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1 day ago · As a mostly self-taught composer and performer, Zappa had diverse musical influences that led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical modernism, African-American rhythm and blues, and doo-wop music.
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Name Year(s) Appeared on Instrument John Balkin: 1967–1970...
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4 days ago · This was a big hit in 1954 in the Doo-wop genre, but crossed over to the pop charts, and is credited by rock n' roll authority Jay Warner, as being among "the first rock n' roll records". "Crazy Man, Crazy" by Bill Haley and his Comets, recorded in April 1953, was the first of his recordings to make the Billboard pop chart.
4 days ago · When Ponder's brother entered the military, he left his guitar, and Ponder picked it up. In his early teens he received lessons from the guitarist in a band for which he sang doo-wop. He was drawn to the jazz guitar he heard on the radio. While playing in a rhythm and blues band, he occasionally inserted a jazz solo.
4 days ago · Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were an American doo-wop/R&B vocal group in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Originally known by the name, The (Royal) Charms. The band went on to change its ...
4 days ago · ‘F.D.R. in Trinidad’ is a nod to the breadth of his musicality, a reworking of a Trinidadian calypso recorded by the wonderfully named Attila the Hun, while ‘Teardrops Will Fall’ is a wistfully sung ballad which transforms the 1959 duo wop original by Dicky Doo and the Don’ts.
2 days ago · I’m gonna try to make you love me too. So get ready, so get ready ’cause here I come. (Get ready ’cause here I come) I’m on my way. (Get ready ’cause here I come) If you wanna play hide and seek with love, let me remind you. It’s alright. But the lovin’ you’re gonna miss in the time it takes to find you.
5 days ago · FunTrivia, Inc. -. Doo-wop is a vocal harmony musical genre which originated in larger cities of the United States. Doo-wop acts got their start on street corners and eventually were awarded record contracts. This is a matching quiz honoring well known doo-wop groups.
