An Hour of Lesser Known Oldies From the 1950s & 60s 

The playlist fellow fans of magnificent music! 00:00 Queen of the Starlight Dance -Larry & Mike 02:28 Sleepwalk -Sammy & The Del -Ards 05:09 Wasted Days and Wasted Nights -Freddy Fender 08:03 Satisfied -The Chateus 10:18 Need You -Johnny Jack 12:42 My Lost Love -The Webtones 15:08 Darling Can't You Tell -The Clusters 17:32 My Guardian Angel -Jimmy Breedlove 20:24 This Is My Story -The Valentines 22:40 I Won't Be the Fool Anymore -The Heartbeats 25:00 Impossible -The Velvatones 27:45 Speedillac -Sonny Day & The Versatiles 30:12 Oh Betty -The Pharaohs 33:04 Miss You -The Holidays 35:17 Stand There, Mountain -The Planets ft. Vince Howard 37:57 I Need a Girl -The Marvellos 40:00 The Love You Gave - Dolly Parton w/ The Merry Melody Singers 42:10 Kiss Me Goodnight -Tony Castle 44:12 It Hurts -The Rialtos 46:42 Why Do a You Look At Me -The Medallions 49:07 If You Should Leave Me -The Sinceres 51:32 Your Sweet Love -The Kings 54:14 I'm Not A Know It All -Johnny Wes 56:51 Love Me -The Royal Jesters & The Memphis III

I love Dolly Parton "The Love You Gave".😢 I lost my 19yr Ol' girlfriend in a motorcycle accident 30yrs ago.

I Love all these Doo Wops, I recorded them & I listen to them all of the time, I always listen to oldies and collected them since I was 14 yrs, I’m 61 now… I have thousands of Oldies & doi wops, I’ll always love them forever❤️❤️❤️❤️😊

Those oldies but goodies remind me of you

That music makes me feel sixteen forever

I Need You. Best song of all time.

I listen again and again as long as I live. I just can't get enough of the oldies from the 50's and early 60's and I click on the thumbs up sign on several of you here because I know how you feel when you say Doo Wop brings tears to your eyes. Songs that had meaning and made all us teens feel sad, sentimental, cheery, fall in love and more. I am 83 my memories are remembering those times and I feel the sadness in my gut that such songs are gone.

I GREW UP IN THE ROCK N ROLL ERA I WAS BORN IN 1949 LISTENED TO ALL THE 50"S 60"S 70"S 80"S THE MUSIC IN THE 2022 CANNOT HOLD A CANDLE TO WHAT I GREW UP IN ROCK N ROLL ERA. WE HAD FUN IN THOSE DAYS MISS EM ALL. I GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL IN 1967 . I AM 73 NOW .

Love this music. Hi school grad 1959.the best music ever.still listening to it every day

Thank you for inviting me to travel down memory lane...

Good Lord! this sure brings me back to my youth. I'm 84 now and it's a shame the music of today, I'll just say it, SUCKS. No passion or feeling or slow dancing. Everyone wants to be an individual and not a pair. I wish I could relive those times but alas, my time is almost finished here in this crazy world. RIP to genuine fun and togetherness.

This all brings tears to my eyes. Teenage love. And now, at eighty, there are fewer and fewer folks left that can enjoy it along with me.

1955/1965..the best ten years of musical bliss.

WE ARE ALL GOING BACK TRUST ME. LIFE WAS GREAT AND ALL MY FRIENDS (GIRLS & BOYS. I STARTED DANCING IN 1957 THANK YOU GOD.

Oh dear, that's definitely the music, I love!

I was born in 59 in the 🇬🇧 But this music stays in my mind. For some nostalgic reason it plays through my head when Im ever in a place where the area has a 50s throwback to it. One particular memory is from the late 70's. I was a soldier patrolling my base on the outer perimeters in Germany, a cold winter night, the rain drizzling in the lamp lights, yet this kind of music was running through my head it was so clear as if back in that era. It is still with me today. The best music ever so easy and relaxing absolutely beautiful harmonies and melodies. Long live doo wop.♥️♥️

I love this! The Chateaus and the Freddy Fender songs are the best.

LOVE THE DOO WOP MUSIC! SO GLAD I CAN FIND THIS GREAT DOO WOP MUSIC! DOO WOP MUSIC LIVES ON FOREVER!! GOD BLESS!!

I’m a teenager again. Wonderful, thank you.

This is the best music, I can identify with this,❤🎶🎶💕😍

The music industry today has gone down the pan with so many untalented people talking their way through a song , thank goodness for good old days when music was great keep it coming

Ima start wearing formal clothing and suits. I just love the beautiful music that was produced back then :)

Big hair tight skirts slow dance . . . aah the 50’s . . . I was born in 1944. 🥂🥂👏👏😘

Smashing music

Love the original version of Wasted Days & Wasted Nights. Freddie was a nice man. I got to hang with him.

