Cruisin’ Doo-Wop (3CD SET)

Artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
Format: 3CD
Bar-code: 5060432023126
Cat No: NOT3CD312

£7.99

Doo-Wop has been hailed as the provider of street corner symphonies, though in the main, the genre was based around simple songs, but delivered in a manner that suggested they reflected the very hopes and lives of those who performed them. And, in many cases, that was nothing but the truth. One heart- felt acapella anthem, heard by the right contact, and any group of kids from the various ghettoes could make it to stardom and living of the highflying kind, albeit, very often for the briefest of moments. It may be true that doo-wop had largely been relegated to the nostalgia heap and that many of its protagonists have been forgotten. But as this compilation so ably proves, the music still remains fascinating and relevant.

Disc 1

1. Come Go With Me ~ The Del-Vikings
2. Why Do Fools Fall In Love ~ Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
3. Pretty Little Angel Eyes ~ Curtis Lee
4. There’s A Moon Out Tonight ~ The Capris
5. No, No, No ~ The Chanters
6. Blue Velvet ~ The Statues
7. Sixty Minute Man ~ Billy Ward & His Dominoes
8. Ruby Baby ~ The Drifters
9. Girlie That I Love ~ The Cellos
10. Oh What A Nite ~ The Dells
11. Trickle Trickle ~ The Videos
12. I Only Have Eyes For You ~ The Flamingos
13. Fine, Fine Frame ~ The Continentals
14. Get A Job ~ The Silhouettes
15. Silouettes ~ The Rays
16. Tonight, Tonight ~ The Mello-Kings
17. A Thousand Miles Away ~ The Heartbeats
18. Every Day Of The Week ~ The Students
19. Sincerely ~ The Moonglows
20. Since I Don’t Have You ~ The Skyliners

Disc 2

1. I Wonder Why ~ Dion & The Belmonts
2. Sixteen Candles ~ The Crests
3. Little Darlin’ ~ The Diamonds
4. Gee ~ The Crows
5. Book Of Love ~ The Monotones
6. Duke Of Earl ~ Gene Chandler
7. Come Back My Love ~ The Wrens
8. Tell Me Why ~ The Rob Roys
9. When You Dance ~ The Turbans
10. Crying In The Chapel ~ The Orioles
11. Can I Come Over Tonight ~ The Velours
12. Blue Moon ~ The Marcels
13. In The Still Of The Night ~ The Five Satins
14. Why Don’t You Write Me? ~ The Jacks
15. Da Doo ~ Dante & The Evergreens
16. One Mint Julep ~ The Clovers
17. Valerie ~ Jackie & The Starlites
18. Speedo ~ The Cadillacs
19. Lily Maebelle ~ The Valentines
20. My True Story ~ The Jive Five

Disc 3

1. Sh-Boom ~ The Crew-Cuts
2. Remember Then ~ The Earls
3. Earth Angel ~ The Penguins
4. Zoom Zoom Zoom ~ The Collegians
5. When We Get Married ~ The Dreamlovers
6. What’Cha Gonna Do ~ The Drifters
7. I’m Not A Juvenile Delinquent ~ Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
8. Can’t We Be Sweethearts ~ The Cleftones
9. Daddy Cool ~ The Diamonds
10. I Can’t Do Sixty No More ~ Billy Ward & His Dominoes
11. Rama Lama Ding Dong ~ The Edsels
12. Devil Or Angel ~ The Clovers
13. Teenagers Dream ~ The Kodoks
14. Story Untold ~ The Nutmegs
15. I’m So Young ~ The Students
16. Coney Island Baby ~ The Excellents
17. Once Upon A Time ~ Rochell & The Candles
18. Smokey Joe’s Cafe ~ The Robins
19. Sea Of Love ~ Phil Phillips With The Twilights
20. Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite ~ The Spaniels