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All Alone on Christmas - Darlene Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1uJPGRfO5Y I don't care what anyone says, the greatest Christmas rock song is the Phil Spector...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZPtkqXQIA From doo-wop came the great male soul five voice r&b / soul groups: lead tenor, tenor, alto,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX5YPpfOINQ The thing about doo-wop, even slow doo-wop, at its best it has the ability to make your hair...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afuHNPY_shw Probably the first group to record what became know as doo-wop was the Ravens in 1946....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlIDiho9gUg Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS9U75YC-jA The Mills Brothers were the precursers of doo-wop and also the first great early US black...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o It has always struck me that slow doo-wop has a kind of Christmassy, hot chestnuts by the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSC0rujhwQ Howard DeVoto was of course lead singer of Manchester punk band Buzzcocks before leaving to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybUqM8jf3mU Also in Manchester, a fellow student who lived in the same house as us was the divertingly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypF1N4884lQ Continuing on the literary references in pop / rock, apart from Sparks (see last post) and...