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DION: BRONX BLUES: THE COLUMBIA RECORDINGS (1962-1965) (Columbia/Legacy). One of the greatest rock voices of any complexion, caught here, in transition, changing from the king of romantic, street-savvy doo-wop to being a kind of gentle bard of urban blues...
...drivers who feel the need to show off their initials, spouse's name and favorite baseball teams to fellow travelers. While the state has always cast a cold eye toward entries that use nasty ethnic or sexual terms, more than 300 tags with variations of the words dago and wop slipped through. Responding to complaints from the Sons of Italy organization, California has issued an unprecedented recall of dicey plates that sport such titles as DUMDAGO, 14KWOP, DAGOGOD and TOPWOP. Some drivers were allowed to keep their tags, like the '50s music-enthusiast owner of DUWOP39. But many...
...Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...
...Jackson thinks saving car washes and doughnut stores is absurd. Says he: "There's a fake folksiness at work." Although Liebs somewhat agrees, he feels it is necessary to study vernacular architecture. "This century," he says, "is also highways and strips and suburbs." As Chuck Berry told the doo-wop generation, Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news...
DESIGN: The doo-wop architecture of the 1950s -- slices of history or tacky nostalgia...