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  1. Returning to Inkster, Georgia Dobbins contacted a local musician named William Garrett, who had an unfinished blues composition titled "Please Mr. Postman"; Garrett allowed Dobbins to use it as long as he received songwriting credit if the song became a hit.

  2. Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a genre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. It features vocal group harmony that ...

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  4. Dec 31, 2007 · Both hip-hop and doo wop are the music of the streets—but the streets have changed. DJ Bruce Morrow—Cousin Brucie to listeners—sits in his decidedly 1950s West Village townhouse, a curvy ...

  5. Jul 8, 2009 · Here's one of the most successful doo-wop groups, The Platters, performing "The Great Pretender" and "Only You" in 1955. LINK Shortly after its ascent in the mid-'50s, doo-wop became a world of ...

  6. Dec 18, 2017 · Doo-Wop On Music 101. When you think of America in the 1950’s, likely at some point your mind goes to Doo-Wop. For such short-lived popularity on the charts, Doo-Wop has lived a much more full life in nostalgia. Doo-Wop originates from the barbershop quartets of the late 19th, early 20th centuries. Barbershop is a very specific style of ...

  7. Doo-wop is a genre of music that was developed in African-American communities in The USA. It started in the 1940s. Doo-wop achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. Built upon vocal harmony, doo-wop was one of the most mainstream, pop-oriented R&B styles of the time. Singer Bill Kenny (1914–1978) is often called the ...

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_CrestsThe Crests - Wikipedia

    The Crests are an American doo-wop group, formed by bass vocalist J.T. Carter in the mid 1950s. The group had several Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Coed Records . Their most popular song, " 16 Candles ", rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1959 selling over one million copies and earning a gold disc status . [1]