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The Complete Story Of Doo Wop, Vol.02 1950 (BCD 17280)




The second volume of Bear Family's exhaustive, multi-volume doo wop series Street Corner Symphonies reaches 1950, which gets us closer to the glory days of doo wop, but we're still basically in the style's prehistory. Here, the sounds of popular black vocal harmony groups were still aligned with big-band crooning, so they were sweet and dreamy, but the emerging newer groups added some real R&B swing to their rhythms. These were the Ravens, the Clovers, the Orioles, the Dominoes -- the groups that definitely stand out among the 30 cuts on this generous history lesson. And it's the Dominoes, fronted by the glorious Clyde McPhatter, who cut through the pretty, hazy harmonies, his transcendent tenor giving the Dominoes a sexy, earthy energy that helped shift vocal harmony groups into the doo wop era. The other groups had the rhythms, but the Dominoes had that extra sexual jolt via McPhatter, something that's apparent from the music that surrounds it here on Street Corner Symphonies, Vol. 2. This is still a steady march toward doo wop, so it may not truly captivate listeners looking for jumping and rocking rhythms, but it's a valuable, detailed, necessary piece of popular music history.




Count Every Star 
Bruno Coquatrix / Sammy Gallop  The Ravens   2:54 
 2 Turkey Hop, Pt. 1 
Ralph Bass / Johnny Otis  Johnny Otis Orchestra / The Robins   2:42 
 3 I'd Rather Be Wrong Than Blue 
Howard Biggs / Joe Thomas  The Beavers   3:04 
 4 Do Something for Me 
Rose Marks / William Ward  The Dominoes   3:02 
 5 When You Come Back to Me 
David Highsmith  The Clovers   2:47 
 6 Chief, Turn the Hose on Me 
Harmon Bethea  The Cap-Tans   2:44 
 7 If You See the Tears in My Eyes 
Howard Biggs / Joe Thomas  The Delta Rhythm Boys   2:52 
 8 At Night 
Clifton Morris  The Orioles   3:09 
 9 Jumping Jack 
Jesse Stone  The Three Riffs   2:25 
 10 I'll Never Love Anyone Else  Steve Gibson & the Red Caps   3:00 
 11 I've Got No Time  The Whispers   3:01 
 12 I Will Wait 
Mildred Colclough  Four Buddies   2:21 
 13 Old Fashioned Love 
Jimmy Johnson / Cecil Mack  The Four Tunes   2:53 
 14 Cool Saturday Night  The Striders   3:04 
 15 Do You Love Me 
Austin Powell  The Cats & the Fiddle   3:27 
 16 I Don't Mind Being All Alone 
Clarence Gaskill / Jimmy McHugh / Irving Mills  The Colemans   2:46 
 17 Gone (My Baby's Gone) 
Ollie Jones  The Blenders   2:58 
 18 I'll Never, Never Let You Go  The Shadows   2:32 
 19 She's Gone 
Alexander Walton  Dozier Boys   3:06 
 20 As Long as I Live  Four Blues   2:38 
 21 I Don't Have to Ride No More 
Jimmy Ricks / Bill Sanford  The Ravens   2:59 
 22 Mr. Blues 
Ted McRae  The Masterkeys   2:20 
 23 Please Believe in Me 
Leo Herschman / Milton Orent  The Carols   2:27 
 24 Nevertheless 
Bert Kalmar / Harry Ruby  The Mills Brothers   2:47 
 25 My Heart Cries for You 
Percy Faith / Carl Sigman  The Larks   2:34 
 26 Young Girl 
The Flames  The Flames   2:36 
 27 Who Is There to Blame 
George Smith  The Four Aces   3:04 
 28 Lover Come Back to Me 
Oscar Hammerstein II / Sigmund Romberg  The King Odom Four   1:41 
 29 Rival Blues 
Ira Mumford-McRae / Johnny Smith / Chandler Tribble / Booker T. Weeks  The Rivals   2:22 
 30 A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes 
Mack David / Al Hoffman / Jerry Livingston  The Jubalaires   2:34





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