll song (in a modified #doowop style), originally a US No. 1 #Hot100 hit (No. 4 on the #HotRAndB chart) for the singer #Dion during 1961, after he split with #theBelmonts. It was written by Dion with #ErnieMaresca, and tells the story of a disloyal lover. The song ranked No. 351 on the #RollingStone list of "#The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime". In 2002, Dion was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame for "Runaround Sue".
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"Runaround Sue" is a #rockAndRoll song (in a modified #doowop style), originally a US No. 1 #Hot100 hit (No. 4 on the #HotRAndB chart) for the singer #Dion during 1961, after he split with #theBelmonts. It was written by Dion with #ErnieMaresca, and tells the story of a disloyal lover. The song ranked No. 351 on the #RollingStone list of "#The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime". In 2002, Dion was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame for "Runaround Sue".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcILsIE0j-I
