Track Listing

1. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - The Teenagers
2. Whispering Bells - The Dell Vikings
3. Speedoo - The Cadillacs/Jesse Powell Orch.
4. Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) - The Penguins
5. Little Star - The Elegants
6. I Wonder Why - Dion & The Belmonts
7. Book Of Love - The Monotones
8. Sincerely - The Moonglows
9. Come Go With Me - The Dell Vikings
10. Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters
11. Hushabye - The Mystics
12. There Goes My Baby - The Drifters
13. I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos
14. A Teenager In Love - Dion & The Belmonts
15. 16 Candles - The Crests
16. Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs
17. Oh What A Nite - The Dells
18. There's A Moon Out Tonight - The Capris
19. Blue Moon - The Marcels
20. Get A Job - The Silhouettes
21. Barbara Ann - The Regents
22. In The Still Of The Nite - The Five Satins

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18389 in Music
• Released on: 1999-07-20
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
If you've never seen kids harmonizing on a street corner you didn't grow up in any major city in the 1950s. The music was pure, the lyrics understandable, and the theme was love--unrequited, lost, and found. Where classic doo-wop is concerned, the leader usually boasted the best voice, but his or her supporting cast was of equal importance when it came to vocalizing the likes of "Blue Moon," "I Wonder Why," "Barbara-Ann" and "Get a Job," performed here by the Marcels, the Regents, and Dion & the Belmonts, respectively. Also included among the 20 artists featured on this hit-laden 22-song primer are Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers ("Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"), the Monotones ("Get a Job"), and the Flamingos ("I Only Have Eyes for You"). Decades after these songs filled the airwaves, they still elicit memories and a desire to sing along--in the background, of course. --Cal Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

Baby boomers choice
One of the the very best Doo Wop CD's I have ever heard. Go down memory lane and enjoy every moment.

Golden Era of Rock 'n' Roll: 1954-1963
Do Wop, in all its glory. Tired of crap (oh, rap). Try this one from people who know how to play their music.

Doo Wop do wop
For someone in their 50's or 60's, this will bring the memories flooding back. Only instead of hearing the songs coming out of the old Buick, the CD is perfectly clear and right on pitch.

For the younger generation, THIS is how music was and still should be, at least as an alternative to what we have available to listen to today. Guess Amazon will need to sell me even more old Doo Wop CD's, I'm wearin' a hole in this one! LOL.