Just be thankful for the gift of life.. the best is yet to come if you grasp it with faith and and trust..just hold on to all of it you sre able to muster⚓️🕊

Being a "kid " of 73, I was prretty young during tha late fifties, but in 1956 Dad bought me a transistor radio and at night I would listen to KPOI in Honolulu and grew to lLOVE Doo-Wop...Still do! I think its the BEST!!!

I love this archival stuff. Back when people actually played music and had talent, before the robots and corporations took over. More, please!

I agree with Chris Freeman regarding these lesser known doo wop songs! They are as wonderful to slow dance to as the bigger known hits! If you have EVER heard if the disc jockey Porky Chedwick, from Pittsburgh,PA, or more specifically, Homestead, PA, where i grew up, this is the sound that he was so well known for! He gave many groups their start by playing their music when no one else would!!!!! Jive Five gave him credit at an oldies Concert that my late husband and I attended in Pittsburgh, PA many years ago! And you have to know that Pittsburgh is the “Doo Wop Capital of the World!”

💥Thanks for opening the door to heaven! This music is so comforting and filled with memories of long lost friends. Being 80 years old now I look forward to joining them in heaven soon." 😎 Dave-Kansas 2022

For me this is the first-time hearing "oh betty" by the pharaohs. are you kidding me? this song is so good that its hard to believe that its a lesser known recording. I'm 66 and I'm not supposed to know much less like this type of music but it does something to me i cant explain. i have pretty vast knowledge of doo-wop just like much of you guys here and how come i never heard this song. i absolutely love it. i have a couple of co-workers who like doo-wop and one of them said to me give me your top 10 of all time..i told him all i can do is give you my #1 and #2 after that its to hard to rank. So for me my all-time #1 favorite is "in the still of the night" by the five satins and #2 all time for me is Donna the prima Donna by Dion. After that i said to him i can give you my top 100 but ranking them is impossible. well for me at least. it's like / is runaround sue number 3 or is it the wanderer. or neither. should it be..... heart and soul there goes my baby. hats off to Larry. little town flirt blue moon little darlin the stroll leader of the pack...............sorry i can't stop.........LOL i love how you love me the twist let's twist again. you cheated by "the shields" just discovered that one about a year ago..give it a try if you haven't heard it. donna by Richie Valens the angels listened in you're so fine by "the falcons." the loco-motion by little eva maybe by the chantells...what a voice she had so, i didn't rattle all of those off to him. how could you rank something like that. You could but it would watered down for lack of a better word of the moment and but if any of you want to give me your #1 and #2 of all time. I would love to see the two you chose. keep the oldies alive. A time long past where keeping your doors open at night was the norm. or waiting for it to get dark so we could start trick or treating instead of now days where they go to malls and trick or treat and their done by 8pm. Haha we were just getting started. Anyways those were good times I'll never forget just like everyone here. God bless ✝and I believe we all will be together someday. 🎶🎵

Love the doo wop by Dolly. Who knew she did great doo wop.❤❤😊😊

The 5 cent records sold at most malt shops and some record stores. Some of these were covers of hit records. I rarely bought any but I found several years later in yard sales and such. Some of these people did have hits later on under different names . But the 5 cent record is part of Rock and Roll history. It was for kids that couldn't afford the hit records.

Saying thank you is not half enough. You are very kind and the gift of music and memory is much appreciated.

I just love all the saxophone in these songs!!

Lost my husband of 53 years in 2021. We loved listening to oldies...he would have really enjoyed all these. Bringing tears to my eyes❤😢

Born in 66 but rared on Elvis Holly Fats Big O and many more , Heard doo wop at 10 yrs of age on luxemburg radio And i was stunned ❤️❤️

Love this music

The Dolly Parton tune was the earliest I have heard..sounded kinda like Little Millie Small (my boy lollypop) voice. enjoyed all...thanks

This is fantastic music!! Brings back wonderful memories!!

I love this music brings back a lot wonderful memories

When we had feelings an loved each other....

Having lost so many of the early great pioneers of rock& roll and dowop it's wonderful that we can still enjoy our kind of music. RIP Jerry Lee ( killer) Lewis. Thanks so much!😉☮️

WOW, great blast's, I'm a singer here in Spain, 70 yrs old, I sing all the usual, 2 hour show , this is great, I now play this between sets. Thanks, keep bopping

I love this type of music,from my day,missing it so much

Any kind of music can make a Positive I am happy all the time in my mind a

I would've never thought Dolly did Doo wop! 👍❤️

Can't thank you enough. These slow dancing doo woo oldies really go to the HEART of teenage love and romance. They really capture how kids felt so fully at that place and time. While everyone is familiar with the big hits of the time, it was these lesser-known songs, which were played at the same time as the big hits, and were popular, to one extent or another, and then faded out, which really helped to define an era (maybe some of them possibly more so than the big hits, you could argue), it's just that they've faded into obscurity. If you've ever heard a song that you hadn't heard in a REAL LONG time, it can trigger memories shooting back to you in a way the more familiar (and more often played) oldies don't. So I really appreciate your selections. I'm also interested in rare American Bandstand shows from the 1950's. They're available in clips here and there, but not the entire program. There is only one entire show from December 1957. Someone has been posting entire Bandstand programs from the 1960's and 1970's, but I am really interested in entire programs from the 1950's, if they're available. (Boy, talk about a source for some rare and obscure music...!). I realize you might not have any information about these old Bandstand shows. I'm just putting it out there Many thanks, Chris

If you should leave me... Sinceres....best of this bunch imho. classic sound. Write it in stone.

