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From Barbershop To Doo Wop - Part Three: 1944-1952
Artist | Song | |
The Mills Brothers | Till Then (1944) | |
The Charioteers | No Soup (1945) | |
The Cats & The Fiddle | Shorty's Got To Go (1946) | |
The Ink Spots | Prisoner Of Love (1946) | |
The Deep River Boys | That Chick's Too Young To Fry (1946) | |
The Ravens | Bye Bye Baby Blues (1946) | |
The Delta Rhythm Boys | One O'Clock Jump (1947) | |
The Delta Rhythm Boys | Take The 'A' Train (1947) | |
The Ravens | Ol' Man River (1947) | |
The Ravens | It's Too Soon To Know (1948) | |
The Four Bluebirds | My Baby Done Told Me (1948) | |
The Orioles | Barbara Lee (1948) | |
The Orioles | Tell Me So (1949) | |
The Ravens | Leave My Gal Alone (1949) | |
The Ravens | Someday (1949) | |
The Orioles | I'd Rather Have You Under The Moon (1950) | |
The Dominoes | Chicken Blues (1950) | |
The "5" Royales | Too Much Of A Little Bit (1951) | |
The Swallows | Beside You (1951) | |
The Swallows | It Ain't The Meat (1951) | |
The Orioles | Baby, Please Don't Go (1951) | |
The Cardinals | Shouldn't I Know (1951) | |
The Clovers | Fool, Fool, Fool (1951) | |
The Dominoes | Love, Love, Love (1951) | |
The Royals (aka: The Midnighters) | Moon Rise (1952) | |
The Orioles | It Ain't Gonna Be Like That (1952) | |
The Clovers | Ting-A-Ling (1952) | |
The Marylanders | Make Me Thrill Again (1952) | |
Comment:
I've posted quite a few 'two-parters' lately and most of them could easily be continued onto third and fourth volumes. This one however was always going to be (at least!) a four-parter, since I'd put THIS collection together long before I recorded the two volumes which now preceed it! Starting where the last mix left off (which is hardly surprising since I put that last mix together in order to lead right up to the start of this one!) the first few songs are from the same jazz vocal groups - The Mills Brothers, The Cats & The Fiddle and Ink Spots - which had dominated the vocal group sound for the previous decade or so. The arrival of the so-called 'Bird Groups' like The Ravens and The Orioles in the late 1940s - bringing elements of Rhythm & Blues to the genre - heralded a more recognisably 'Doo Wop' sound, while The Dominoes and The Clovers followed a couple of years later with an even more distinct R&B flavour. Since this was originally designed as a companion to the Roots of Soul and Rock n Roll collections I'd put together for the same brother I avoided using any of the same songs although of course a lot of the same artists crop up in each of the mixes since all three styles share a lot of common ancestry. This meant that I had to go for some less 'obvious' selections by some of the artists on here - such as The Ravens' cover of The Orioles' "It's Too Soon To Know" rather than the original which fitted better on the Roots of Soul mix; or chosing "Chicken Blues" by The Dominoes since "Sixty Minute Man" seemed to belong in the story of Rock n Roll (both musically AND lyrically!) Whenever I do a 'musical evolution' mix (and let's face it... it's something I do quite often!) I'm always particularly fascinated by the period covering the moment when that particular style finally 'arrived' - and in the case of Doo Wop it definitely occurred at some point between 1944 and 1952, and as ever it's a matter of opinion exactly when... but if I had to chose one song from this mix as the first fully-fledged Doo Wop record I'd probably go for the gorgeous Cardinals' ballad "Shouldn't I Know" from 1951. Your mileage may vary!Feedback:
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