I feel sorry for kids today whose ears are being destroyed by loud, screechy sounds that have no business being called music. THIS is music - harmony, melody and rhythm - it's like velvet to my ears. Am so glad I grew up to it.
My people are a sincere people who do things for the pure joy and love of a thing and would have been happy to get a nice house out of the deal, but nooooo Greed reared its ugly head and they gave them nothing and broke their hearts again ,so they disapeared into the real world .What a disgrace, the way America has treated my people (BLACK PEOPLE)over &over again.
Sha boom is just a fantastic song, so to see the Chords was wonderful, and the Mellows Smoke from your cigarette is a killer, so nice to see Lillian Leach looking and sounding so well. Doo Wop is just brilliant!
This is so Doo-Wop.... My time of starting my life in the early 60's.... If you wasn't as lucky as I.... I am so sorry you didn't get to experience this beautiful part of your life as I did.. So Many years have passed.. But I have kept my music alive... By playing this music and keeping it alive for so many years..... for me... I am still so into Doo-Wops .
so glad I found this documentary, awsome and then some, love this music and considerate an art form. In my family it was passed on to younger generations. People who have never experienced doo wop missed out the talent and emotion that this music brought!!!!!!
Damn ... Lillian Leach and Bobby Mansfield died this year, and Arthur Crier died in 2004. These super-talented vocalists can never be replaced ... replicated maybe, but never replaced!
i salute all the vocal bands of the mid 40's to mid 50's, in my opinion the greatest sounds of all time come from this genre of music.....LET IT ROLL!!
Man, what a show. Deeeeep Doo Wop. I remember hunting for this stuff back in the 80's when I was a teenager. I was drawn to the Wrens, the Larks, Harptones, Jacks, really sincere styles of singing.
My cousins from the Bronx (5) males taught me how to DoWoop and then lead. 8 years later I auditioned for THE SOCIALITES (from the Bronx) and passed like flying colors!
Had to a wonderful time back then li ving in the city the Bronx, Brookly, Ne w Jersey when street corner singing was big in the 50's and 60's life was totally different then so many great g roups were from the east coast I list end to my radio and heard all the mu sic and wished I lived in NYC I'm fro m Kentucky doowop will live forever
Had the pleasure and honor of working with all these wonderful people in the recording studio and on stage. True legends and incredible people. Magical memories.
This is awesome, raised in the Bronx I never knew about the Doo-Wop’s originating in my home town. Dion and the Belmonts came from the Bx as Earl Lewis an the Channels among others. This music needs to make its return, it’s magic to the ears. Thx for the memories.
I think my interest in Doo Wop got a huge boost from the "Crazy Eddie" Doo Wop commercial of the mid 70s in the NYC area...a bunch if greasers singing in the boy's room..looking for that elusive echo...BTW... the Crew Cuts (a white group) covered "ShBoom"...so called 'race music' was frowned upon...but the kids accepted it despite their parents objections...same with the Beatles and Stones years later....
Great video of days gone by. I am lucky enough to have been growing up during the hey day of R&B and Vocal Group Harmony. I am internet DJ and play the music every Friday night from 8-10pm pst.
I HAD THIS VIDEO MANY YEARS AGO, I VIDEO TAPE THIS FROM THE TV I LOST IT, I CRIED!! TONIGHT 5-8-12 IT SHOWS BACK ON YT!! OH I CRIED AGAIN BECAUSE I HAVE IT BACK!! THANKS SO MUCH!
This was the first Rock n' Roll in fact the very first doowop RnR smash hit was Gee by The Crows whom I believe were from Baltimore followed by The Chords Sh-boom However 'Gee' was recorded a year earlier in 53 and released but did better on its second release early in 54 still 2 months before the Chords hit with Sh-Boom.
The first Rock N Roll and pre Doo Wop went further back to the late forties with the Ravens, the Orioles and the Cardinals- the original bird groups. Alan Freed official called the music "Rock N Roll" in 1951. How beautiful to see black and white join together in mutual love and appreciation.