These are nice sides - It's nice to see some rareities instead of common oldies

What a terrific selection, Sir. Thoroughly enjoyed this. There's no beating doo wop ballads. Thank you again.

Before my time but still great music.

This was an hour well spent. Thank you all the best to you.🥇🥇🥇

Some of the flip sides were good,also!

Thank you for this wonderful gift. Comforting and soothing. Many blessings. Amador, Kingdom Christian from sunny Puerto Rico.

This just goes to show there was a lot of 🎶 music out there that didn't get the attention and credit it deserved. Thank you so much for sharing these great tunes ❤️ with us !!!

What a collection! Special kudos for Larry & Mike and Dolly Parton (at age 14)!

Thank very good compilation.

Terrific stuff thanks and best wishes from the u.k 😀👍

Fantastic Bringing back great memories. ❤

Thanks so much from the UK🇬🇧

Nice song. Thanks

I remember when "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" was a hit in the 70's. Did not know there was an earlier version by Freddy Fender. This version does sound a little different.

Great songs. Tks. Much.❤

Thanks for these. I especially like the Jimmy Breedlove Okeh 45, Dolly on Mercury, and The Webtones on MGM. Priceless...

More, Need You by Johnny Jack ( Grecko ) every single week on Bob Livorio, WKPA New Kensington PA.

Very cool music

Spiffy Griffy M.: Gran selección de temas del género "bailables lentos",dónde las parejas,sentían la fusión momentánea de un tabú implantado por unas décadas negacionistas ,algunos al dejar fluir los encantos de la atracción entre los jóvenes.¡ Tengan un buen sendero de exitos !

Hi spiffy!! Thanks for sharing another wonderful awesome golden oldie best music 🎶 🎵 💛 ❤️ 👌 💜 🎶 🎵 💛 ❤️ 👌 💜 ever 🎶 🎵!!

Love this. Right out of my youth.

This is music at its best ❤👍

"The Love You Gave " by Dolly Parton and the Merry Melody Singers is a real buried treasure; virtually a female version of "The Girl of My Best Friend." Nice old song.

You know my kind music. Genius

Doowop forever🎶🎶🎶🎶💕❤️

Hello. I am MUCH younger than these wonderful songs, yet these are wonderful to me. This is the first I have heard of most or all of these, yet I am absolutely enchanted. Such beautiful music --- 2022 music simply is nothing compared to this. Love these songs

Thank you for some great memories.

Born 2943 good music

Thanks for these lovely oldies you are playing for us. Cheers.

I love the 60s and 70s music. The lesser know hits of the 70s are Pasadena by Mumma Bear, Waldo P Emerson Jones by Pickettywitch, My Brother Jake by Free,:Shoo Be Doo Ah by Peter Noone, Iron Horse by Christie, Shut me out by The Matchbox, This song's for you by the Mixtures, She's A Lady by the Hermitts etc etc

Awesome songs,thank -you.

TRhe Clusters' record is my all-time favorite uptempo group harmony record. It was a #25 hit in New York City when new in 1958. The overdubbed woman singing above the lead was the lead of The Deltairs ("Lullaby of the Bells," another great one). -- Bonus points for the great early Dolly Parton track.

WOW...THANKS , I didn't realize I was that old....

Klasse .....

Doo Wop forever❤❤❤❤❤

Oh yes. Love.

I sure miss the good old DoWop music. I listened to this stuff growing up in the 50’s and 60’s.

What a great list of songs, my 2nd favourite dowop song -my lost love- also I have never heard sleep walk vocalised before,thank you so much

Love the old days music when I listen to those songs i realize most of all the 50s singers are so horney they make records that become hits.

Wonderful memories

Awesome 👍

This is what music is at about.

Very nice set here 👍🏼👍🏼

WOW LOVE THIS ALOT OF TALENT THAT DID NOT GET MUCH ATTENTION TILL LATER ON.

Hermoso y agradable el espacio musical de estas añoradas canciones Victoria Novena Region Chile

i swear i can smell the pomade. thanx for this, buddy

The king of the oldies 4. Goodies. Thanks

Great music

Wow. Nice.

Not sure if Paul McCartney had heard this tune before, "Sleepwalk"...? but the middle eight''s chord progression is very close to the middle eight chords of Paul's "Oh Darlin" I almost fell out of my chair just now hearing it!! thanks for posting!!

Exactly what I wanted. But reading your piece I dicaoverd that even the author had no idea who these guys were! Probably a one and done situation Thanks again Spiffy!