Doo Wop: The Music, the Times, the Era by Bruce Morrow, Rich Maloof Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Doo Wop: The Music, the Times, the Era
Book Review: Doo Wop The Way It Should Be Remembered!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am an avid listener of Doo Wop music. Back in the late 50s and early 60s, we use to listen to several radio stations (Transistor Radio that is) here in the greater New Yrok Metropolitan area. They were WMCA with the Good Guys, WABC with the All Americans, and WINS where we listened to Brucie ( moved to WABC in the 60s) and Alan Freed.
This volume is rich in history and brings back memories from Palisade's Amusement Park that was located in New Jersey and Coney Island located in Brooklyn. As an avid watcher of the PBS Doo Wop specials, all of this is captured in this book!
My biggest appreciation is that we are finally recognizing the artists and their contributions to society. I really do think that this was the "People's Music" and it crossed-over into many differnt cultures and demographics of the day.
In closing, I would like to thank Cousin Brucie for putting this piece of work together. I highly recommend it and if you are from New York, we would on WABC call a song that was going to be a winner a "SURE SHOT"! This IS a "SURE SHOT" and a "Super Number One" Hit!
Dennis Goldensohn singing Four Part Harmony on the street corners of NYC
Book Review: What a great book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is beautiful. I purchased it for my mother for the holidays and I cant wait to give it to her. The book is filled with lots of pictures and plenty of information. This book weighs at least 5 lbs. Perfect gift for the doo wop era lover.Book Review: Great Book on 50s /60s Pop Culture - Just Mistitled
Summary: 5 Stars
With the words "DOO WOP" in huge letters on the front and throughout the book, the publisher leads you to believe that this is a book celebrating what is better known as "Vocal Group Harmony". But it's not! The Beach Boys may harmonize but their records were not "Do Wop". Brenda Lee - Doo wop? `Fraid not.
But what the book IS a celebration of the music and styles and pop culture of the ;ate 1950s to about 1963 when the British Invasion arrived and - as that it succeeds! Bruce Morrow was legendary on New York's WABC but he didn't just play Doo Wop. In fact the only 100% doo wop you would hear when he was on WCBS in the 1990s was on another show on the station: "Don K. Reed's Doo Wop Shop".
But teaming with "promoter" T. J. Lubinski - the guy who started the first PBS beg-a-thon oldies show, "Doo Wop 50" and has produced umpteen more in other pop music genres since then - as "co-author" Morrow has put together great piece of "eye candy", thanks to the color resolution of this book from Sterling. "Cousin Brucie" reminisces throughout, but your be drawn to the great photos and images and bring back your own memories. This is not a $100. coffee table book (but it's heavy enough to use for one!). It's moderately priced and a fun thing to look through. It's approaching Christmas time and I can't think of a neater gift to give to someone who graduated high school between 1958 and 1965. Think of it as one of those PBS oldies shows for your eyes - where the vocal groups - and boy and girl singers still had their hair!
Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"
Book Review: Doo Wop: A book you will treasure for many years to come.
Summary: 5 Stars
Cousin Bruce has done it again. Yes, the Doo Wop book is a book that you will treasure many years to come. As a reader, it will refresh your memory about the glory days of rock n roll and the doo wop era. Many pictures and bio's of groups from the past our in this book. The book also gives some history and credits to many other fashion, fads, music and tv shows of that time. You will not be disappointed when you purchase this book.Book Review: Terrific Doo Wop book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic book. Cousin Brucie Morrow is a terrific storyteller and captures the entire era that nurtured Doo Wop. In addition to learning all about the music, music business, the top groups (and one-hit-wonders) he discusses 1950s pop culture, icons, politics, teenage times and more. He also brings readers into the early 1960s and the arrival of The Beatles. This is a beautifully designed, coffee-table size book which will make a terrific Holiday gift.