How Doo-Wop changed everything
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2017
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This educational video essay compiles clips and audio to demonstrate the depth to which Doo-Wop and 50s-era vocal groups influenced the development of early rock 'n roll, and its lasting legacy on today's pop music. - Розваги
0:00 Rosie & The Originals - My Darling Forever
0:33 Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock
0:44 The Vanguards - Moonlight
0:57 The Mills Brothers - Till Then
1:20 The Mills Brothers - How'm I Doin', Hey Hey
2:00 Curtis lee - Gee How I Wish You Were Here
3:12 The Orioles - It’s Too Soon To Know
4:24 The Harptones - My Memories Of You
5:26 The Teenagers - I’m Not A Juvenile Delinquent
5:51 Dodie Stevens - Pink Shoelaces
6:04 The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
6:44 The Coasters - Sh-boom Life Could Be A Dream
I think that that last piece you list, Sh-Boom, was actually by The Chords.
@29BKing it is by the chords but the coasters are the ones singing in the video
did you know that It took me an hour to find all the songs? Im 12 and have been listening to oldies since I was 11 I don’t even see the use of phones anymore *sigh*
Good job!
absolute madlad The last is the chords, not the coasters
I'm glad I found a person close to my age who shares the same taste in music. Also the history behind it.
Spread the word to people around your age to keep this music alive. The more you search YT, the more gems you'll uncover.
I feel the same way I’m only 15
Can't forget Dion DiMucci and the Belmonts. Those guys are legends.
My dad worked a summer job in late 50’s early 60’s for a large city’s municipal amphitheater. He met a lot of the DooWop stars. He said the only ones that were jerks were Dion & the Belmonts. He said this was also the first time he ever saw someone smoke these ‘funny cigarettes’. 😁. Btw he got to act as a body-double decoy for his idol - Johnny Mathis!! When it was time to take JM back to his hotel, the put Johnny’s jacket he wore in the concert over Dad’s head and rushed him to the limo through the crowd of wild, screaming girls. He said it was like beatlemania and kind of scary. By the time he got to the car, JM had gone out the stagehand’s door and got away clean in a regular car. The limo went around the block and dropped dad off. What an adventure. Man, if those girls only knew Johnny had NO interest in women back then. I know dad would have been freaked out too!
@@mattkaustickomments Today on things that never happened. We got
Matt Kustom Kostumes.
@@nicomacheanc9837 Whatever. It’s true. Disbelieve what you want.
@@mattkaustickomments Carlo Freddie and Angelo are/were some of the nicest guys around. They always loved their fans. Dion was the real jerk imo. He always says how he recruited the Belmonts meanwhile they paired up with him.
@@Frnk_3 interesting. When it comes to “The Day the Music Died” Dion’s account of Buddy & friends’ last day also does not match up at all with the other witnesses... a trend?
I remember discovering all this music arround 2010 as a teenager, my interest with 50's cars brought me into that and things in life at the time made me feel identified with some of those songs lyrics... I've been crazy about all that since then, it really is kind of sad how forgotten all this music is nowadays, those really were high quality voices.
Spread the word!
These were some great times. Made in America!! If I could go back I would leave immediately.
Greatest music ever
i'm french from Paris and i love Doowop ! Specially the New-York sound. Dion and the Belmonts with "I wonder why" is an uptempo master piece !
Indeed it's my favorite song.
Machine-gun-like-backup-nonsense syllables - but harmless!
These videos are great. Idk why you're being slept on
Nothing like the R&B of the 50s-60s. The Orioles, Ravens, Valentines, Moonglows, Vocaleers, Flamingos, list goes on. ❤️🔥
Still dance to them now
Thank you for calling it Rhythm & Blues. Nobody ever called vocal group harmony RnB Doo Wop before the early 70's
This is a genre I grew up with. I was born in the mid 90s and i turn 25 this year. My dad has a collection of vinyl from the 1930s all the way to the 60s and 70s and he would play his old records all the time while I was growing up. My mother always kept the car radio on the oldies station for me when I was younger. I even dressed as a greaser in highschool and kept with a rockabilly trend even now. Unfortunately I cant wear a pompadour anymore because my hair is too long but I wear a fedora instead. I remember seeing a 1957 chevrolet for the first time and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I wanted my parents to get a classic car but they always turned down the opportunity. My dad and my grandpa both worked for the chrysler plant here in saint louis which had some of the most famous cars produced including the Plymouth Fury.
