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The song is an ode to a girl on her 16th birthday, and it’s one of the most recognizable tracks of the doo-wop era. The 1984 John Hughes movie Sixteen Candles was reportedly taken from the song ...
The Cadets were an American doo-wop group, formed in Los Angeles, California, United States. [1] The group began as a gospel group, the Santa Monica Soul Seekers, in the late 1940s. [ 2 ] The members were Lloyd McCraw, Willie Davis, Austin "Ted" Taylor , Aaron Collins , Glendon Kingsby, and Will "Dub" Jones . [ 2 ]
Such composers as Rodgers and Hart (in their 1934 song "Blue Moon"), and Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser (in their 1938 "Heart and Soul") used a I–vi–ii–V-loop chord progression in those hit songs; composers of doo-wop songs varied this slightly but significantly to the chord progression I–vi–IV–V, so influential that it is sometimes referred to as the '50s progression.
The ' 50s progression (also known as the "Heart and Soul" chords, the "Stand by Me" changes, [1] [2] the doo-wop progression [3]: 204 and the "ice cream changes" [4]) is a chord progression and turnaround used in Western popular music. The progression, represented in Roman numeral analysis, is I–vi–IV–V. For example, in C major: C–Am ...
I Need You (Paris Hilton song) I Really Love You; I Want You (Janet Jackson song) I Won't Say (I'm in Love) I Wonder Why; I'm on the Outside (Looking In) I'm So Young; In My Room; In the Still of the Night (The Five Satins song) It's Still Rock and Roll to Me; It's Too Late (Carole King song) It's Too Soon to Know
The Aquatones are an American doo-wop group that started in the 1950s. [1] The group's lead singer was 17-year-old Lynne Nixon, a soprano who had had formal operatic training. The Aqua-Tones had one Billboard Hot 100 hit, entitled "You", for the Fargo label. [1] Their subsequent releases all failed to reach the Hot 100.
23 Luly 2012: The Acappella Swingers publish "Swing to the moon" the new EP. Five inedit Doo-wop songs (written by Dario Greco) with a new, modern sound. For the first time, an acoustic guitar beautify and surround the four voices.
The artless, unaffected vocals of the Penguins, four black high schoolers from L.A., defined the street-corner elegance of doo-wop." [32] A 1997 listener poll by New York radio station WCBS placed "Earth Angel" just behind the Five Satins' "In the Still of the Night" in a list of most enduring doo-wop songs. [2]