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Track List
Why Do Fools Fall in Love - The Teenagers - (featuring Frankie Lymon)Most of All - The MoonglowsSpeedoo - The Cadillacs/Jesse Powell OrchestraClose Your Eyes - The Five KeysAt My Front Door - The El DoradosAdorable - The ColtsWhat'cha Gonna Do - Clyde McPhatter & The DriftersStory Untold - The NutmegsOnly You (And You Alone) - The PlattersDon't Change Your Pretty Ways - The MidnightersLonely Nights - Al Sears Orchestra/The HeartsWhen You Dance - The TurbansGot the Water Boiling - The RegalsWay You Dog Me Around, The - The Diablos - (featuring Nolan Strong)Chop Chop BoomSoldier Boy - The Four Fellows/The Abie Baker OrchestraCome Back My Love - The WrensWhy Don't You Write Me? - The JacksWitchcraft - The SpidersLife Is But a Dream - The HarptonesSmokey Joe's Café - The RobinsSmoke from Your Cigarette - The Mellows - (featuring Lillian Leach)You Tickle Me Baby - The Royal JokersHeaven and Paradise - Don Julian & the MeadowlarksYou Baby You - Jimmy Wright & His Orchestra/The CleftonesBurn That Candle - The CuesIt Wasn't a Lie - The Fi-Tones QuintetteRollin' Stone - The MarigoldsNewly Wed - The OrchidsZindy Lou - The ChimesLily Maebelle - The ValentinesDoor Is Still Open, The - The CardinalsRed Hots and Chili MacAlbum Notes
Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Illustrators: Stefan Wriedt; Charlie Horner; R.A. Andreas; Pamela Horner; Victor Pearlin; Billy Vera.
For the seventh volume of their doo wop history Street Corner Symphonies, Bear Family recaps the year 1955, which is when the sound really started to take off. Much of this is due to the groups getting wilder, looser, funnier, embracing sharply swinging rhythms and nonsense words, turning into a code of its own. Surely, there was still a lot of soft, dreamy harmonizing -- doo wop never would lose that -- but many of the breakneck classics of the genre came out this year: Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," the Cadillacs' "Speedoo," the El Dorados' "At My Front Door," the Robins' "Smokey Joe's Café." Among these are plenty of groups well renowned by genre aficionados -- the Diablos, the Wrens, the Spiders, the Jacks -- and gorgeous slow-dance standards like the Platters' "Only You," all of which highlight just how splendid this year was. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
