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The Complete Story Of Doo Wop, Vol.07 1955 (BCD 17285)



For the seventh volume of their doo wop history Street Corner Symphonies, Bear Family recaps the year 1955, which is when the sound really started to take off. Much of this is due to the groups getting wilder, looser, funnier, embracing sharply swinging rhythms and nonsense words, turning into a code of its own. Surely, there was still a lot of soft, dreamy harmonizing -- doo wop never would lose that -- but many of the breakneck classics of the genre came out this year: Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," the Cadillacs' "Speedoo," the El Dorados' "At My Front Door," the Robins' "Smokey Joe's Café." Among these are plenty of groups well renowned by genre aficionados -- the Diablos, the Wrens, the Spiders, the Jacks -- and gorgeous slow-dance standards like the Platters' "Only You," all of which highlight just how splendid this year was.




1 Why Do Fools Fall in Love 
George Goldner / Frankie Lymon  Frankie Lymon / The Teenagers   2:19 
 2 Most of All 
Alan Freed / Harvey Fuqua  The Moonglows   3:04 
 3 Speedoo 
Esther Navarro  The Cadillacs / Jesse Powell Orchestra   2:20 
 4 Close Your Eyes 
Chuck Willis  The Five Keys   2:18 
 5 At My Front Door 
Ewart Abner  The El Dorados   2:36 
 6 Adorable 
Buck Ram  The Colts   2:49 
 7 What'cha Gonna Do 
Ahmet Ertegun  Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters   2:46 
 8 Story Untold 
Leroy Griffin  The Nutmegs   2:17 
 9 Only You (And You Alone) 
Buck Ram  The Platters   2:39 
 10 Don't Change Your Pretty Ways 
Hank Ballard / Henry Booth / Cal Green / Lawson Smith / Ardra Woods  The Midnighters   2:31 
 11 Lonely Nights 
Zell Sanders  The Hearts / Al Sears Orchestra   2:38 
 12 When You Dance 
Andrew Jones  The Turbans   2:56 
 13 Got the Water Boiling 
Aaron Cornelius / Albert Russell  The Regals   2:37 
 14 The Way You Dog Me Around 
Nolan Strong  The Diablos / Nolan Strong   3:04 
 15 Chop Chop Boom 
Dallas Taylor  The Danderliers   2:14 
 16 Soldier Boy 
Theodore Williams Jr.  The Four Fellows / The Abie Baker Orchestra   2:59 
 17 Come Back My Love 
Bobby Mansfield  The Wrens   2:22 
 18 Why Don't You Write Me? 
Laura Hollins  The Jacks   2:49 
 19 Witchcraft 
Dave Bartholomew / Pearl King  The Spiders   2:35 
 20 Life Is But a Dream 
Raoul J. Cita  The Harptones   2:42 
 21 Smokey Joe's Café 
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller  The Robins   2:42 
 22 Smoke from Your Cigarette 
Harold Johnson  Lillian Leach / The Mellows   2:25 
 23 You Tickle Me Baby 
Albert Green / Noah Howell, Jr.  The Royal Jokers   2:43 
 24 Heaven and Paradise 
Don Julian  Don Julian & the Meadowlarks   2:51 
 25 You Baby You 
Berman Patterson / Gaetano Vastola  The Cleftones / Jimmy Wright & His Orchestra   2:42 
 26 Burn That Candle 
Winfield Scott  The Cues   2:31 
 27 It Wasn't a Lie 
Lloyd Davis  The Fi-Tones Quintette   2:57 
 28 Rollin' Stone 
Robert Riley  The Marigolds   2:53 
 29 Newly Wed 
Buford Wright  The Orchids   2:59 
 30 Zindy Lou 
Johnny Moore  The Chimes   3:08 
 31 Lily Maebelle 
Richard Barrett / Raymond Briggs / Thomas Vastola  The Valentines   2:16 
 32 The Door Is Still Open 
Chuck Willis  The Cardinals   2:57 
 33 Red Hots and Chili Mac 
Tassie von Rush / Al Smith  The Moroccos   2:32



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