Music

March, 1983

Ten Years That Shoobopped The World: In the late Fifties and early Sixties, lines of seemingly nonsensical phonetics called doo-wop frequently told the discerning pop or rock fan all he or she needed to know. That was back when rock 'n' roll was still a pulse on the circuit that ran roughly between the solar plexus and the groin--before anybody had thought of subjecting rock 'n' roll to music's stuffier conventions, such as thoughtful criticism, production values and a demand that musicians know...