The First Lady of Song
b. April 25, 1917 Listen to The Complete Ella Fitzgerald on Amazon Music… #ellafitzgerald #birthday #blues #jazz #doowop #swing #music #musicsky #musiciansky
Dickey DOO & The DON’T - ne Ne na Na Na Na Nu Nu (1958) USA Swan
The DRIFTERS Featuring Clyde McPHATTER Honey Love (1954) USA Atlantic
This is an outtake (https://youtu.be/EhqGB9GCPB0?si=nB1ES5PzvHXkEhjr ) of the Doo Wop classic “Don’t Mess Around with Love” (https://youtu.be/_3o7aQtM2c0?si=zmLZC5s3NLuXVT2d) by New York- based doo wop group The Blenders. I thought it was an interesting find
#RetroView #TheBlenders #DooWop
"Hushabye" is a song that was written by #DocPomus and #MortShuman in 1959 for the #Brooklyn #doowop quintet #theMystics. The group's recording of the song was a #Top20 hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94VWNiOcss0
"Book of Love" (also titled "(Who Wrote) The #BookOfLove") is a #rockAndRoll / #doowop song, originally by #TheMonotones. It was written by three members of the group, Warren Davis, George Malone and Charles Patrick. Lead singer Charles Patrick heard a #Pepsodent toothpaste commercial with the line "you'll wonder where the yellow went"/ "when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent", which inspired him to come up with, "I wonder, wonder, wonder who.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_rzScV3TM
"Earth Angel", occasionally referred to as "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)", is a song by American #doowop group #thePenguins. Produced by #DootsieWilliams, it was released as their debut single in October 1954 on #DootoneRecords. The Penguins had formed the year prior and recorded the song as a demo in a garage in #SouthCentralLosAngeles. The song's origins lie in multiple different sources, among them songs by #JesseBelvin, #PattiPage, and #theHollywoodFlames.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcGi4-n_Yw
"Only You (And You Alone)" (often shortened to "Only You") is a #dooWop song composed by #BuckRam, the manager of #thePlatters, the group that made the song famous in the US, the UK and Belgium. The Platters's lead vocals are by #TonyWilliams. Other well-known versions have been recorded by #theHilltoppers, #FranckPourcel and #RingoStarr. American #countryMusic versions were released by #TravisTritt, #RebaMcEntire, #BobbyHatfield and #theStatlerBrothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUJSc6unAg
"Earth Angel", occasionally referred to as "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)", is a song by American #doowop group #thePenguins. Produced by #DootsieWilliams, it was released as their debut single in October 1954 on #DootoneRecords. The Penguins had formed the year prior and recorded the song as a demo in a garage in #SouthCentralLosAngeles. The song's origins lie in multiple different sources, among them songs by #JesseBelvin, #PattiPage, and #theHollywoodFlames.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j6OAEOcNCE
"Stay" is a #doowop song written by #MauriceWilliams and first recorded in 1960 by Williams with his group the Zodiacs. Commercially successful versions were later also issued by #theHollies, #theFourSeasons and #JacksonBrowne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvhMSkO1Ips
"Denise" is a song written by Neil Levenson that was inspired by his childhood friend, Denise Lefrak. In 1963, it became a popular top ten hit on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart, when recorded by the #American #doowop group #RandyAndTheRainbows. A cover version by the American #newWave group #Blondie, re-titled "Denis", reached number 2 in the #UKSinglesChart in 1978. Dutch actress and singer #GeorginaVerbaan covered "Denis" in 2002.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99fy0QFVsWc
"Since I Don't Have You" is a song written and composed by Jackie Taylor, James Beaumont, Janet Vogel, Joseph Rock, Joe Verscharen, Lennie Martin, and Wally Lester. It was first a 1958 hit single for the #doowop group #theSkyliners on the #Billboard Hot 100. #CountryMusic singer #RonnieMilsap had a hit with the song in 1991. American #hardRock #band #GunsNRoses also had some success in 1994 with their version of the song which reached the top 10 on the #UKSinglesChart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZh6ZSRoYg
"Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" is a #doowop style #noveltySong from 1961 by the American songwriter #BarryMann, who wrote it with #GerryGoffin. It was originally released as a single on the #ABCParamount label (10237).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aumW5e28xic
"Remember Then" is a #popSong written by #TonyPowers and #BeverlyRoss, and first recorded in 1962 by #doowop vocal group #TheEarls. Original copies of The Earls' version, on the #OldTown #label, show only Powers as the writer, while some later versions give a writing or co-writing credit to #recordProducer Stan Vincent. #BMI lists all three as co-writers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1igHnZts4Gs
"Come Go with Me" is a song written by C. E. Quick (a.k.a. Clarence Quick), an original member (bass vocalist) of the American #doowop vocal group #theDelVikings. The song was originally recorded by The Del-Vikings (lead singer Norman Wright) in 1956 but not released until July 1957 on the Luniverse LP Come Go with the Del Vikings. The final version was released in the second week of January 1957 and was led by Gus Backus. When Joe Averbach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DKqvnXPkU0
"Book of Love" (also titled "(Who Wrote) The #BookOfLove") is a #rockAndRoll / #doowop song, originally by #TheMonotones. It was written by three members of the group, Warren Davis, George Malone and Charles Patrick. Lead singer Charles Patrick heard a #Pepsodent toothpaste commercial with the line "you'll wonder where the yellow went"/ "when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent", which inspired him to come up with, "I wonder, wonder, wonder who.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1LFGGGazc
I didn't need like Charlie Rich to get "loaded last night on a bottle of gin" & to be sittin' & thinkin' a lot to find those ones :
1 - XTC - 
from a bottle (on their incredible Black Sea album, 1980, 
) : https://youtu.be/Ahf7rRW-8Pg?feature=shared
2 - 070 Shake - Mirrors (2018) : https://youtu.be/ktJ3kA3IQ2M?feature=shared
"I got 7 reasons, I don't got 4, 5, 6!"
3 - The Checkers - House with no windows (1954) : https://youtu.be/yTq5oGSg0KY?feature=shared
4 - Benny Joy - Spin the bottle (1958) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t8gFBu5oHg
"Spin-spin, spinnin' the bottle
Spin the bottle honey and I hope it 
on you"
5 - Charlie Feathers - 
to the baby (1956) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWNZKZ7_Cu4
