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The Complete Story Of Doo Wop, Vol.08 1956 (BCD 17286)


Often, 1956 is seen as rock & roll's ground zero -- it is the year Elvis Presley turned into a superstar, after all -- and it is also a cracking year for doo wop, as evidenced by the eighth volume of Bear Family's doo wop history Street Corner Symphonies. Many of the genre's all-time classics came out this year: the Five Satins' gossamer "In the Still of the Nite," the Cadets' loopy "Stranded in the Jungle," the Drifters' hard-grooving "Ruby Baby," Frankie Lymon's joyous "I Want You to Be My Girl," the Coasters' riotous "Down in Mexico," the Clovers' sweet "Devil or Angel," the sheer lunacy of the Chips' "Rubber Biscuit." Elsewhere, the style can be heard maturing and moving on out, particularly on James Brown's doo wop-informed "Please Please Please" and Andre Williams' greasy "Bacon Fat," and there are still quite a few pretty, dreamy ballads so commonly associated with the genre, but this volume alone provides a useful debunking to the myth that all doo wop sounds the same.



1 In the Still of the Nite 
Fred Parris  The Five Satins   3:01 
 2 Stranded in the Jungle  
Ernestine Smith  The Cadets   3:15 
 3 Oh What a Nite 
Johnny Funches / Marvin Junior  The Dells   2:53 
 4 I Want You to Be My Girl 
Richard Barrett / George Goldner  Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers   2:56 
 5 I'll Be Home 
Ferdinand Washington  The Flamingos   2:55 
 6 Ruby Baby  
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller  The Drifters   2:24 
 7 My Prayer  
Georges Boulanger / Jimmy Kennedy  The Platters   2:47 
 8 Come Go with Me 
Clarence E. Quick  The Del Vikings   2:39 
 9 A Thousand Miles Away  
James Sheppard  The Heartbeats   2:25 
 10 Up On the Mountain 
Ewart Abner / Nathaniel Montague  The Magnificents   2:49 
 11 The Way You Look Tonight 
Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern  The Jaguars   2:22 
 12 Church Bells May Ring 
Morton Craft / Ralph Martin / Anthony Middleton  The Willows   2:25 
 13 The Closer You Are 
Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson  The Channels   3:04 
 14 I Promise 
Jimmy Castor  Jimmy Castor & The Juniors   2:38 
 15 In Paradise 
Willis Carroll / Carmen Taylor  The Cookies   2:33 
 16 Zoom 
Esther Navarro  The Cadillacs / Jesse Powell Orchestra   2:24 
 17 A Casual Look 
Edward Wells  Six Teens   2:24 
 18 Little Girl of Mine 
Herbert Cox / George Goldner  The Cleftones / Jimmy Wright & His Orchestra   3:09 
 19 Bad Boy 
Lil Armstrong  The Jive Bombers / Clarence Palmer   2:52 
 20 Down in Mexico  
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller  The Coasters   3:14 
 21 Castle In the Sky 
William Dailey / Ernest Harriston  The Bop Chords / Ernest Harriston   2:20 
 22 You Gave Me Peace of Mind 
James Bracken  Al Smith Orchestra / The Spaniels   2:45 
 23 Ka-Ding-Dong 
Jack McDermott  The G-Clefs   1:59 
 24 Devil or Angel  
Blanche Carter  The Clovers   2:22 
 25 I'm So Happy (Tra-La-La-La-La-La) 
Morgan Robinson  Louie Lymon & the Teenchords   2:42 
 26 Bacon Fat 
Devora Brown / Andre Williams  Andre Williams & His New Group   3:02 
 27 Rubber Biscuit 
Nathaniel Epps / Paul Fulton / Shedrick Lincoln / Sam Strain  The Chips   2:07 
 28 See Saw 
Roquel Davis / Harry Pratt / Charles Sutton  The Moonglows   2:26 
 29 Lover 
George Goldner / Jimmy "Handy Man" Jones  Jimmy Wright & His Orchestra / Jimmy Jones & The Pretenders   2:35 
 30 Let's You and I Go Steady 
Howard Guyton / Max Wood  Sammy Lowe Orchestra / The Pearls   2:26 
 31 The Woo Woo Train 
Richard Barrett / George Goldner  Jimmy Wright & His Orchestra / The Valentines   2:54 
 32 Please, Please, Please 
James Brown / Johnny Terry  James Brown / The Famous Flames   2:43



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