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The Dovells in 1962. The Dovells were an American doo-wop group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia in 1957, under the name 'The Brooktones'. [1] The original members were Arnie Silver, Len Borisoff, Jerry Gross (alias Summers), Mike Freda, and Jim Mealey (alias Danny Brooks). Their first single "No, No, No" was a local hit for The ...
The Dovells added dance themed lyrics and vocals to their cover of the song and it was released in 1963 on their album of the same name. Although unrelated to specifically describing the much later music genre of the same name the song has the first known instance of the phrase "hip hop" in a recording, the lyric "...you gotta slop, bop, flip flop, hip hop, never stop".
Leonard Warren Borisoff (June 12, 1942 – November 5, 2020), [2] known professionally by the stage name Len Barry, was an American singer, songwriter, lyricist, record producer, author, and poet. Life and career
In mid-1967, Cameo-Parkway entered into a short-lived distribution pact with MGM Records and released four more albums (two on Cameo, one on Parkway and one on Vando), and three more singles (one on Parkway and two on Vando). Cameo's final single, "Billy Sunshine" by Evie Sands (KC-2002), was originally released with the red and yellow "CP ...
In 1962, the Dovells' fellow Cameo-Parkway artist Chubby Checker released his rendition of "Bristol Stomp" on the soundtrack album for the Columbia Pictures movie Don't Knock the Twist. Checker performs lead vocals with the Dovells providing backup. Though not as instrumentally polished as the Dovells' original, this take added more pep.
All Music - Rock & Roll (Top Albums) - 5; Illinois Entertainer's 50 Great Albums (A Rock Time Capsule) [citation needed] - 6; Dagbladet's 25 Best Rock and Pop Albums of the Century - 7; Rolling Stone's 200: The Essential Rock Collection - 8; Charlie Gillett and Simon Frith's 100 Essential Rock Albums, published in Rock File 3 by Panther (1975) - 9
The album raised over $1 million in support of anti-apartheid efforts. The primary goal of the album and foundation was to draw attention to South Africa's racist policy of apartheid and to support a cultural boycott of the country. [136] Van Zandt was a part of the 1989 charity single, "Spirit of the Forest", dedicated to saving rain forests ...
In 1962, The Dovells remade "Mope-itty Mope" as "The Mope-itty Mope Stomp". [ 2 ] In 1983, a ska punk band, calling themselves The Bosstones, was formed in Boston , Massachusetts.