These tunes are a little complex and the harmony is very intricate.

The Do Wop folks capitalized on familiarity and a changing audience.

Some think economics was involved. With the growth of American manufacturing came higher disposable income for workers with less education.

Television was "dumbed down" (remember Steve Allen, Dave Garroway and others?) as the medium got less costly. that affected programming. Some think the same thing happened to music.

Whatever happened, both formerly popular kinds of music have a place in music history and, I'm sure, in the musical careers of lots of us here.

Of course, there was some interesting crossover between these two styles over time, but that's a subject for a different day.


Russ