Don't be reluctant to tell yours peers about doo wop! They just might end up being as cool as you and others who have found this music.
WHO WANNA START A DOO WOP GROUP!!!??
Il start a rap doo wop group.
Nick Lee I've always thought that "Doo-Hop" would be a good name for such a musical hybrid! (...definitely better than "Hip-Wop"!)
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Dude your videos are top notch. Don't stop!
I was first introduced to doo wop by my elementary school music teacher Mr. Vals back in the 90s. He seemed to ooze with passion about these groups and would always delve into their backstories as he played these classics for our class. I will always love him for that. Thanks to him, doo wop will always be one of my top favorite genres of music.
Love it when younger people get exposed to this music - and enjoy it!
A Bronx Tale brought me here ! Following that I watched Goodfellas, I love this genre of music and have the 60s -set mob - flicks to than for it !
Brilliant video, but here's a note. The throwing underwear phenomena had been done before, not ever in the 20th century though. Franz Liszt and Paganini both experienced the Beatlemaniaesque experience. Again, amazing video.
oh really?
Frank Sinatra did as well. This was well before the rise of Doo-Wop.
Go getcha shinebox!
The Teenagers’ , Gee label LP is rich with great ; spirited selections , half are “fast” upbeat , complemented by “slow” songs. All performances are superbly rendered by trailblazer vocals accompanied by FABULOUS band.
Italian-Americans had the harmony style creatively
-Thankyou for putting this mini documentary together. Even though I like house, jazz, mid 60's Motown & easy listening, it's 50's-early 60's r&b/doowop/r&r that really gets me.
Dude, these are some great video essays you've got here. Can't wait until your next video pops up into my feed :)
The Nerdwriter of music history and popular music. Looking forward to more videos.
Really an OUTSTANDING documentary!!! Thank you for putting this together!
this is a great video. The production quality is sooo good.
Thank you so much for the brief history of Doo Wop style. Absolutely in love with it. I am an Indian and I just watched A Bronx Tale (1993). The movie featured some Doo Wop songs (for eg 'I only have eyes for you' by the Flamingos) and I loved it very much so i searched about it and landed up on your video. Thanks again!
Thank you so much Jeffery for making this video. It was very informative. 🙂
literally just had an education in doo-wop from you just now. thanks so much for that incredible video. The Drifters ,Under the Boardwalk is my favourite doo wop track. 👍
Nice and clean. One of the best presentations I've ever seen anywhere. 👍
wonderful videos, I can't wait to watch your future videos
I love how "oops i did it again" is a modern pop song (from almost 20 years ago).
@Dos Eggies 0:26
Great job on this and Motown also came into influence on this too
Agreed! also some of my favorite music as well. Great to jive and rock 'n' roll to. Two more faves are by The Silhouettes with the fast rockin' tempo "Get A Job" released late in 1957 and the romantic slow dance tune by The Rays "Silhouettes On The Shade" also 1957.
For whatever it's worth, you shoulda mentioned the Dominoes (1951) with lead Jackie Wilson, and the Crows "Gee" (1953) -- the very first true doo-wop record to cross over onto the white charts and become a major hit. PS. The Del Vikings song title is "Come Go With Me." No "and" in it.
Jackie Wilson came after Clyde McPhatter left in 1953. The original Dominoes were Clyde McPhatter their main lead singer (1st Tenor) Charlie White who had a couple leads such as “The Deacon Moves In” (2nd Tenor) Baritone William Joseph “Joe” Lamont who kept up the background harmonies, and Bass (Possibly also William) Bill Brown who led their biggest hit Sixty Minute Man
I thoroughly enjoyed this, thanks for posting
This is the dopest video on UA-cam don't @ me
Proud to be a new subscriber! Keep these coming please!
Nice video Jeffrey. Thank you for making this
Found this music in 5th grade and I completely changed my life with music, attitude, and I got more interested in history to the point I almost live by it in many ways
This video is one of the most sweetest things I've ever seen!
Great video! You definitely deserve more recognition
I discovered Doo wop music when I was 10 watching Stand by me. Sometimes I wish I grew up during this Era of music.
make more videos period ! you have a talent for this !
love your video essays man!
You started the video with one of my favorite songs by Rosie and The Originals. Thanks.
Great video and playlist!
I really enjoyed that. If you were to expand it to half an hour I'd watch that too.
I'm off to look over some more of your stuff.
I love your analysis on different music topics like Doo-Wop! I would love to see a electronic music video essay like "How House Music Changed Dance Music" or " How electronic music changed everything" !!
I love your narrative. Your voice is very 60's to me, like the narrator on WonderYears
Loving these videos!!!
you videos are amazing dude!! Keep it up
You are a good narrator and I like your editing style. You should tone down the volume of the music, when you're narrating, though.
i disagree
Thank you for the story! I gradually moved my music preference to this era, and found doo-wop music played in background of lazy V8 rumble (or V6 purr) together with the view over long hood to be the best kind of relaxation🙂
What a wholesome and educational video essay, insta-subbed =)
wow amazing video thanks for such a great video style.
Excellent and entertaining video on one of the best genres of music this earth has ever seen! You really did it justice.
The best!
I am in love with your videos, man. I enjoy the history of music genres a lot and you produce your research so well :) Could you possibly do something on funk/disco? Keep up your awesome work!
I did not hear you mention The Crests...they were sooo big...and interracial too.
The Crests are great.
The one and only Johnny Maestro!
I love someone who shares my love for this music. it is so remarkably beautiful to me and my friends just don't understand hahaha
Excellent video dude!
Man you should do more videos these videos are incredible and fresh
i fucking love doo-wop, dion and the belmonts, the chordettes. even jan and dean and the beach bous.
You're a little confused. The Chordettes were middle-aged woman. The music they sang was Pop not doowop. Jan and Dean and The Beach Boys sang surf music, not doowop.
i miss your videos like this stillwell
You make wonderful videos !
Your videos are very good! You leave a lot of room for the artists, and if you keep up, there's no doubt you'll blow up, considering the quality of other music channels, or informative video essays elsewhere on UA-cam.
As a side note, I'm wondering if you're acquainted with Bob Dylan's radio show, which introduced me to many artists you've played on this video, as well as many anecdotes, session quirks, or musicians of that era.
Much thanks for this. 😊😊
Love this video…I return to it every now n then
Fantastic! Thanks for posting, LOVE doo wop 😊 💖
I'm 24 but I love DooWop, and really almost anything 50s.
Maybe there are more of you than I thought! One can only hope that this great music survives those of us who grew up with it.
these videos mean the world to me
Great work!!
Very well done and well researched video. Cheers to the 50s.
I’d love to make a project that combines doo-wop with shoegaze and dream pop. I think the two styles would go great together!
Very well done.
Excellent video
I have many doo wop songs it like but my favorites are Baby Talk, Jan & Dean, Pretty Little Angel Eyes by Curtis Lee, You Cheated by the Shields, I Really Love You by the Stereos, I Can't Stay Mad At You by Skeeter Davis..
Awesome!! Thank you!
Great video, well done! (This from a doowop 45 collector)
beautiful one of my favorite yt videos
I AM PHENING FOR DOO WOP AGAIN THANK YOU MY MAN
Doo Wop artists are NOT BANDS, they are GROUPS!
Those are synonyms
No they aren't in this case
Bands play instruments
Doo wop groups were almost always strictly singers
@Channel Name one
@Channel They were not a doo wop group
When I was an "Oldies" DJ, someone ask me who my favorite "band" was, and I said they aren't "bands" and he said "well, what would you call them?" - and I said "groups" - so Bruce G, I totally agree with your comment!
funnily enough my first introduction was Sh-boom by the Coasters and the whole genre in general was through the 2005 Pixar movie Cars and ive been in love ever since ive heard that melody
In the early 1950's, about 10 years old, I had trouble sleeping one Saturday night, and I turned on my AM radio about midnight. I tuned in to a station out of Newark, NJ. I think the show was called the Night Train. Early rhythm and blues. I loved it. Then, in the mid 1950's, Allan Fried came to NYC and started playing rock and roll. I found myself singing at night with friends under street lights or in school bathrooms (for the echo). We heard many of the early do-wop groups on the radio. Dick Clark on American Bandstand gave a lot of performers (mainly from Philly) a lot of national exposure. A great time to be introduced to music.
The Night Train show was hosted by a white DJ named Alan Fredericks, and it aired from Long Island, not Newark.
Im so glad my mom raised me listening to this
Fantastic. Would be great to do a documentary on the sweetest forgotten greasy sound called the TEEN SOUND.
What a great ode to a pivotal genre
Glad I was there for some of the earliest of this era. It's all still around if you missed it.
Great job might want to consider reading: Acappella Living in the Shadows 1963-1973. It covers this genre.
aaah man...doowop saved my life when I was 18 and was homeless for a few months...and doowop will see me to my death. thanks for this brief but well done clip.
Now you're 21 and I bet the discoveries are still coming your way!
@@terryhollis6055 I am 57. Doowop kept me going through hard times when I was 18. Your comment confuses me.
@@docdoowop Yeah, I understand why I confused you. I misread your initial comment, thinking that you were 18 when you wrote it. As for the discoveries - I figured that over the next three years (age 18 - 21) that you would have found many more doo wop songs that you liked. I apologize.
Still, since you were only born about the time of the British Invasion (of music), it is great to hear from someone that loves this music. Check out a couple of my favorite doo wops that are rare: Al Chaney - "That's Why I Want You" and Buddy Randell & The Knickerbockers - "All I Need Is You."
@@terryhollis6055 hey, i misread all the time...
and I am still discovering more doowop songs...i surely have not heard them all...
@@docdoowop You’re not from Schenectady NY by any chance...
EXCELLENT video. I’m 16 out of Detroit and I love this kind of music. I have a huge collection of doo wop 45s. Detroit has an amazing scene for doo wop
RMK i’ve got thousands of 35’s
Now you're 19 and hopefully spreading the word!
Way to go Jeffrey
Excellent message...1❤
I love this guy he needs more subscribers
Well done. This is excellent!
THE BEST!!! LOVE THIS GENRE
It curls my toes inside my house when I listen to Doo wops like those!!
ive got to say the oj's killed it.
Mid-60's where I went to High School, the acoustics were best in the boy's bathrooms. Floors and walls were ceramic tile and the sound was good. The Black guys would sing a capella Doo Wop in the first floor can, and the Italian guys would sing a capella Doo Wop up in the second floor bathroom. Those were the days.
The music was slow and sad, then 5 seconds later shows a fast upbeat song.
The Crows were the first ones to break though with a Doowop/RnR smash hit in 53-54. Not the first doowop group by no means earlier groups like The Ravens,Orioles,Swallows,Delta Rhythm Boys and Ink Spots charted classic songs but 'The Crows were Rock n' Rolls first chart toppers 👍🏼
Gee!
I got a cassette of The Teenagers album shown when you mention them. I've looked it up and can't find it online
your ending doesn't work anymore without the annotations, you might want to fix it cause i wanted to listen tot he playlist.
Great video on a subject people don't talk about a lot!
Start talking!
Doo-Wop is the music I grew up with -------& I am so grateful for that Blessing! ---------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o
EXCELLENT..
My friends make fun of me for liking music like this.
Wtf do they listen to then? It’s like not listening to modern music like EVERYONE else is a sin nowadays. Don’t mind them. I had my fair share of goons in middle school and during my early years in high school. I listen to music from 1963-1997 but have recently got into some modern artists who pay homage to music of this era. I never really cared for music before the 60s but their were some greats of that time that I appreciate: Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, and Frankie Lymon (of The Teenagers).
Thank you for this insight of how doo wop came to be