Hey! Who doesn't like the Platters, The Diamonds (Little Darling)? Our band did all of the Do-Wop, Shoo Dupe N’ Shoobee Do stuff of the day and I still love it. Watched many a Do Wop on PBS over the years.

What I'm doing is drawing a comparison to two of the greatest vocal groups competing with the Do Wop groups back in the day early 50’s, to what the instrumentalist Jazzers had to go through with the R&R, R&B so on and so forth of the time.

These people ( The Four Aces and The Four Freshman) actually sang flatted ninths and extended notes of a chord. It is a shame they had to go by the wayside too.

All I am saying is I figure more than half the people here somewhere along the way has and probably works or worked with a group that could do just about every Do Wop song ever written, right?

Here is the big question. Are there any people here that were ever affiliated with a group of vocalist that could produce the harmony on the tunes I have posted here?

You do not hear groups today that can do what these vocalist did with four voices because the tone deaf singers of today can't do it, not even with their pitch controllers.

I mean just think ,they could even cheat by using their harmony machines and play the intricate chord structure and learn and practice what the harmony machine produces and innovate. It too hard, too cold, too hot, Oops I'm getting confused with the hired help I use to get to lay brick in 103 degrees or 22 degrees. Sorry about that! I'll now try to get back on track, OK!

It’s obvious that these vocalist knew chord theory inside out, upside down, over, and out. Ha ha! This means that they weren't just entertainers. They were true musicians first, that knew every chord voicing that is possible to structure, right?

I'm sure that they knew more then the four chords that DonM, Gary and I know. It must be so. They probably used the piano to figure out the voicing.

Can you imagine how these fellows felt having to move over for the C, Am, F, (orDm) G chord structure Do Wopper groups? They had to be pissed.

Don’t forget this is not an argument because I grew up with the Do Woppers and still enjoy them. This post is about putting things into perspective, victims of circumstance or however the intelligent folks here can explain what I’m trying to say.

Come on Chas, Russ everybody. What am I trying to say here eh? Listen to these true vocalist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=teuQEoeWPpA&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=pFRW_yqsFHU&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2BUZtD688&feature=related