The most successful version of this song was by The Crew Cuts; on August 7th, 1954 it reached #1 {for 7 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and spent 30 weeks in the Top 100..
The original version was by te doo-wop group The Chords; in 1954 it peaked at #3 on the R&B charts and #9 on the Pop charts...
The British revivalist doo-wop group Darts' version reached #48 in the U.K. chart in 1980
The Fleetwoods release a covered version which did not make the charts...
Questo è il primo disco che annuncia la nuova musica del rock'n'roll a cui seguiranno, per il suo successo, numerose altre sue versioni. Viva il rock'n'roll!
@TheRedDynasty Ha...gotta love you Canadians. Such peaceful people. You're right, our relationship is strong, and always will be strong. My comment was to represent hatred towards the little twat that talked back to my comment. Not you, as far as i'm concerned, you and I have nothing further to talk about. So don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
@northlanderdude No, you assume I think i'm better than you. As do all foreigner's like you. THAT'S why you hate us. When in reality you know nothing about us. I really couldn't care less though, hate me or don't. The point is, it's an American classic song. The canadian version sounded like it was recorded at a bar at midnight. Fuck you, fuck canada, and fuck the crew cuts. Welcome to American hospitality, chump.
Actually it was Patrick Swayze's Roadhouse that brought me here. The "bad guy" plays this in his car while driving without due care and attention/dangerously
I just listened to the soundtrack again. I think for the movie, they had their own slightly different version recorded, just like all the others on the official soundtrack. Great music though!
@sturminator1000 Actually, I learned about this song from the version done by the "Crew Cuts" (which is not quite as good as this one, but still wonderful), that was used in "Clue: The Movie" in possibly the most awkward scene of the movie.
if you know a song from the 50's/60's from a white band chances are they covered that same song from a black band. u know damn well white people couldnt make good music with such soul back then did ya?? lol
I'm not sure why people on the comment section are fighten about new music when in classics like this we have to get use to it...i mean we wouldnt have a GRIP of classics if we didnt accept new style...but in my perspective,music has been turned into nuttin but sex,money,and drugs...and that is NOT the only principle of what true music is...stop making these "oh jb sucks cuz he can never be this good" comments and post one that has a good explanation like mine does...
@mariahbowles6 cannot agree with you more i listened to both songs in my rock and roll history class today and its been stuck in my head ever since lol im sure it was quite a sight to see a big football player in the weight room singing sha boom hahaha
I love this kind of music because back when this style was new, these people HAD to be good singers otherwise no one would listen to them. They couldn't doctor the music in a studio to make it sound better, they had to get it right. I'm 14, and I live for this music. It always makes my day and it makes me smile no matter what. I don't care if people my age think I'm lame, THIS is what real music is supposed to sound like.
Ok I'm not sure where you live but chances are there is a non for profit radio station or a college radio station near you where you can hear a variety of new music that doesn't suck. Support it and quit assuming the past is the only bastion of great music because if your basing today's music on the mainstream then of course its mostly going to suck.
Also if you listen to internet radio stations go listen to WLNG because guess what? They play this song and more. Best damned oldies station out there IMO.
@horsegal10 You are not " lame ", to use that word.
You appreciate good music, REAL music. And your point is very valid. This is not techno-driven, syntho-driven, computer-enhanced drek. Performers HAD to be performers and SING, not merely act as vocal back-drop to syntho, bass & percussion tracks that had already been laid down. Sort-of musical paint-by-numbers ( sing-by-numbers. ) Just the fact that someone of your age ( no condescension intended ) likes REAL music, tells me there's hope.
i was born too late. OMG i hate bing surrounded by todays music when i have a passion for music from the 50's. I may only be 13, but i think i know good music when i hear it and this fits the bill
@Catilac65 But! Being alive now you have the advantage of having all that music recorded and available (not to mention, instantly), plus everything that music has influenced throughout the years, plus modern artists that employ styles closer to this kind of music.
@kignofpei Precisely - the whole piece of the pie - and as you've alluded, we get to see the evolution and progression of music because we have the history, in tact, specifically on YouTube. So, don't hate, appreciate.
I like the music/beat of this version better, but I think the Crew Cuts sang it better imo. There were too many times in this where they just sang the same note. Was a little annoying, almost like they were just yelling.
THE CHORDS WERE THE FIRST AND ORIGINAL VERSION. who were The Crew Cut? they're just a copy I don't even feel it at all-no fast uptempo!!!!! I very very much love the part At 1:22 like it takes me back to those good old days, just love it.
