The Crests vs. The Flamingos
This entire album is on the above titled album plus 8 songs by the Flamingos for the same price. Get your money's worth if you like this music.
eMusic Features
Doo Wop: An eMusic Guide
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic Contributor
Doo Wop is as uniquely American a musical art form as jazz or the blues or hip-hop. But over time it has been cast aside, identified as "old people music" and thus profoundly unhip. This kind of dismissal ignores not just the genre's influence—R&B would never be the same after doo wop's mannered thunderclap style came along—but also its vivid and naked emotionalism, performed in a uniquely consonant style of singing created in the 1940s.… more »