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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.
The book "Encyclopedia of Rhythm and Blues and Doo-Wop Vocal Groups" By Mitch Rosalsky, says that Bill Brown died In 1956 and Another Source says Bill Brown died In 1958.(Also according to R&B historian Marv Goldberg, Bill Brown died before the mid-70s) David Baughan died On January 1, 1970, from an accidental fall after a night of drinking.
The Heartbeats were a 1950s American doo-wop group best known for their song "A Thousand Miles Away", [1] which charted at No. 53 in the US Billboard listings in 1957.
The Willows were an American doo-wop group formed in Harlem, New York, in 1952.The group was an influential musical act that performed into the mid-1960s and had a Top 20 R&B hit with "Church Bells May Ring", a song which was covered with greater commercial success by The Diamonds.
This is a list of doo-wop musicians. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A The Accents The Ad Libs The Alley Cats Lee Andrews ...
The Passions are an American doo-wop group from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.. The quintet recorded a few demos in 1958, at which time Tony, Albee and Vinny began looking for replacements who were more career-minded.
The Bosstones (also known as The Boss-Tones) were an American musical group who performed in the instrumentally-sparse, a cappella-based harmonic style known as Philadelphia doo-wop. The Bosstones apparently released only one record in their history: "Mope-Itty Mope" b/w "Wings of an Angel" in 1959 on the Boss Records label. [1]
The ' 50s progression (also known as the "Heart and Soul" chords, the "Stand by Me" changes, [1] [2] the doo-wop progression [3]: 204 and the "ice cream changes" [4]) is a chord progression and turnaround used in Western popular music. The progression, represented in Roman numeral analysis, is I–vi–IV–V. For example, in C major: C–Am ...