Product Details
- Artist: Various Artists
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0081227583521
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- Label: Rhino / Wea
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- Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Rhino / Wea
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- Release Date: 1999-07-20
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- Studio: Rhino / Wea
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- Title: Street Corner Serenade: The Greatest Doo Wop of the '50s and '60s
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- UPC: 081227583521
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Better Than Expected
We needed to add some 50s/60s to our music collection and this turned out to be just what we wanted. Every song is one I would have selected myself.
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outstanding
if you love oldies you have to have this one cd it has all the right ones
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