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Shawn Stockman and Nathan Morris of the U.S. doo-wop quartet Boyz II Men did more than produce 20-year-old Yuki Koyanagi's latest CD, Intimacy. By executing a transpacific high five, they helped legitimize one of the strangest social trends in the land of the rising sun: Japanese who want to dress, act and sing as black as they...
...White Christmas" (1942), by The Drifters (1953), on "Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters/Rockin' & Driftin'." Berlin may have hated Elvis' version but, according to the liner notes for this double CD, he did approve the Drifters' doo-wop (or, rather, doot-doot) waxing when producer Jerry Wexler sent him an early copy. And why not? T he bass lead will rattle china three houses away, and McPhatter's natural falsetto manages to evoke both Billie Holiday and a child crazed by caffeine on Christmas morning. (The D's also did a nifty "Easter Parade...
...those readers who are improv comedy junkies, who take their a capella in pop or doo-wop style, or who just really like to support worthy causes: There’s an event with your name on it. This Saturday, Project HEALTH is holding its Fall Benefit Concert featuring the perenially crowd-pleasing Opportunes, the Pitches and Immediate Gratification Players...
...Then Leiber and Stoller turned around and masterminded the lushest, most romantic and musically inventive genre rock had yet heard: the Drifters? song book. Their first effort, the King composition "There Goes My Baby," is still one of pop?s weirdest records: a standard doo-wop lament that has four violins and a cello sawing away (a jarring innovation back then) and, like a distant war drum, a timpani that no one knew how to tune and so hits one note no matter what the chord change. When Wexler first heard this bizarre melange, he was more than disappointed...
...panel of teens that chose records and monitored the troops. At 20 he got on radio and quickly established himself as a pioneer rock archivist, running perhaps the first-ever oldies show. And not something simple, like pre-Army Elvis. Wildly obscure stuff, rhythm 'n blues and doo-wop, mostly, all to the ersatz-black syncopation only a Jewish kid could bring...