Dootone Doo Wop Vol 3 Various Artists (Dootone)

£11.50

Genre:
Doo Wop
Label:
Ace Records
Format:
CD
Catalogue Id:
CDCHD 676

A straight $1000. That's what the latest edition of Jeff Kreiter's Group Collector's Record Price Guide (indispensable for all real doo wop fans) reckons it would take to amass the 45s featured on DOOTONE DOO WOP VOLUME 3. But even that wouldn't get you the seven unreleased songs and one of the later LP tracks that are also featured on this CD, the third helping of great vocal group sounds from Dootsie Williams' Dootone label.

This compilation contrasts several of Dootsie's later group recordings of the early 60s against the mainstream doo wop sounds from 1955-58. Featured from the early years are the label's stalwarts, the Penguins and the Medallions, along with tracks from the Fascinators and Eli & the Manhattans. The rarest tracks on the compilation, by the way, are the Dootones'Teller of Fortune and the Pipes, who are represented by Be Fair and I Love The Life I Live, both of which are $200 45s if you could but get you hands on them. The early 60s groups are represented by Charles McCullough and the Silks, the Creators and the Crusaders.

Strongly featured on this collection are the Cuff Links, (the Guided Missiles' team whose major hit is to be found on Vol 1), a group that's special in at least a couple of ways. First of all, as Jim Dawson relates in his notes to the CD, the group suffered the indignity of seeing another group with a differently spelled, but similar, name (the Kuf-linx on the Challenge label) have a hit with the song So Tough, itself a cover of the song first done by the Original Casuals on Backbeat. Dootsie Williams then released his own version of the song with the group's name spelled as the Cufflinx, but no success to match that of the Guided Missiles was to come his way. They're also special because they probably hold the record for the largest number of variations of a group name - theirs is spelled slightly differently on almost every release on the Dootone label!

Amongst the previously unreleased tunes on this compilation are some by the Dootones and the Fabulous Pearls, but my favourite is a version of The Cause Of A Bad Romance by the Debonaires. We'll be featuring their released version of this song in the up-coming Best of Combo Doo Wop Groups series and anyone who might have Combo pictures and/or memorabilia that could be used in the series is requested to get in touch (we would be grateful if you wouldn't send anything in on spec). There should be something for every vocal group fan on this CD, including one well-known UK reviewer's favourite Dootone record - Willie Headen & the Birds Back Home Again, a track which he simply couldn't understand why we hadn't put it on either of the two previous volumes in this series (Ace CDCHD 579 and 588). Next time out for groups from the Dootone label may well be a gospel collection, if we can but only track down some of the missing gems!


by Peter Gibbon

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Side 1

  • 01 Preview Be Fair - The Pipes

  • 02 Preview Trick Knees - The Cufflinx

  • 03 Preview My Big Dream - Eli & The Manhattans

  • 04 Preview Shivers And Shakes - The Fascinators

  • 05 Preview Going Away Baby - The Doowhoppers

  • 06 Preview Chancing My Love - The Cufflinx

  • 07 Preview Strange Love Affair - The Dootones

  • 08 Preview Look At A Fool - The Souvenirs

  • 09 Preview Baby Let's Make Some Love - The Penguins

  • 10 Preview I've Had You - The Creators

  • 11 Preview So Tough - The Cufflinx

  • 12 Preview Edna - Vernon Green & The Medallions

  • 13 Preview Please Don't Stop Me - The Dootones

  • 14 Preview I Cried All Night Long - Charles McCullough & The Silks

  • 15 Preview Hard Time Lover - The Cuff Links

  • 16 Preview Teardrop Eyes - The Fascinators

  • 17 Preview Baby Drop Top - The Fabulous Pearls

  • 18 Preview Teller Of Fortunes - The Dootones

  • 19 Preview I Don't Want Nobody - The Cufflinx

  • 20 Preview Darling Be Mine - The Doowhoppers

  • 21 Preview I Love The Life I Live - The Pipes

  • 22 Preview The Cause Of A Bad Romance - The Debonaires

  • 23 Preview My Love Is With You - The Cufflinx

  • 24 Preview I Found Someone - The Crusaders

  • 25 Preview Back Home Again - Willie Headen & The Birds

  • 26 Preview Baby Doll - The Crescendos

  • 27 Preview Zorro - Charles McCullough & The Silks

  • 28 Preview A Fool's Fortune - The Cufflinx

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This is a fine series and a worthy and fitting tribute to a classic West Coast label.

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