The Only Doo-Wop Poll You'll Ever Need

I went with "I Only Have Eyes For You", but what a collection. You could happily get lost in here.

Lots of good choices.

Went with "At My Front Door" cuz it swings like a mother.

my true story, dawg.

i want to do a doo wop DJ night in brooklyn, who's with me?

If I lived in Brooklyn, I'd be there!

Lots of excellent choices, but I had to go with You Belong To Me.

"The Great Pretender" often vies for position as my favorite song ever.

I would go to a doo wop night, night after night.

Obvious choice, I know, but "In the Still of the Nite" is still my favorite.

I would go to a doo wop night, night after night.

Beware the underground/bootleg doo-wop scene though, there is some really rough stuff going on there.

do tell.

I Only Have Eyes For You, but I'm voting for Come Go With Me

Tough to pick. I'll probably forget to vote.

Better Frankie Lymon is "I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent."

Another vote for "I Only Have Eyes For You." Pure ether, that one.

speedoo

the flamingos cakewalk this, despite the other great choices

Duke of Earl

"Sincerely" is def. one of the top five all-time. but as far as this poll goes, no Jive Five, little cred

Aargh, "Blue Moon" & "I Only Have Eyes For You" are perfect songs, but (as I wander through this world) NOTHING CAN STOP THE DUKE OF EARL.

no Jive Five, little

But "My True Story" is on here! Or did you mean that you gotta go with "My True Story"? fab song of course

My fave jive five cut is probably "When I Was Single" though, which is the flip to "My True Story." Also essential: "No Not Again."

Flamingos, but yeah, so much great stuff here. Honorable mention to the watch-your-girl warning of "At My Front Door": "If you got a little mama and you wanna keep her neat/Keep your little mama off my street."

The Flamingos is a standout, even among these!

"There's A Moon Out Tonight" by the Capris is a close second.

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Even better Lymon than "Juvenile Delinquent" is "I Want You to Be My Girl."

Dude would be only 66 this year.

I got til Tuesday to decide, is that right?

A second for Come Go With Me

Far from the only doo-wop set *I'll* ever need.

The Elegants' Twinkle Twinkle won't get my vote (it's kind of flat & lame, actually), but it's a record I grew up with & always flipped to listen to the B-side, Getting Dizzy, in which the singers approximate a doppler-like "dizzy" effect, going wooooah-WOOAH-wooooah like they're actually spinning as the records goes 'round.

I'm interested in that vocal-effects aspect of doo-wop, where singers go beyond singing & move into the potential of the human voice, like the stuff Clarence Palmer was doing with the Jive Bombers. Some of it seems to anticipate what people would do electronically in subsequent years.

My vote -- why fight it? -- is for the Flamingos.

Like I said on Tracer Hand's Asimov thread, I would love to hear the Flamingos, if not the Moonglows, sing a song about The Three Laws Of Robotics.

The Flamingos and Moonglows both get into the vocal-effects thing, too, where the voice is stretched, bent or clipped to sound like an instrument or machine or something not-human.

I remember reading in David Ritz's Divided Soul about Marvin Gaye's apprenticeship with the Moonglows, when Harvey Fuqua taught him the secret of "blow harmony", a vocal effect he continued to utilize throughout his career.

I heard The Dells on the radio the other day talking about how bad they were until they apprenticed under The Moonglows.

OK, I voted for "I Wonder Why" but it easily could have been one of a dozen others.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Duprees in a walk, I love that song in every rendition but the original is just stupendous.

meanwhile, good lord but I'm'a buy the hell out of that cd

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Wow. Good thing I voted for IWW. But basically another poll with not enough voters.

No "10 Commandments of Love"??

The Moonglows wuz robbed.

Not enough voters, but more than I feared. I was pleasantly surprised at the interest, actually. I would have liked to see "Denise" get a vote, and I still love "Earth Angel" from watching Back To The Future so many times.

btw this collection really is fantastic; I also have the Rhino Doo-Wop Box 2, but I put this on way more. Anyone with the first Rhino box? Is it worth getting in addition to the collection polled here? And if so, why? It's always seemed pricey to me.

I like "Denise" OK, but I once met a guy who specialized in a certain sort of deracinated doo-wop and "Denise" was the only recognizable song on his tape, so it sort of got dragged down with the rest of them.

I'm pretty out of my depth thinking about racial stuff and doo-wop, but I gather it's a pretty fascinating topic.

It might be, but let's not mention it too much or we'll get too many flies on the sherbert.

Too few voters is right - sorry I didn't do my part. (Not that The Flamingos needed my vote...)

Argh, I completely missed this!

Still, my choice won. ^_^

I would have voted for "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" but I haven't heard most of these.

Can’t figure out what is the most live doo-wop thread so I will post here.

Haven’t had a good station or show to listen to in ages but just started listening to Bob Porter’s Saturday Morning Function on WBGO which seems to fill the bill nicely

Hm, there are a few tunes on this poll I am unfamiliar with

The Moonglows wuz robbed.

This was my first thought! i either voted "sincerely" or "my true story"

Anyone with the first Rhino box? Is it worth getting in addition to the collection polled. . .?
two reasons i can think of to get it. a) it's like twice as long as what was polled and, b) it's overall an even stronger collection than box 2 imho

HI DERE