CD - VA - Too Late To Be Good - Vocal Harmony Vanguard 1937 - 52

Vocal group harmony enjoyed its golden years from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s when groups such as The Platters, The Drifters and The 4 Seasons regularly topped the national Billboard Pop and R&B Charts, but the tradition goes back much further than that, right back to the dawn of recorded sound and beyond in fact. This CD, however, concentrates on the post-war 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, for better or worse, as Doo Wop.

1. Paw's In The Kitchen - JAMES QUINTET

2. I'm Just A Fool - JAMES QUINTET

3. Telephone Blues - GORMAN & GROUP, Eddie

4. Weekend Blues - BACHELORS

5. I've Got A Right To Be Blue - GREEN & THE MAGICHORDS, Madeli

6. And I Shock - DRIFTERS

7. Big Mouth Mama - BEAVERS

8. Too Late To Be Good Blues - HATHAWAY, Maggie

9. I Ain't Got Nobody - COLEMANS

10. Blue Skies - CATS & THE FIDDLE

11. Pretty-Eyed Baby - JOHNSON, Bill

12. Minute And Hour Blues - FIVE BREEZES

13. Suntan Baby Brown (Suntan Lady) - NORFOLK JAZZ QUARTET

14. Turkey Hop (Pt.1&2)

15. My Friend Told Me - SIR OLIVER

16. Sweet Jenny Lou - AMMONS, Gene

17. What Would It Take? - DELTA RHYTHM BOYS

18. Lover Come Back To Me - KING ODUM FOUR

19. I Didn't Mean To Be So Mean - SMITH, Gene

20. Don't Cry Baby - THREE DOTS & A DASH

21. Around About Midnight - ROBINS

22. Mainliner - LITTLE ESTHER & ROBINS

23. Blues At Dawn - SULTANS

24. Happy Go Lucky Local Blues - ORIOLES

25. W-I-N-E - HOLLYWOOD FOUR FLAMES

26. Gloria - BROWN, Charles