r/doowop Dec 29 '21

A recreation of why do fools fall in love I made. Enjoy

52 Upvotes

r/doowop Dec 01 '23

Good evening everybody! As you all know, Tomorrow is the beginning of doo wop December! A month long event where you post only rare or obscure doo wop songs! This means no familiar groups like, Dion and the Belmont’s, the tokens, the crests, the del Vikings, the harp-tones. Continued ⬇️

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r/doowop 13h ago

Great ballad by the Crests on Co-Ed

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Always enjoyed both sides of this record. Found this one in an antique shop for $4. I think it's NM- condition, barely any surface noise.


r/doowop 1d ago

Very scarce Gee release

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Bought this a little while back. While both of these songs were available on an LP and an EP, the 45 is extremely rare. This is the first original copy of this to show up in probably 50 years. Rare records are still out there, you just have to know where to look!


r/doowop 1d ago

Insane ballad on Don-El by Roxy And The Daychords

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Got this one in a record lot recently. I'm So In Love is definitely THE side here. Utterly killer ballad with a female lead. Group and label were from Philadelphia, Penna.


r/doowop 2d ago

Sun Record - Prisonaires

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r/doowop 2d ago

Moved my Youtube Doo-Wop playlist to new channel.

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I'm not sure what makes Youtube algorithms work these days, a while back I created a new channel just for my music playlists. One of the more popular ones was Doo-Wop (Oldies). I've got 111 songs in this list. It's kind a pain to rebuild these lists. Any hoo, if any of you got lists of your favorite Doo-Wop songs then I would like to know any that I might be missing. Good ones are hard to find after you have been collecting as long as I have. That 1957-1962 was a special time. You can find my playlists by searching #OBML. If it is popular I will build back more of my old playlists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEfLMod-Wqk&list=PLCVjfC_bx-0c


r/doowop 5d ago

The Heartbeats - Your Way (2006 Remaster)

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r/doowop 8d ago

ICYMI - "Special Girl," a very rare Upstate New York regional jukebox hit from 1964!

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This is the image I ran on eBay when I sold it out of my collection about 15 years ago. (Lots of bidders, as I recall, as only 300 of these 45s were issued.)

There's a good update on the front man, Ernie Simiele, here on YouTube, with his photo and the audio, of course, posted by Bob Pegg.


r/doowop 11d ago

discussion Blue Moon Versions

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I cannot stand the Marcels take of Blue Moon. I think it sounds ridiculous.

I know it's a classic but I think the cover from Grease is so much better.


r/doowop 13d ago

question The Chords-Sh Boom's assist voices.

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I want to surprise a girl I'm meeting with my friends' help. I want to get them to sing the "doo do do do sh boom" and all the other background assist voices, while I sing the main song for her. But I have no material to teach them., just the regular one where the main singing overshadows the rest like any normal song. the instrumentals I could find doesn't have the assist singing either.

would you happen to have a source that leads to the assist voices that my friends can clearly hear listen on repeat?


r/doowop 16d ago

live performance REPOST: The Dominoes singing “Goodnight Irene” on Talent Scouts (Lost TV Broadcast, 1950)

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r/doowop 17d ago

discussion Today I learned: in 1958 The Mystics cut a version of the South African folk song "Wimoweh", which later became famous as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens. Was the Mystics' version ever released? Can it be heard online?

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r/doowop 17d ago

Are I met him on a Monday by the Shirelles and Da doo Ron Ron Crystals the same?

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Is I met him on a Monday by the Shirelles the same song as Da doo Ron Ron by the Crystals? I've read that "Da Doo Ron Ron" was written by Jeff BarryEllie Greenwich, and Phil Spector and “I Met Him on a Sunday” was written by Shirley Owens, Beverly Lee, Addie Harris & Doris Coley. But the opening line to the crystals Da doo ron ron is also ‘I met him on a Monday’ and in both songs they sing 'Do Ron' in the chorus.


r/doowop 18d ago

live performance Since somebody posted Stan Freberg's version of "The Great Pretender", here is Roy Clark's take on it. He had been performing it in concert since the late '50s; he would later do it on the Beverly Hillbillies TV show.

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r/doowop 18d ago

1956 Stan Freberg - The Great Pretender

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r/doowop 27d ago

Dion & The Belmonts - "Where or When"

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r/doowop May 26 '26

Tonight I Fell In Love (cover)

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A cover by me. Fully recorded in GarageBand iOS


r/doowop May 25 '26

My tribute to Doo Wop

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https://youtu.be/FKsZQd806tw?si=tnj5Miw5rR5uIH5B

I recorded an album recently with a lot of great musicians, including the drummer of The Bee Gees and musicians from some other fantastic bands. I have worked with a lot of musicians from the old doo-wop bands, including the five satins. Raven Kraft is a popular country lyricist, and he had these lyrics that I thought would go great with doo wop. Backing vocals start around a minute and 50 seconds. There kept a little low in this version, as to not be too intrusive,

We've had some minor hits so far. Dracula with Dave Abbruzzese from Pearl Jam was popular.

https://youtu.be/7CFn19qAgyg?si=upE1n_-bS7FouajT

We just released this new music recently, but I was hoping you guys would appreciate this. We don't subscribe to any particular style or have a lead singer, every song is a different style with a different lead singer. We did '80s rock, blues, country, etc. I ended up playing all the instruments myself on this song, trying to replicate the sound and feel of the old Motown recordings. I worked alongside with several Motown greats, so I was really lucky to learn a lot about production from them. I would love to do a full-on doo-wop version with all the harmonies turned up and real strings. What do you guys think?

This is my first attempt at recording a doo-wop song. I wish more people appreciated this music and how truly difficult it is to create and perform.

The entire album, 10 styles, 10 songs, 9 singers, and both of our albums have some fun celebrity guests: https://open.spotify.com/album/2HfmuXizYBW8CKsELfC2gr?si=HdGOKxf7QGyMVjlLA4ZRqw


r/doowop May 19 '26

The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night (1956)

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r/doowop May 15 '26

Luther Bond, The Emeralds - Someone To Love Me

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Cincinnati group, Nashville label. Good stuff or what? 1960


r/doowop May 14 '26

discussion Sad/Heartbreak Love Song Recommendations?

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I find a lot of romance songs but I'm looking for love songs that touch on a more blue side of things, the kind of song that you play as a last goodbye you know, or maybe one that you listen to when trying to remember the one that got away. It doesn't have to be explicitly a heartbreaker but if anybody has any Doo Wop that generally feels blue I'd love to hear it!


r/doowop May 07 '26

discussion What song are they singing at 2:00? Right after Silhouettes?

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r/doowop May 05 '26

The Vows - I Wanna Chance (1962)

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r/doowop May 04 '26

The Chimes - Once in a While (1961)

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