What are some of the best doo-wop albums of the 50s?

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― Michael D Muhfuck, Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

Were many of them even allowed to make albums?

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

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― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

And Rhino's second Doo Wop box is pretty swell too. The third, however, is lackluster and features "new" doo wop-style tracks from a host of weak artists. I know of few even reasonably good doo wop albums - it was a singles genre at a time when albums of nearly any sort were loaded with filler.

― Dee Xtrovert (dee dee), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

NATHANIEL MAYER!!!!!!!!!
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get the album called "Going Back to the Village of Love"

this guy is unstoppable. he's till cooking at retro fests, etc......

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― jack dee, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

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dude! and while we're on unstoppable motherfuckers, ya got andre williams too!!!!! disappeared in the 70s after a lengthy career of the bangin'-est shit ever for doo-wop soul, and raw funk. but he's back now too...

for doo-wop get the cd called "mr. rhythm"
it's a compilation of all his early singles. i think a doo-wop album is kind of an oxymoron...

― jack dee, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

jack dee, where is your love for Nolan Strong and the Diablos?

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Doo wop albums weren't unheard of, though (not counting "best ofs" and various artists sets). The Drifters had a few, as did Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Four Seasons, Little Anthony and the Imperials, and Dion and the Belmonts. Although many of these LPs were cut in the early 60's, when albums were more common than in the 50's.

Litte Anthony and the Imperials did a very good "concept album" (of sorts) of older "tin-pan-alley" standards, titled -Shades of the 40's- (of course) in 1961. It's been reissued on CD from Westside (the UK label) and it's definitely worth a buy.

― James, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

dude, i plumb forgot nolan. he's right up there actually. and forms the holy trinity of FORTUNE GREASEBALL TWO MINUTE THIRTY SECOND SYMPHONIES OF GLEE ECASTACY REMORSE AND REGRET. goddam i love nolan. and his diablos.

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is he still kickin?

― jack dee, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't think so. But, as you observed, you needed him to complete your triple. Jonathan Richman is a fan too.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

going so far down the rabbit hole of regional doo wop compilations the past couple of years. dudes who get ahold of master tapes that ought by rights to be in the hands of the r&rhof but aren't & do these loving faithful sonic treatments to make em crisp and then issue them on CD in runs of 1000 with two-color cover art because who wants to spring for a four-color job

― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 5 September 2016 14:58 (nine years ago)

do tell

― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 September 2016 15:07 (nine years ago)

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