Doo Wop Music
A genre of the 1950s and early 1960s
...When a song was really a song, having a real melody, singable & hummable—
written by the people who actually sang it, and lyrics that actually made sense.
It might take me quite a while to get around to developing this page. So in the meantime, I offer this:
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1. A link to the wonderful Brian’s Doo Wop and to the Doo Wop Cafe.
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2. Just this one glorious taste, below.
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How sad that with the recent passing of Zola Taylor, only one member
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of those earlier Platters is still with us, bass singer Herb Reed.
You already know doo wop—for example, you know the two most famous songs of this era, “In the Still of the Night” and “Earth Angel.” And you know the Platters (above), who became the most famous group, but there were hundreds and hundreds of doo wop groups, some of which will be featured here when this page is developed.