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HOT HOT Vocal Harmony jive !!!! Vocal group harmony enjoyed it's golden years from the mid 1950s to the mid '60s, but the tradition goes back much further. 'Too Late To Be Good' concentrates on the rise of the vocal ensemble in a variety of different settings - quartets, quintets, ensemble jive and jazz groups, acapella harmony units and big band vocal groups - but all architects of the modern style that would come to be known as Doo Wop. TRACK LISTING: Paw's In The Kitchen - The James Quintet Telephone Blues - Eddie Gorman & Group Weekend Blues - The Bachelors I've Got A Right To Be Blue - Madeline Green & The Magichords And I Shook - The Drifters Big Mouth Mama - The Beavers Too Late To Be Good Blues - Maggie Hathaway & Her Bluesmen I'm Just A Fool - The James Quintet I Ain't Got Nobody - The Colemans Blue Skies - The Cats & The Fiddle Pretty-Eyed Baby - Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes Minute And Hour Blues - The Five Breezes Suntan Baby Brown (Suntan Lady) - The Norfolk Jazz Quartet Turkey Hop (parts 1 & 2) - The Hamptones with Lionel Hampton's Orch. My Friend Told Me - Sy Oliver with The Ray Charles Singers Sweet Jennie Lou - Gene Ammons & Group What Would It Take? - The Delta Rhythm Boys Lover Come Back To Me - The King Odum Four I Didn't Mean To Be So Mean - Gene Smith & The Four Notes Don't Cry Baby - The Three Dots & A Dash Around About Midnight - The Robins Mainliner - Little Esther & The Robins Blues At Dawn - The Sultans Happy Go Lucky Local Blues - The Orioles W-I-N-E - The Hollywood Four Flames Gloria - Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers. |