Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in America. The term was coined by a DJ, Gus Gossert, in the 1970s referring to (mostly) white Rock & Roll groups of the late 50s and early 60s. It became the fashion in the 1990s to keep expanding the definition backward to take in Rhythm & Blues groups from the mid-1950s and then further back to include groups from the early 1950s and even the 1940s. There is no consensus as to what constitutes a Doo-wop song, and many, many aficionados of R&B music dislike the term intensely.

Samples

• of The Ink Spots' "If I Didn’t Care", the first hit for The Ink Spots, a major influence on doo wop groups
• of The Flamingos' "Nobody Loves Me Like You", a popular doo wop song composed by Sam Cooke, from the 1960 album "Requestfully Yours."