The same music with different names- in the 40s it was called race music, then it became Rhythm N Blues, then Freed coined it Rock n Roll...and Gossert made the term Doo Wop popular in the 70s- even though there were references to Doo Wop in the late 60s. ,,,
Thank you for posting this awesome video. OMG, the memories of those “yesterday’s “. I cried , danced, and smiled. Those were the best days. This was music, I feel sorry for this generation, they have nothing in their so called “music”. How I wished this music would find its way back. Thank you for let me relive those beautiful and wonderful memories ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Doo Wop, the original Rock ''n Roll. It was either the Chords or the Orioles that began this wonderful music back in the day. Thanks for sharing this great interview 😎
Doowop went right back to the 30's but it wasn't Rock n' Roll until The Crows hit with Gee early in 54 on its second release as it was originally recorded and released in 53 on a blue RAMA label and red RAMA on its second 54 release.
@@DoowopJohnnyBoy Listen to the 1950 Ravens recording of "Count every star" and you will hear the first authentic Doo Wop song ever recorded. This is the one.
@@hillcresthiker that my friend is a beautiful Doowop song had on cassette for many years defo one of the first to truly utilise the Doowop rotation progression 🥃👌🏽
I was six years old in 1953 and just starting school. I don't remember hearing my first doowop record until the early 1960's. There was just no such thing as a musically inclined school where I lived in Burnaby, B.C. It was all sports and i was an artist, not an athlete. Now I'm a singer/songwriter longing for those good old days I never knew, How I'd love to sing doowop music with a group but that music is still totally non existent around here.
Rayos, nose como llegué aquí , yo solo quería escuchar a Rosie Hamlin cantando Angel Baby pero woww, me encontré una hermosa joya con este genero 😎😎🔥🔥🔥
I sure do wish I could have transferred to that high school when I was being bullied out of mine in i962. Amazing how a good song can transcend all ages and most races.
The pool story from the Chords was relatable. Did you hear them in "Lovecraft Country"? Fittingly, they started the series with the milquetoast yaddadaDAdada of the Crewcuts, with appropriate comments from the cast, and ended with the Chords' version.
@@nickmad887 ,,,,,,,Yes...I Hear You. I also Love Our Great Music!......I am A Dominant Dj/Music Entertainer...70 yrs. old.....And Agree with you wholeheartedly!
THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENTARY EVER PUT TOGETHER... I HAVE LISTEN TO THIS OVER & OVER...... SUCH A PART OF MY LIFE... I LIVED THIS LIFE....... OH YES....... I JUST LOVE THIS... SO MANY MEMORIES..
If I had a million likes, I would click thumbs up for this sight! I especially loved the Chords and both sides of their records😊. I would always play both sides A & B!LITTLE MAIDEN CHORDCATS Is an example! WONDERFUL!
Sad what happened to those neighbourhoods. The sound of Doo-Wop in the streets and its evocation of community and urban romance are but ghosts in the ghettos of American cities. Nevertheless, this music and it's influence on huge musical acts like The Beatles and The Beach Boys is severely underestimated today.
There was no race barrier among us. Was egged on by the powers that be, as in today's world. We had love and harmony no hate we were ALL brothers and sisters. And era gone but not in our hearts, the sad things are the generations that missed it.
When gangs of the 1950s rode to rumble with another gang whether the gang was black or white there was no prejudice to who was singing on the radio, the groups singing could be black, white or latino.
I'm looking for a Doo wop documentary I saw in the late 80s or early 90s that had a VERY sad ending. it was following a Doo wop group on a Northern European tour where they found they were still celebs. but once back in the US one of the group passed away. the very sad part was that at the funeral, one of the other members was starting to sing a gospel number for his friend, in front of the doc crew, when he too collapsed and died on the spot. I don't remember the group's name but it was quite familiar. but for the life of me I can't find this doc. it might have been for PBS or some other public television network
