[78-L] Five Faves

[Gregg Kimball]

Steven, the connection to Doo Wop is an interesting one, but not one I've 
studied.  Is there a work that discusses the regional origins of Doo Wop 
artists?  I suspect many did come up from Hampton Roads and NC into the 
hotbeds of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. One of the few vocal 
quartets still working in Virginia, the Paschall Brothers, told me that 
their father came up from Eastern NC first to Hampton Roads and then to 
Philadelphia, where he made a few quartet recordings.

Dave, I wish I had a better handle on the Birmingham sound.  I just listened 
to the Birmingham Quartet, Birmingham Boys / Southbound Train, last week, 
and it sounded very barbershop-y, much more so than most of the Hampton 
Roads groups. But that could be a function of chronology rather than 
geography.

Gregg Kimball

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Five Faves

>>> 5.  1920s and 30s Norfolk quartets, especially the Silver Leaf Quartette
>>> and
>>> the Monarch Jazz Quartet's What's the Matter Now? b/w Four or Five 
>>> Times.
>>>
>> I have a few of these...I always bid on (and again, often won!) any
>> "Norfolk"
>> vocal 78's I saw on lists! One can listen to these records and learn 
>> where
>> "doo-wop" came from...!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
> The other day I worked on transfers of a batch of Birmingham gospel 
> groups. The
> Bessemer Sunset Four had a lead vocal who sounds an AWFUL lot like Johnny 
> Mercer.
>
> dl
>
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