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Somebody help me make a list... I've been listening to Jan & Dean "Baby Talk" today and I love stuff like this... not necessarily your standard doo-wop but more of the stuff with interesting vocal rhythms "baaahhh, daaa bahhhh, daaaa oom whop oom whop oooom whop whop"  Usually bass vocals. 

Stuff like "Blue Moon" etc.  Anybody got anymore that just kill them?  I'm trying to make a CD.

"Good To My Baby" comes to mind, but I want a whole CD of like 20 by everybody. 

Suggestions? 

"I Wonder Why" - Dion & The Belmonts works too. 

Get a job - The Silhouettes (if I'm right)
Barbara Ann
Who put the bomb _ forgot the name


oh man, there are so many... Look at amazon or whatever after doo-wop. The 50s had very much of that

BTW:
Try "She's still talking baby talk" by jan & Dean

I love Dion. He’s coming to my town in August, and I hope he plays my personal favorite, “No One Knows”.

Also, if he played his 1968 self-titled album in it’s entirety, I think I’d soil myself. Love that record, and it is an absolute crime that it is not in print!

It's "Who Put the Bomp" by Barry Mann, one half of the famed Mann/Weil songwriting team. I agree with the song choice. I would also add the following:

"When You Dance" - The Turbans
"Tell Me Why" - RobRoys
"Tonight I Fell In Love" - Satins
"Tonight (Could Be The Night)" - The Velvets
"I Need Someone" - The Belmonts (after Dion)

Any doo-wop compilation damn well better have 'Speedo' by the Cadillacs.

Yeah, that one's good.  I've got to try the other ones listed. 

more "bop"/doo-wop songs if you didn't know about them:

Jan & Dean: Tennessee, Sunday Kind of Love, Heart and Soul
Jennie Lee - Jan & Arnie [pre Jan & Dean]

Did anyone ever notice that the "bop bop a diddle it" on "Speedo" sounds a lot like the "bop bop a diddle it" on The Beach Boys' "Add Some Music To Your Day". The a capella version on the Hawthorne CD really brings it out...

If you can find a single copy of the Cadets Stranded in the Jungle get it.   The flip side, side B, has a tune called I Want You.  One of my all time favorite R&B "do wop" sort of songs.

There has to be hundreds of great songs like this lost out there on B sides, never to be heard again, even with the proliferation of music on CD.  Some of the better used record stores offer a chance to get ahold of some of the lesser known A sides of popular do wop and R&B groups.........as well as those B sides that never made it to albums.

Frank Zappa does great doo wop.

I love Doo-Wop. If anyone's looking for a good sampler CD instead of putting down alot of green for the Doo-Wop box sets, I heartily recommend this compilation:

Street Corner Serenade
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JFV7.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)

tracklist:
1. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - The Teenagers, featuring Frankie Lymon
2. Whispering Bells - The Dell-Vikings, featuring Krips Johnson
3. Speedo - The Cadillacs, with Jesse Powell Orch.
4. Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) - The Penguins
5. Little Star - The Elegants
6. I Wonder Why - Dion & The Belmonts
7. Book Of Love - The Monotones
8. Sincerely - The Moonglows
9. Come Go With Me - The Dell Vikings
10. Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters
11. Hushabye - The Mystics
12. There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
13. I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
14. A Teenager In Love - Dion & The Belmonts
15. 16 Candles - The Crests
16. Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
17. Oh What A Nite - The Dells
18. There's A Moon Out Tonight - The Capris
19. Blue Moon - The Marcels
20. Get A Job - The Silhouettes
21. Barbara Ann - The Regents
22. In The Still Of The Nite - The Five Satins

Incredible selection. Every one of 'em are classics. BUY. NOW.

an obvious one for Smiley fans-

Gee- The Crows

That compilation looks real good, I only have eyes for you is brilliant, its real spooky sounding, like something from outer space.

@Summer_Days: Looks great. Are these the original recordings or re-recordings?

More (early) Jan & Arnie / Jan & Dean examples . . .


Bonnie Lou - (Jan & Arnie) - 1958

The Beat that Can't Be Beat - (Jan & Arnie) - 1958

Jeanette, Get Your Hair Done - 1959

There's a Girl - 1959

My Heart Sings - 1959

White Tenneis Sneakers - 1960

Cindy - 1960

Gee - 1960

Judy's An Angel - 1961

Don't Fly Away - 1961

Wanted, One Girl - 1961

Frosty (The Snow Man) - 1962



M.

As far as I know, they are the originals. They sound downright vintage to me! Beautiful stuff.

Sure, it could use stuff like 'Gee', etc... but what's there makes fora good sampler. I'm still thinking about getting the Doo Wop box sets to satiate my appetite.

This for me is the greatest doo-wop song of all time----and one of the greatest 45s: "I Only Have Eyes For You" by The Flamingos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBeL0acxpzI

It is, very good.  Always sounds so sad to me, I don't think it's supposed to be, though.

A similar one that I always loved and thought was just smmmmmmokey was "You Belong To Me" by the Dufrees.... lots of others did it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEBErVs0fY


The Dufrees did a great one called 'Have You Heard" too....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uugCEibK1Q

Very nice, those two. But "IOHEFY" is so unusual in comparison. Those three opening guitar chords seem to open up a door into another world of sound and colour. The middle-eight is relatively earthbound but the rest is like nothing else before or since. Those shoo-bop-shoo-bops call to mind much later vocal groups like The Dells----soul with a touch of aggro. I remember hearing the end as a child when it got a lone play on BBC Radio and it scared the hell out of me! That record is a law unto itself...