@555aahouse1 Since YOU TUBE my life is a little brighter because I found that there are 1000's like myself that KNOW THE TRUTH about ORIGINAL RECORDS,,GROUPS etc etc. However on the other hand whenever people try to tell me that R&R came from Africa I have to remind them that they didn't bring a GUITAR with them on them ships. They listened to the original country music on stations like WSM and then did it THEIR WAY.
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 hahahahha you made me laughed with your nonsense answer!! excuse me, I am not being disrespectful here but not necessarily they would have to bring guitars with them. " what this has to do with ships,slavery, guitars ?????? its just in thier blood/roots their natural origins. like caribean music, salsa music, tropical music have those "African Rhythms" come on senor!
@555aahouse1 I love R&B music and the original beginnings of R&R,,but I don't try to kid myself about where things came from. Blacks in the south "HAD TO" listen to the only music that was "on the air" in those days and sing the hymns that were in "english" not their native languages (notice I said languages,,because there were many) The hymns in the black churches were the same hymns as the white churches,,but the blacks put more bounce to the ounce in their versions,,making church fun.
@irishshako lol thats like saying if the British didnt starve you micks to death, there wouldnt be any irish accomplishments in the U.S.....love your logic
The Crew-Cuts version absolutely sucks- the 50's cover artists should be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of societal racism at the expense of these wonderful talented artists.
@billchew450 I know you mean well,,and I sometimes feel the same way,,however remember this,,the white cover groups brought that music to the fore,,and also the black writers of many of those songs got big royality checks,,,and some still do. I was in radio all those years "in the beginning" and saw many things. I was never what you call a BIG ELVIS FAN but him and his bunch,,brought rock right in the front door,,intead of the backdoor.
im 15 i go to a party they play new music kids stand around, then once i went to a 'weird' girls girls house we played this type of music we couldnt resist eachother haha goes to show the difference in music
Note : I'm a music historian and I like The Platters , just as much as I like The Skyliners . I like Count Basie, just as I like Glenn Miller or Benny Goodman. This isn't a hate issue here, just a historical one between me and whoever this "DeportAnchorBabies" is , but now it's over. Barbershop is European by origin, and so is what would later become known as "rapping", originally called "Calling" minus the b/s profanity. That wraps it up for me.
@MrRJDB1969 "Rapping can be traced back to its African roots. Centuries before hip hop music existed, the griots of West Africa were delivering stories rhythmically, over drums and sparse instrumentation. Such connections have been acknowledged by many modern artists, modern day "griots", spoken word artists, mainstream news sources, and academics"
@MrRJDB1969 All the revisionist crap you churn out will not eliminate the fact that this country's musical heritage lie,primarily, within the Black community ;)
Recorded on March 15, 1954 (and credited to the five men pictured above), and originally released on Atlantic's "Cat" label. By the end of June 1954, the song became a "Top Five" hit nationally, which led Mercury records to issue a "cover" version by The Crew Cuts, a white vocal group from Canada; their "softer" version {"Sh-Boom, Sh-Boom/Ya-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.."} was somewhat blander...AND more popular, becoming the #1 song on the charts that August.
Dude.. I thought it was a white group that sung this song! Maaaan, it seems Rock&Roll... DooWop, and anything called..(MUSIC), was all created by Black people!
Are maan, well the blacks of today dont make Real Music anymore... Pity, it was good in those days, whether they were persecuted or not!
@yaniska100 : How very little you know about recorded or written music to say something off the wall like "anything called music was all created by black people". Written music was started in Europe, by or just before Mozart, Beethoven, etc. , Barbershop harmonizing began in white barbershops at a time when there were no black barbershops. The instruments, such as the saxophone for example, were created by white men. Rock N Roll is Country & Western mixed with Rhythm & Blues. Also............
@MrRJDB1969 I dont think so.Look up "Barbershop quartets".African Americans are credited for starting "Barbershop harmonizing".
"The first uses of the term were associated with African Americans. Henry notes that "The Mills Brothers learned to harmonize in their father's barber shop in Piqua, Ohio. Several other well-known African American gospel quartets were founded in neighborhood barber shops, among them the New Orleans Humming Four, the Southern Stars and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartette."
