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What music needs right now is a dose of doo-wop |
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Written by CASA NewsLink
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
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Sometimes life just feels too complicated. Sometimes contemporary bands just seem far too arch or ironic for their own good and you're left yearning for something simpler. Recently I've been finding aural salvation in the most sugary music ever known: doo-wop.
Doo-wop (also spelled doo-wop), enjoyed its heyday from 1953 through to the British Invasion circa 1963 and has been on the vintage jukeboxes of the world ever since. It began life almost solely as vocal-led, black people's music in major inner city strongholds such as New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Predictably, it was soon co-opted by white artists, labels and DJs, and soon broadened out into nonsensical classics such as the Marcels' Blue Moon - and hit small town America.
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