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CD - Shirley Gunter - Oop Shoop: The Flair And Modern Recordings 1953-1957

CD - Shirley Gunter - Oop Shoop: The Flair And Modern Recordings 1953-1957

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CD - Shirley Gunter - Oop Shoop: The Flair And Modern Recordings 1953-1957.

Shirley Gunter and the Queens are often cited as being the first fully-fledged female doo wop group. Even if that’s impossible to prove with 100% accuracy, they were certainly among the first in that field. What is beyond question, is the fact that their 1954 Flair recording of Oop Shoop was the first record of its kind to make a national impact, in the early days of rock‘n’roll. That’s to say that it was the first to be written and performed, with any degree of success, by a group of young black women.

Tracks:
01. Oop Shoop
02. Strange Romance
03. Found Some Good Lovin'
04. Send Him Back
05. It's You
06. In My Heart
07. Baby, I Love You So
08. What Difference Does It Make?
09. I Just Got Rid Of A Heartache
10. Ipsy Opsie Ooh
11. Since I Fell For You
12. I Want You
13. How Can I Tell You
14. The Way I Like It
15. I've Been Searching
16. Fortune In Love
17. I'm Sorry
18. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
19. Headin' Home
20. Come On
21. Please Tell Me
22. You're Mine
23. Why
24. Let's Get Married
25. How Can I Tell You
26. Ipsy Opsie Ooh

Although we’ve featured several of Shirley’s recordings on numerous Ace CD and vinyl compilations down the years, it’s perhaps surprising to note that we’ve never actually given the lady her own full-length album. The news of her upcoming debut UK appearance in November, at this year’s Rhythm Riot, gave us the timely reminder that we had yet to do so. Thus it was that earlier this year I had the extreme pleasure of reviewing all of Ms Gunter’s 1950s Flair and Modern tapes, with a view to putting such a compilation together – a task that I found both enjoyable and easy! A CD entitled Oop Shoop is, perhaps inevitably, the result. 
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