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While reading The Myrobalan Seed blog I saw an article about Sadvipran or spiritual Hip Hop music and it reminded me of the attempt that I made to mix spirituality with American Doo wop music.

Doo wop is the name given to rock ‘n’ roll vocal group music that began to emerge in the early 1950s. At the time it was called rhythm and blues and then finally rock ‘n’ roll. The genre got its name because the groups added vocalizations like doo-wop, dits, shoo bop, and other sounds which are akin to the scat singing in jazz where the vocalists sing wordless syllables to set the beat
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A good example of early doo wop is The Crow’s “Gee” recorded in 1953. It begins “Dit, dita, dit, dita, dit, dita, dita, dita” and then the lead singer launches into the lyric proclaiming his love for a girl named Gee. The critics of rock ‘n’ roll had a field day with these songs. TV variety show host Steve Allen got a lot of laughs when he would read out the lyrics of rock ‘n’ roll songs including all the dits and doo-wops. The teenagers of the day were not laughing but dancing and grooving with this new kind of music that liberated them from the crooners their parents were listening to. Continue reading