TOO LATE TO BE GOOD! – VOCAL HARMONY VANGUARD

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.

EL TORO R&B 103- VARIOUS ARTISTS - TOO LATE TO BE GOOD! – VOCAL HARMONY VANGUARD
Tracking Lists:
1) Paw's In The Kitchen - The James Quintet (Derby 1950)
2) Telephone Blues - Eddie Gorman & Group (DeLuxe 1949)
3) Weekend Blues - The Bachelors (International 1950)
4) I've Got A Right To Be Blue - Madeline Green & The Magichords (Domino 1950)
5) And I Shook - The Drifters (Coral 1950)
6) Big Mouth Mama - The Beavers (Coral 1950)
7) Too Late To Be Good Blues - Maggie Hathaway & Her Bluesmen (Black & White 1946)
8) I'm Just A Fool - The James Quintet (Derby 1950)
9) I Ain't Got Nobody - The Colemans (Regal 1950)
10) Blue Skies - The Cats & The Fiddle (Bluebird 1941)
11) Pretty-Eyed Baby - Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes (RCA Victor 1947)
12) Minute And Hour Blues - The Five Breezes (Bluebird 1940)
13) Suntan Baby Brown (Suntan Lady) - The Norfolk Jazz Quartet (Decca 1937)
14) Turkey Hop (parts 1 & 2) - The Hamptones with Lionel Hampton's Orch. (Decca 1950)
15) My Friend Told Me - Sy Oliver with The Ray Charles Singers (Decca 1951)
16) Sweet Jennie Lou - Gene Ammons & Group (Prestige 1950)
17) What Would It Take? - The Delta Rhythm Boys (Decca 1947)
18) Lover Come Back To Me - The King Odum Four (Derby 1950)
19) I Didn't Mean To Be So Mean - Gene Smith & The Four Notes (Blue Key 1952)
20) Don't Cry Baby - The Three Dots & A Dash (Imperial 1951)
21) Around About Midnight - The Robins (Aladdin 1949)
22) Mainliner - Little Esther & The Robins (Federal 1952)
23) Blues At Dawn - The Sultans (Jubilee 1951)
24) Happy Go Lucky Local Blues - The Orioles (Jubilee 1951)
25) W-I-N-E - The Hollywood Four Flames (Unique 1950)
26) Gloria - Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (Exclusive 1946)