How To Use Doo-wop In A Sentence
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From barbershop quartets to gospel close-harmony groups to doo-wop to the kooky a cappella experiments, vocals-only pop music has a long history.
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He had this a capella, '60s thing about him, and he obviously connected with my voice because he heard some of that doo-wop still in my voice.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
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The songs do have some vocal basslines, nonsense syllables, and a cappella passages, but the harmonies rarely evoke '50s or early '60s doo-wop.
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It’s the story of a man-eating plant that eventually takes over the world, told in jaunty 1960s-style doo-wop, written by a little-known team called Ashman and Mencken who would eventually fade into obscurity after producing little-known Disney musicals like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
It's Official
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His music ranges from boogie blues and doo-wop to jazz fusion.
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It's not as ambient but it still crosses many similar paths, from film score to a simple song with a whole bunch of twists in the middle, ranging from free jazz to good old doo-wop.
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Their jazz and doo-wop strains were definitely blurred in the translation of their recorded sound to the stage, and their robotic elements almost completely absent, which rubbed some fans the wrong way.
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It's sort of the same thing, except that it's slightly more difficult to claim 50 per cent of the royalties from an ill-advised mid-life crisis bunk-up with a teenager than from a catchy middle of the road doo-wop pastiche.
Christie Brinkley Divorces Billionth Husband
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Yet the music they played, fuzzed garage punk that lifted liberally from such diverse strands as doo-wop, vaudeville, blues and sugary teen pop, absolutely refused to take any prisoners.
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The whole album was explained as being both a tribute and a satire of doo-wop, the culmination of his live-hate relationship with it.
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He had worked his way through the music business from doo-wop to folk, and saw the changing tides.
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The former is the group's raison d' etre - its wordless doo-wop chorus gently fluttering underneath the plaintive expression of individual empowerment that had been Sly's credo up to that point.
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Jump blues, country, gospel, western swing and pop - forget stereotypes, primal rock was more than just doo-wop and rockabilly.
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More theatrical tricks and styles - the yodel, the spoken interlude, the intricate harmonies of doo-wop - fell away as the decade progressed.
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Elegance on the Harbor at National Harbor is a Columbus Day tribute to two local doo-wop acts.
Going Out Guide: Nightlife agenda
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The song is a snappy blend of doo-wop, ska and rhythm and blues, with an uptempo dance-beat.
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A style combining smooth vocal harmonies, romantic lyrics, and a stationary stage presence, doo-wop was invented in the 1940s by black youth on street corners, but it shot to the top of the pop charts in the late 1950s when Italian Americans adopted it as their own—just as most African American performers moved toward “soul music.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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It was a very interesting time because I was, at that time, in a doo-wop band.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
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Real people, not models, danced dopey and devil-may-care in real, dirty streets and futzed over relationships, all intercut with name and no-name musicians singing original tunes-blues, doo-wop, rock, country.
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Other highlights include the psychotramatic lullaby of ‘The Talk of Creatures’, the literally glass-shattering gutbucket blues of ‘The Coming of the Crow’, and the Martian Beatles doo-wop of ‘The Simple Song’.
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Pop has always done this kind of thing - check back to the first half of the 60s when doo-wop, Motown and girl-groups turned the charts into a tub of sudsy glory.
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The band combines doo-wop with slacker rock for a truly unique recording.
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Like a streetcorner serenade, it's got all the oooh's, aaah's, handclaps and snaps of classic doo-wop, and yet it somehow remains brilliantly, unwaveringly faithful to the original.
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From 1958, when Dion DiMucci and the Belmonts placed several songs on the pop charts, until the “British Invasion” of 1964, Italian American doo-wop groups dominated American popular music.
A Renegade History of the United States
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These audio jump cuts and sudden changes in ambience were also reflected in the music, as doo-wop, pop songs, political commentary, fuzz guitar rock and cocktail jazz all piled up on each other.
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And his Tex-Mex barn-burners "Demasiado Corazon" and "Spanish Stroll" go so far as to incorporate doo-wop and Dylanesque folk touches.
Brilliant, Shook-Up Guy
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And his Tex-Mex barn-burners "Demasiado Corazon" and "Spanish Stroll" go so far as to incorporate doo-wop and Dylanesque folk touches.
Brilliant, Shook-Up Guy
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It's an amazing gentleman's type of music from the 1960s: a mix of traditional Cuban styles with doo-wop, bossa nova and rock.
Luciano Q&A
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Yet the music they played, fuzzed garage punk that lifted liberally from such diverse strands as doo-wop, vaudeville, blues and sugary teen pop, absolutely refused to take any prisoners.
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In Moles' homely upstairs cafe area there's a complementary side order of 1950s and 60s dancehall classics with a beady eye on the shimmy and shake favourites of Motown and doo-wop.
Clubs picks of the week
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He indulges in doo-wop, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie and Euro-classical paradigms.
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Rockabilly and doo-wop provide the sturdy structures, with a nod to the skiffle of the Quarrymen as he sings "Long, long lost John" over the fade of "I'm Losing You", in a deliberate echo of Lonnie Donegan's version of a song borrowed from Woody Guthrie.
The legacy of John Lennon
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'Self Preserved …' 's loose, jam-based riff colossi stand in stark relief to everyone else's doo-wop apery or sterile poptronica.
NME Features
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Taking on rock, jazz, blues, avant-garde, classical, doo-wop and all the other styles he incorporated in his compositions, they take it all in their stride and play just how he would have liked it.
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Jump music, gospel, R & B, doo-wop, bebop, uptown soul, and the US response to the British invasion are all heavily featured.
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This is the high peak of their doo-wop, with tricky little rhythms on the falsetto lead line and some extremely beautiful lyrics that seem to go beyond high school puppy love into something more universal.
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Dance, jazz, be-bop, 50s doo-wop, and standard jangle-pop all get thrown into the mix at varying points, while remaining inimitably in the thrall of their particular brand of noise.
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The overdubs on Young Liars and Desperate Youth create the illusion of four or five voices where there are usually one or two, hence the doo-wop and even barbershop comparisons.
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During the rise of doo-wop and Frank Rizzo, Malcolm X mocked the newly white Italians.
A Renegade History of the United States
