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I Need You (Paris Hilton song) I Really Love You; I Want You (Janet Jackson song) I Won't Say (I'm in Love) I Wonder Why; I'm on the Outside (Looking In) I'm So Young; In My Room; In the Still of the Night (The Five Satins song) It's Still Rock and Roll to Me; It's Too Late (Carole King song) It's Too Soon to Know
Such composers as Rodgers and Hart (in their 1934 song "Blue Moon"), and Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser (in their 1938 "Heart and Soul") used a I–vi–ii–V-loop chord progression in those hit songs; composers of doo-wop songs varied this slightly but significantly to the chord progression I–vi–IV–V, so influential that it is sometimes referred to as the '50s progression.
Doo-Wops & Hooligans debuted in the United Kingdom at number 79 on October 24, 2010, with first-week sales of 6,775 imported copies. [135] [136] On its first chart week of 2011, it replaced Rihanna's Loud at number one [137] and spent another week atop the chart. [138] Doo-Wops & Hooligans was 2011's second million-selling album in the UK. [136]
The Diablos were inducted into the United In Group Harmony Hall of Fame in 2003. In March 2008 the group was inducted into the Doo-Wop Hall of Fame of America. [12] In 2007, the Metro Times listed "The Wind" at #11 in The 100 Greatest Detroit Songs list, which was the November 11 cover story. [13]
It was a top 20 hit in many eastern cities and it charted nationally, rising to number 69. The follow-up out of Audicon’s 1674 Broadway digs was twice as good. Both sides—the harmony-filled "I Only Want You" and the beautiful Billy Dawn Smith ballad "This Is My Love" –vied for radio play and sales throughout the states.
The current lineup is Johnson, Starling Newsome, Stan Prinston and musical director Theresa Trigg. The Flamingos featuring Terry Johnson appeared on two PBS specials: Rock and Roll at Fifty (in which they were the only group to have more than two songs featured) [21] and Doo Wop Cavalcade: The Definitive Anthology. In 2013, the Flamingos ...
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.
The El Dorados were an American doo-wop group, who achieved their greatest success with the song "At My Front Door", ... also made the R&B top ten in early 1956. [2]