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Bear Family Records - BCD17292 - The Complete Story Of Doo Wop, Vol 14 1962



Ever since the '50s gave way to the '60s it seemed that doo wop was fracturing and, certainly, by 1962, it wasn't quite as big a commercial force as it was five or six previously. That said, history is not tidy: Motown, uptown soul, girl groups, and Chicago soul may all have been taking hold in 1962, but doo wop hadn't disappeared, as this 14th volume of Bear Family's Street Corner Symphonies series illustrates. There are plenty of those aforementioned sounds, sounds that are loosely identified as doo wop due to their vocal group harmonies -- the Supremes have their first hit, the Miracles have a breakthrough with "You've Really Got a Hold on Me," the Marvelettes are here, the Exciters' exuberant "Tell Him" is pure early-'60s pop, as is the Orlons' "Don't Hang Up," while the Drifters' "Up on the Roof" -- and that's enough to keep this varied, entertaining, and interesting (and Beatles fanatics will also be happy to find the original versions of "Chains" (by the Cookies), "Devil in His Heart" (by the Donays), and the Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" on one disc). But what's striking is how many pure doo wop songs are still here -- there's the rollicking "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" by the Rivingtons, the Earls' nostalgic "Remember Then," the Belmonts' swinging street corner "Come on Little Angel," the Valentinos' groovy "Looking for a Love," and the creamy "Coney Island Baby" by the Excellents, a song so iconic Lou Reed later borrowed its title for a song of his own. This messiness makes this 14th volume of Street Corner Symphonies as great as the three that preceded it.


1  Remember Then 
Tony Powers / Beverly Ross / Stan Vincent  The Earls   2:07  
     2  What Time Is It 
Bob Feldman / Jerry Goldstein / Richard Gottehrer  The Jive Five / Eugene Pitt   2:47  
     3  Do You Love Me  
Berry Gordy, Jr.  The Contours   2:54  
     4  Soldier Boy  
Luther Dixon / Florence Green  The Shirelles   2:39  
     5  You've Really Got a Hold on Me 
William "Smokey" Robinson  The Miracles   3:12  
     6  A Wonderful Dream 
Ed Erenberg / Norman Margulies  The Majors   2:02  
     7  I Love You 
Willie Ewing / Ernest Newson  The Volumes   2:37  
     8  Forever  
Lamont Dozier / Freddie Gorman / Brian Holland  The Marvelettes   2:27  
     9  You Belong to Me 
Pee Wee King / Chilton Price / Redd Stewart  The Duprees   2:44  
     10  Sherry 
Bob Gaudio  The Four Seasons   2:32  
     11  Coney Island Baby 
Peter Alonzo / Vince Catalano  The Excellents   2:12  
     12  Devil in His Heart 
Richard Drapkin  The Donays   2:35  
     13  Come on Little Angel 
Thomas Bogdany / Ernie Maresca  The Belmonts   3:02  
     14  Village of Love 
Devora Brown / Nathaniel Mayer  Nathaniel Mayer & the Fabulous Twilights   2:01  
     15  Untie Me 
Joe South  The Tams   2:24  
     16  Tell Him  
Bert Russell  The Exciters   2:34  
     17  Little Young Lover 
Curtis Mayfield  The Impressions   2:15  
     18  Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow 
Al Frazier / John Harris / Turner Wilson Jr. / Carl White  The Rivingtons   2:22  
     19  I Sold My Heart to the Junkman 
Otis Rene / Leon René  The Blue Belles   2:27  
     20  Up on the Roof  
Gerry Goffin / Carole King  The Drifters   2:36  
     21  Paradise 
Berry Gordy, Jr.  The Temptations   2:51  
     22  Chains  
Gerry Goffin / Carole King  The Cookies   2:31  
     23  Oh What a Way to Be Loved 
Gerald Sims  The Daylighters   2:48  
     24  Do Not Hang Up 
Dave Appell / Kal Mann  The Orlons   2:18  
     25  Arabia 
Juanita Henson  The Delcos   2:31  
     26  Your Heart Belongs to Me 
William "Smokey" Robinson  The Supremes   2:36  
     27  Hully Gully Baby 
Dave Appell / Kal Mann  The Dovells   2:34  
     28  I Wish That We Were Married 
E. Lewis / Marian Weiss  Ronnie & the Hi-Lites   2:51  
     29  Mind Over Matter (I'm Gonna Make You Mine) 
Devora Brown  The Diablos / Nolan Strong   3:11  
     30  There's a Love 
William Bell / Louis Williams  The Del-Rios   2:18  
     31  The (Bossa Nova) Bird 
Roquel Davis / Shirley Hall  The Dells   2:45  
     32  I Found a Love  
Wilson Pickett / Willie Schofield / Robert West  The Falcons   2:58  
     33  Twist and Shout  
Phil Medley / Bert Russell  The Isley Brothers   2:33  
     34  Looking for a Love 
J.W. Alexander / Zelda Samuels  The Valentinos   2:28


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