• The Casinos

  Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye  –

• The Cleftones

  Why Do You Do Me Like You Do  –

• The Culvanes

  Have You No Heart  –

• The Duprees

  You Belong To Me  –

  
  

  Have You Heard  –

• The Earls

  I Believe  –

• The Embers

  Solitaire  –

• The Jaguars

  Please Play A Love Song  –

• The Moonglows

  Ten Commandments Of Love  –

• The Reflections

  Rocket To The Moon  –

  
  

  Hiding Away  –

  
  

  I’ve Got Myself A Catch  –

  
  

  Rebound  –

  
  

  Maybe Tomorrow  –

• The Skyliners

  Medley –

• The Valentines

  Don’t Say Goodnight  –

 

Doo Wop MIDI Files

Doo-wop (sometimes doo-wopp) is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music developed in African American communities in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and areas of greater Los Angeles, including El Monte and Compton. Built upon vocal harmony, doo-wop was one of the most mainstream, pop-oriented R&B styles of the time. Singer Bill Kenny is often noted as the father of Doo-wop for his introduction of the “top & bottom” format used by most doo-wop groups. This format features a high tenor lead with a “talking bass” in the song’s middle.
As a musical genre, doo-wop features vocal group harmony with the musical qualities of many vocal parts, nonsense syllables, a simple beat, sometimes little or no instrumentation, and simple music and lyrics. It is ensemble single artists appearing with a backing group. Solo billing usually implies an individual is more prominent in the musical arrangement.

At various points in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the genre has seen revivals. Main artists are concentrated in urban areas, e.g., (New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, and Los Angeles). Revival TV shows and boxed CD sets (e.g., DooWop Box 1–3) have kindled interest in the music, the artists, and their stories. In December 1968, Frank Zappa’s band The Mothers of Invention released a doo-wop parody/tribute album called Cruising with Ruben & the Jets. An early notable revival of “pure” doo-wop occurred when Sha Na Na appeared at the Woodstock Festival.
Over the years groups have remade doo-wop songs, with great success. Part of the regional beach music or shag music scene, centered in the Carolinas, and surrounding states, includes both the original classic recordings, and numerous remakes. Britain chimed in with notable contributions, in the mid-late 1970s, by the group Darts, who successfully (and with some authenticity) revived revered doo-wop standards such as “Daddy Cool”, “Come Back My Love” and “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart”.
This excerpt is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo-wop