STREET CORNER SYMPHONIES - VOL. 9-COMPLETE STORY OF DOO WOP
release,the ninth installment in this incredible series that focuses on the glory days of Doo Wop. Like Rap,Doo Wop music was an urban American art-form. It was sung on street-corners,in stairwells of tenement apartments,in high school toilets... and it was preserved for posterity in recording studios. Most of the performers were African American,and many of the songs were romantic - in sharp contrast to the bleak reality of urban African American life at the time. Suffice to say that these were