R&B: From Doo Wop to Hip Hop

Ravens | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00001SIF6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,000 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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CBS Records (now Sony Music) didn't make a concerted effort to woo the black pop marketplace until the early '70s, so its catalog of R&B and soul was fairly thin until the advent of Sly and the Philly Sound. But that's not to say its labels--particularly OKeh--didn't release some true classics of the genre pre-Family Stone. Just because the corporate powers that be allowed great protorockers such as the Treniers and Roy Hamilton to be largely ghettoized in the '50s is no excuse to miss them now. Or that you shouldn't hear balladeer Walter Jackson's towering, elegant, grateful-to-bursting "My Ship Is Comin' In" (1967) due to the company's lousy promotion of the disc at the time. Despite whatever sins are to be atoned for (including Sony's ego-tripping series Soundtrack to a Century, this set's raison d'être, From Doo-Wop to Hip Hop does tickle one's historic imagination by bringing together raucous touchstones such as "I Put a Spell on You" (in its slightly snipped version) and "Bring the Noise" and smooth ones such as "Me and Mrs. Jones" and "Pony." --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars R&B: From Doo Wop to Hip Hop, November 15, 2008

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Lynn (Poinciana, Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: R&B: From Doo Wop to Hip Hop (Audio CD)

Great music! Brings back memories of of very good times and experiences.

CD made a fantastic gift for a friend who was looking everywhere to

replace a former copy.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, December 13, 1999

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Z. THOMPSON "Booklover" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: R&B: From Doo Wop to Hip Hop (Audio CD)

I bought this the other day and listened to it on my way back home. It had songs that I loved and some I had forgotten about. It was certainly worth the money spent.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Educational but disappointing, August 18, 2008

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Clinton Moore - See all my reviews
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This review is from: R&B: From Doo Wop to Hip Hop (Audio CD)

This album was educational, but there was so few true dance tracks; and it disappointed me. The dance music market is the only reason why I even like R&B (of any kind) in the first place.

As educational as this compilation album's theme may sound; it was just so disappointing that there was only one hip hop track that sampled a funk song! :-(