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Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, [2] mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
Nino and the Ebb Tides were a doo-wop musical group based in the Bronx, New York, formed in 1956. [3]Their first recording, Franny Franny (credited to "The Ebb Tides"), was the result of meeting talent scout Murray Jacobs in 1957 [5] and was widely played by Alan Freed. [6]
Jukebox is the eleventh studio album by Australian pop vocal group Human Nature released in October 2014. It contains covers from the 1950s and 1960s, with one original song, "End of Days" It contains covers from the 1950s and 1960s, with one original song, "End of Days"
Human Nature are an Australian pop vocal group, which formed in 1989, as a quartet featuring Toby Allen, Phil Burton and brothers, Andrew and Mike Tierney.Originally they were established as a doo-wop group, called the 4 Trax, when the members were schoolmates.
[54] [55] Goldmine also named Little Anthony and the Imperials as one of The 20 Greatest Doo-Wop Groups of All Time. [56] Sammy Strain is one of the few artists in popular music history to be a double Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, having been inducted with the O'Jays in 2005 and the Imperials in 2009.
Colorful costumes, endless radio play, and big-money music videos supported the top tunes throughout the '90s. In short, it was a time of musical triumph — and some of the decade’s biggest ...
The Heartbeats began as a quartet in early 1953 in Jamaica, Queens as "The Hearts", consisting of baritone Vernon Sievers, bass Wally Roker, first tenor Albert Crump, and second tenor Robbie Tatum.
Two members of the Puerto Rican doo-wop group The Eternals, popular in the late 1950s with Billboard chart hit, talk of the group's contributions to the genre.