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Bear Family Records - BCD17289 - The Complete Story Of Doo Wop, Vol 11 1959


If the tenth volume of Bear Family's Street Corner Symphonies captured doo wop at perhaps its commercial peak, the moment when dreamy ballads and swinging novelties vied for the top of the charts, Street Corner Symphonies, Vol. 11: 1959 marks where the style started to evolve far away from the street corner harmonies that provided much of its beginning. Those creamy harmonies are still evident here, particularly in the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You," which is a strong contender for greatest doo wop single ever, but there are also interesting permutations of this style, whether it's Huey Smith & the Clowns bringing it down to New Orleans for "Dearest Darling," the Dells laying the groundwork for smooth soul on "Dry Your Eyes" or the Shirelles spinning it into girl group gold on "Dedicated All the Way Home." There are also a number of rousing numbers driven by rock & roll rhythms and layered with interwoven harmonies -- the Impalas' "Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)" being a prime example of this -- and there are other touches of rock & roll, such as Dion & the Belmonts' "A Teenager in Love" which brings to mind the sweet ballads of Ricky Nelson, and Little Anthony & the Imperials also are given a grand, grooving production on "Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko-Bop," a style that would grow stronger early in the '60s. Then there were the novelties, driven by the peerless Coasters -- here represented by one of their greatest, "Charlie Brown" -- who were lovingly mimicked by the Clovers on "Love Potion No. 9," but there are also such oddities as the Boss-Tones' "Mope-Itty Mope" and, separately, the down-and-dirty dance craze "(Baby) Hully Gully" by the Olympics. It's a great variety of sounds and, consequently, one of the most entertaining volumes in this excellent series.



1  I Only Have Eyes For You 
Al Dubin / Harry Warren  The Flamingos   3:20  
     2  Love Potion No. 9 
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller  The Clovers   1:52  
     3  This I Swear 
James Beaumont / Walter Lester / Joseph Rock / John Taylor / Joseph Verscharen / Janet Vogel  The Skyliners   2:40  
     4  The Angels Listened In 
Cathy Lynn / Billy Dawn Smith  The Crests   2:01  
     5  Island of Love 
William Ezell / William Sheppard  Sheppard / The Sheppards   2:22  
   6  You're So Fine 
Lance Finnie / Willie Schofield  The Falcons   2:25  
     7  Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) 
Aristides Giosasi / Arthur Zqirn  The Impalas   2:33  
     8  My Love Will Never Die 
Earl Lewis / Morgan Robinson  The Channels   2:22  
     9  Wiggle, Wiggle 
Robert Draper Jr.  Accents   2:02  
     10  Dedicated To the One I Love 
Ralph Bass / Lowman Pauling  The Shirelles   2:03  
     11  Senorita I Love You 
Curtis Mayfield  The Impressions   2:33  
     12  A Teenager In Love 
Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman  Dion & The Belmonts   2:38  
     13  Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop 
Bob Smith  Little Anthony & the Imperials   2:08  
     14  Hushabye 
Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman  The Mystics   2:31  
     15  Moonlight Serenade 
Glenn Miller / Mitchell Parish  The Rivieras   2:52  
     16  Who's That Knocking 
Claude Johnson / Fred Jones / Leroy Kirkland  Geniuses   2:15  
     17  Just To Be With You 
Marvin Kalfin  The Passions   2:22  
     18  Charlie Brown  
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller  The Coasters   2:21  
     19  Dearest Darling 
Huey Smith  Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns   2:29  
     20  Dry Your Eyes 
Verne Allison  The Dells   2:23  
     21  (Baby) Hully Gully 
Cliff Goldsmith / Fred Smith  The Olympics   2:06  
     22  Puppy Love Little 
Ronnie Mack  Jimmy & the Boys / Little Jimmy Rivers & the Tops   2:37  
     23  Rockin 'In the Jungle 
Charles Girona / William Martin  The Eternals   2:31  
     24  You Were Mine 
Paul Giacalone  Fireflies / The Fireflies   1:57  
     25  Good News 
Otis Blackwell  The Fiestas   2:26  
     26  Mope-Itty Mope 
The Boss-Tones / William Chatman  The Boss-Tones   2:03  
     27  Sea of Love 
Phillip Baptiste / George Khoury  Phil Phillips / Phil Phillips with the Twilights / The Twilights   2:24  
     28  Let It Please Be You 
Charles Hirston / Charles Power / Thomas White / James Whittier  The Desires   2:18  
     29  There Goes My Love 
William Forrest  Fantastics / The Fantastics   2:05  
     30  My Beloved (Without Strings) 
Robert Bateman / Berry Gordy, Jr. / Chico Leverette / William Sonny Sanders  The Satintones / The Satin Tones   2:24  
     31  Oh Rose Marie 
George Cernacek / Angelo La Grecca / Anthony Passalacqua / Nicholas Travato / Eddie Wheeler  The Fascinators   2:20  
     32  This Broken Heart 
William Franklin  The Sonics   3:01  
     33  There Goes My Baby  
Jerry Leiber / Ben Nelson / Lover Patterson / Mike Stoller / George Treadwell  The Drifters   2:10  
     34  Shout, Pts. 1 & 2 
O'Kelly Isley / Ronald Isley / Rudolph Isley  The Isley Brothers   4:33


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