Just when it seems as if The GrooveBarbers' legacy is destined to be our uncanny ability to pitch nasal anithistamines to seasonal allergy sufferers, we bust a pioneering high brow move with "doowOpera": a glorious hybrid of doowop and opera. As of this writing, the concert YouTube clip of "O Mio Babbino Caro" (from Puccini's opera Gianni Schicci), featuring us four aging warriors and the lovely soprano diva Inna Dukach (a.k.a. my bride), has garnered 20,000 hits in its first couple of weeks (doowopera.com points to the video). Call me a crazy pollyanna, but I think this could be The GrooveBarbers' "D*ck In A Box": a viral career-maker that will make us the universal object of female desire, male admiration and modern acapella scorn. In the past two weeks I've fielded dozens of requests for the vocal arrangement from opera directors and chorus masters from around the world. This is especially baffling, as I was heretofore unaware that the "internet" had gone international.

The defining element of this live mashup performance we call "doowOpera" is that both The GrooveBarbers and Inna Dukach stayed true to their respective fields of expertise: Inna sang this beloved aria in her normal, opulent operatic way (as she does with New York City Opera at Lincoln Center), and The GrooveBarbers did our old school doowop thing (as we do in my kitchen and on TV commercials for Astelin Nasal Spray). Thus the two styles occur simultaneously, and neither was forced to yield to the other. If only the religions and ethnicities of the world could coexist this blissfully.

Please watch and enjoy, and spread the viral love by sending friends to www.doowOpera.com. And while you're there, please rate us five stars and comment glowingly.

Next week: The GrooveBarbers combine street-corner harmony with histrionic daytime talk television: "DooOprah".

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