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Street Corner Symphonies: The Complete Story Of Doo Wop, Vol.01 1939-1949 (BCD 17279)  de eerste van 10 CD's van Bear Family.





Bear Family's ambitious multi-volume Street Corner Symphonies: The Complete Story of Doo Wop chronicles a time long before rock & roll. It begins in 1939 with the Ink Spots' "If I Didn't Care," a song that contains the DNA of doo wop within Bill Kenny's lovely, keening tenor counterbalanced by the bass of Orville "Hoppy" Jones. This slight but significant shift within vocal harmony groups can be heard throughout the 30 songs on this first volume. Almost all of these sides, all cut between 1939 and 1949, are rooted in big-band pop, not gospel, so the rhythms sway instead of jump. This begins to change in the late '40s, particularly with the Orioles' "It's Too Soon to Know," which has the swing of R&B and gospel harmonies. A few other singles here also point to nascent doo wop but most of the music on Street Corner Symphonies, Vol. 1 should be viewed as prehistory for the main event -- it is instructive, at times fascinating and entertaining, and always well-annotated by Bill Dahl, but it retains a slight musty air, possibly because the bulk of this music is so dreamy it verges on the sleepy.





1 If I Didn't Care  
Jack Lawrence  The Ink Spots   3:05 
 2 I Miss You So 
Jimmy Henderson  The Cats & the Fiddle   2:48 
 3 Till Then 
Sol Marcus / Eddie Seiler / Guy Wood  The Mills Brothers   2:37 
 4 I Learned a Lesson, I'll Never Forget 
Joe Davis  Five Red Caps   3:01 
 5 Sentimental Reasons 
William "Pat" Best  Deek Watson & His Brown Dots   3:02 
 6 Play Jackpot 
Dusty Brooks / Jim Turner  Dusty Brooks & His Four Tones   2:35 
 7 Atom and Evil 
Louis Singer / Hy Zaret  Golden Gate Quartet   3:17 
 8 Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin' 
Duke Ellington / Lee Gaines / Billy Strayhorn  The Delta Rhythm Boys   2:55 
 9 I Know 
Theodore Brooks / John Jennings  The Jubalaires / Andy Kirk & His Orchestra   3:11 
 10 I Sold My Heart to the Junk Man 
Otis Rene / Leon René  Basin Street Boys / Eddie Beal Fourtet   3:00 
 11 I Cover the Waterfront 
Johnny Green / Edward Heyman  Cats 'N Jammer Three   3:03 
 12 My Baby 
Rudy Toombs  The Melody Masters   2:50 
 13 I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder, Pt. 2 
Daryl Hutchins  The Four Aces   3:08 
 14 P.S. I Love You 
Gordon Jenkins / Johnny Mercer  Four Vagabonds   3:00 
 15 Ol' Man River 
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern  The Ravens   2:59 
 16 Don't You Think I Oughta Know 
William Johnson / Mel Wettergren  Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes   2:59 
 17 I'm All Dressed Up with a Broken Heart  The Five Bars   2:39 
 18 Solitude 
Eddie DeLange / Duke Ellington / Irving Mills  The Scamps   2:45 
 19 After Awhile 
Leonard Caston  The Big Three Trio   3:03 
 20 It's Too Soon to Know 
Deborah Chessler  The Orioles   2:59 
 21 Recess in Heaven 
Johnnie Getz  Deep River Boys   2:55 
 22 Loch Lomond 
Traditional  The Rockets   2:25 
 23 Go Long 
Rudy Toombs  The Dixieaires   2:51 
 24 It Takes a Long Tall Brown Skinned Gal 
William Skidmore  Four Blues   2:52 
 25 You're Heartless 
Roy Brodsky / Sid Tepper  The Four Tunes   2:41 
 26 A Kiss and a Rose 
Thomas Connor / Patrick Toohey  The Charioteers   3:04 
 27 Wrapped Up in a Dream 
Irving Berman / William "Pat" Best  The Four Knights   2:46 
 28 River Stay Away from My Door 
Mort Dixon / Harry Woods  The Syncopators   2:33 
 29 If It's So Baby 
Terrell Leonard  The Robins   3:05 
 30 I've Been a Fool 
Gladyces DeJesus  The Shadows   2:47





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