I only just noticed this remark from nine years ago. I couldn't agree more, sir. :=)  

And guess what!

http://peternreum.blogspot.nl/2015/09/my-search-for-perfect-record-by-peter.html

You're like hypehat, john. Smwr on the board he listed it his favorite doo wop song or some such. Search "flamingo" by user "hypehat".

For me, words "great" & "doo wop" don't go well together. It's like saying "ballet is exciting" (yaawn). Anyway, I do have favorite, ofc. I can find favorite in any genre. Lemme introduce the fabulous The Tokens! go to Youtube.

"Heavenly Father" by the Supremes with Flo on lead, particularly the middle eight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB_jRWIFA44 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB_jRWIFA44)

I'm not allowed to hear it, unfortunately, but I did catch a few seconds of it here (no middle eight, sad to say):

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003LYZWAU/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk38

Very nice indeed. That's when they were The Primettes, right?

Not sure. I have it as a bonus track on a reissue of Florence's solo album. It's an older song, so there may be other good versions of it out there.

Not sure how much of this is reliable but it makes for an interesting read:

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-primettes-mn0000415096 

This Mary Wilson-led B-side from 1960 is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5CmbFbYII

That flute reminds me of the alternative version of the Boys' "I'm So Young". Great piano too...
 

Found this cool track in Winamp by typing "doo wop": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ptDgMOzc0

Lead by Earl Carroll, sings "...but my real name is Mr. Earl". After the Cadillacs would join the Coasters.

A doo wop classic!

This next one has always intrigued me. "Daddy's Home" has a most curious history attached to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8DICjr5jBI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shep_and_the_Limelites

Here's one I was alerted to only today. "You" by The Aquatones features the dulcet tones of 17-year-old Lynne Nixon (see the wiki page). Their lone hit just missed the US top 20 in 1958. Truly wonderful stuff to melt the JK heart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narWoVsof_k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aquatones

I love this 12-year-old description. Indeed, The Flamingos' wondrous "I Only Have Eyes For You" sounds like nothing on earth!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o

Ron always did have good taste. I believe this group is a favourite of yours too, RR (thinking of that other forum)...

Ron's swell sport, nice to discuss music with. Maybe he'll chime in.

Indeed, it would be nice. But he hasn't put in an appearance since May 2016 so I rather fear he's left the fold. >:(

I'm well aware. And? Summer_Days appeared after long hiatus, Ron may as well.

There's no need to shout. ;D I hope you're right. ;)

Some pensive doo wop to suit the JK mood right now:   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZh6ZSRoYg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skyliners

My overall fave in the doo wop category would be RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET, by ____________.

The Five Keys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_20n3QljmA

The Platters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOpwhxn1wE

The Jarmels?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYphb6-ZC8U

None of the above?

That's the reason I left it blank. I've liked the versions I've heard. The Five Keys & The Spiders versions two that I really like.

Lots by The Spiders on YouTube...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPhURL_cI0KWPmK8GYdLo51Lqg3FeucC

...but not "RSITS". Pity. ???

I do appreciate the early things but it's "baroque" doo wop that really does it for me, stuff like Jive Five's "My True Story":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glOMdK8gfbo

Ritchie Valens's ballad "Donna" has always seemed to me to be doo wop sans vocal harmonies. It's just the mood it projects; and the guitar lines suggest voices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMcHbh6HBDk

Oddly, there's another doo-woppish song called "Donna" by 10cc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SThPj7MPX2o

Check out "Ten Commandments of Love" by The Moonglows. I consider it to be one of the few truly "perfect songs"(It's on par with God Only Knows, a few Beatles songs, etc). I was absolutely blessed to be able to witness Harvey Fuqua(who sang on the original record) and his Moonglows group perform this song in person.

Indeed, a wonderful song, Jay. I love those spoken "echoes"! To say nothing of the intro and the outro. ::)

Wow, lucky you to have heard HF sing it live!

And I'm back to this song again today. "Since I Don't Have You" was next in line after I linked The Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes For You" across at Hoffman...

I've recently become a bit can of The Flamingos. I got a CD of their that collects all the original singles(both A and B sides) from 1953-61, and I highly recommend it.

What I've heard of their other stuff wipes the floor with most other doo wop material but "IOHEFY" is in a field of one, in any context. So thanks for the recommendation, Jay, but I'll do my stick-in-the-mud act (again) and stick with that one otherworldly song--a little world all of its own which on entering you just don't want to leave--or I don't anyway. ::)

I totally agree about  IOHEFY! I consider it one of the greatest records of all time, by anybody. "Otherworldly" is definitively a great word to describe it. The whole mood of the song is quite eerie to me. And that high voice echoing in the background is downright hair raising! It's best listened to in the dark. But I also love "Golden Teardrops", and "Plan For Love".

Reading about "Fast Freight" (an instrumental by Arvee Allens aka Ritchie Valens), I noticed there was mention of Ritchie having played on stuff by stablemates The Carlos Brothers, not least the awesome "Tonight":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTm_LbmseXo

http://doo-wop.blogg.org/carlos-brothers-c26504232 (http://doo-wop.blogg.org/carlos-brothers-c26504232)

These are Lincoln Fig and the Dates (what's in a name?) singing "Way Up" (year unknown). If the group's name isn't bizarre enough, how about the first verse?

"Wo-o-o-ohhhhh
Way up in the sky
There is the girl I love
She kicked the bucket, she die"

What???!!!  :o Lovely song though... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXikmXvrVEs