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The Complete Story Of Doo Wop, Vol.05 1953 (BCD 17283)




The fifth volume of Bear Family's doo wop history Street Corner Symphonies covers 1953, which very well may be the year the doo wop revolution truly began. Rock & roll was still a few years away but the hottest sides here -- including "Money Honey," Clyde McPhatter's debut with the Drifters that opens up this 32-track volume, but also the "5" Royales' "Too Much Lovin' (Much Too Much)" and the Checkers' swinging "White Cliffs of Dover" -- are certainly part of that Zeitgeist, rocking and rolling with gusto, the rhythms hitting hard and guitar adding grit. This new wave of vocal groups begins to dominate Vol. 5 -- their influence can even be heard on quieter sides, like the Prisonaires' gospel "Just Walkin' in the Rain" -- but there's still a preponderance of softer, sweeter tunes here. Yet even among these cuts a heavier gospel and R&B influence can be heard -- witness the slow, easy shuffle on the concluding cut, the Spiders' "You're the One" -- all pointing toward the revolution that is just on the horizon.



1 Money Honey 
Jesse Stone  The Drifters / Clyde McPhatter   2:55 
 2 Crying in the Chapel 
Artie Glenn  The Orioles   3:03 
 3 Baby, It's You 
James Bracken / Gerald Gregory / James Hudson  The Spaniels   2:36 
 4 White Cliffs of Dover 
Nat Burton / Walter Kent  The Checkers   2:18 
 5 Baby Please 
Alan Freed / Harvey Fuqua  The Moonglows   2:55 
 6 Is It a Dream 
Joseph Duncan / Morgan Bobby Robinson  The Vocaleers   3:06 
 7 Gee  
William Davis / Viola Watkins  The Crows   2:12 
 8 Nadine 
Alan Freed  The Coronets   2:49 
 9 You're Mine 
Harold Johnson  The Crickets   2:55 
 10 Too Much Lovin' (Much Too Much) 
Lowman Pauling  The "5" Royales   2:59 
 11 A Sunday Kind of Love 
Barbara Belle / Anita Leonard / Louis Prima / Stanley Rhodes  The Harptones   2:59 
 12 Golden Teardrops 
John Carter / Edward "Bunky" Redding  The Flamingos   3:15 
 13 Good Lovin' 
Jesmet / Leroy Kirkland / Danny Taylor  The Clovers   2:58 
 14 (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I 
Bill Trader  The Robins   2:57 
 15 My Girl Awaits Me 
Frank Vance  The Castelles   3:04 
 16 Marie 
Irving Berlin  The Four Tunes   2:19 
 17 These Foolish Things Remind Me of You 
Harry Link / Holt Marvell / Jack Strachey  Billy Ward & the Dominoes   3:06 
 18 We Could Find Happiness 
Wilson Parker  The Wanderers   2:39 
 19 I Wanna Know 
Caleb Ginyard  The Du Droppers   2:18 
 20 Dear Ruth 
Jerry Halpern / Ed Krensel  The Buccaneers   3:13 
 21 Just Walkin' in the Rain 
Johnny Bragg / Robert Riley  The Prisonaires   2:44 
 22 Get It 
Hank Ballard / Alonzo Tucker  The Royals   2:12 
 23 Lovie Darling 
Ahmet Ertegun  The Cardinals   2:45 
 24 I Had a Love 
Obie Jessie  The Flairs   2:36 
 25 My Saddest Hour 
William Robinson  The Five Keys   3:14 
 26 Hey Now 
Dwight Davis / Alex Hodge  The Platters   2:09 
 27 I 
The Velvets  The Velvets   3:22 
 28 Baby, Come Back to Me 
Walter Spriggs  The Five Echoes   2:30 
 29 Nobody Lovin' Me 
Henry Glover  The Swallows   2:22 
 30 Big Leg Mama 
The Rockets  Vann Walls   2:37 
 31 I Can't Believe  The Hornets   2:37 
 32 You're the One 
Adolph Smith  The Spiders   1:55




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