@DeportAnchorBabies : Do you really think "Barbershop" singing began in the 1940's by black people ? Funny, since "Barbershop" singing began in Europe at a time when African's, in Africa, had no idea what vocal harmonizing even was and it's truly doubtful, if later in the 1860's, in The United States , while 98% of American "Blacks" were slaves, that they actually owned barbershops of their own, to be able to "create" barbershop singing. No, I don't need to read some bogus blog. Funny.
@MrRJDB1969 I didnt say it started in the 40's. I know it goes back further than that, but blacks DID start it. Thats an unassailable fact thats well documented."Barbershop" singing in Europe, is not "Barbershop" singing, as America would know it.DiD Europeans vocalize? Yes, but not in the American way.Even today, in blacks churches this tradition is alive
@MrRJDB1969 So what if whites created the instruments?Who created the music on the instruments? Blues,Ragtime,Jazz,rock,etc ? Blacks did.
Thats like the inventor of the hammer,wrench, or some other tool , claiming the empire state building just because his tools were used to build it lol.
@yaniska100 : Cont: who do you think wrote and arranged the music that made The Platters, The Coasters, The Drifters, The Chiffons, etc. etc. so popular...people like Buck Ram, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller etc. One of the pioneer jazz vocal groups from the 1920's The Rhythm Boys , which included Bing Crosby pre-date The Ink Spots & The Mills Brothers by a number of years. Lastly, today's "rapping" is nothing more than Country Square Dance "Calling" with profanity thrown in. Learn.
@MrRJDB1969 (continued) Barbershop harmonies remain in evidence in the a cappella music of the black church. The popular, Christian a cappella group Take 6[5] started in 1980 as The Gentleman's Estate Quartet with the tight, four-part harmony by which barbershop music is known. Early on, the quartet added a fifth harmonic line, but the group's pedigree, like barbershop music, is traceable directly to the black church—and the jazzy renditions of artists like the Mills Brothers, as well.[6][7]
@DeportAnchorBabies : Again, I'm having to teach you !! I see you've hitting the blogs, but I'll do this anyway. You mention "the black church" and where do you suppose "the blacks" learned Christianity , since Christianity wasn't a religion of the Africans back then ? The white people. Since Africa, at the time of slavery, didn't have church building's, Christian hymnals, or even know what a rhyme was, or have written music, but in Europe they did for generations ???
@MrRJDB1969 (continued) came from African Americans. One of the reasons country music was created by African-Americans, as well as European-Americans, is because blacks and whites in rural communities in the south often worked and played together
@MrRJDB1969 You are delusional lollol sorry but im not posting information from blogs.Im posting CREDIBLE info.ARTICLES by music historians.What are you doing?Throwing baseless claims out with no proof whats-so - ever.Im doing more than you are doing.
BTW, Christianity was in Africa before it was ever in Europe.It was in Ethiopia centuries before it was even in Europe, so christianity is hardly a "white" religion to begin with
@MrRJDB1969 Barbershop quartets is more than simply "harmonizing" btw.Look, im posting credible information that says that that tradition has its orgins within the Black american community,and what are you doing?Rambling on and on with no proof of your claims at all.Next thing you are going to tell me is that whites invented Doo Wop music lmao
@MrRJDB1969 The "Rhythm Boys" started just 3 years before the Mills Brothers.Also, one of Bing's major influences was Louis armstrong ( if you want to play who influenced who game)
@DeportAnchorBabies : Alright, pal, this is it for me, but Louis Armstrong didn't harmonize vocally with any group and was mainly a trumpet player. Since written music & arrangements , musical instruments, or even the knowledge of how to read sheet music, was greatly unavailable for early black Americans, it's impossible for the blacks to have taught the whites. Jazz aka Jass singing came about , when a black singer couldn't remember the actual lyrics to a song, typically by a white composer.
@MrRJDB1969 Ofcourse louis didnt harmonize with a group.But he was a major influence to bing nonetheless.And the fact that the rhythm boys predate the Mills Brothers by 3 years, and the ink spots by a considerable number of years, means nothing.That just simply means that they happened to come out before.Dosent mean that they originated their style of music for that matter.
@MrRJDB1969 Sorry but todays rapping derives, in part, from call and response tradition within AA community, not "country square dance calling" as you put it.
@DeportAnchorBabies : B/s, again you are wrong historically. In Country Square Dance, which has been around for decades and dates back to Europe with it's origins, The MC (Master of Ceremonies) calls out Rhyming sentences in a set cadence or rhythm and the dancers follow his direction. This isn't "call & response" for nobody's actually answering anyone. The MC is "calling", what would MUCH later be changed to "rapping" . Slaves learned much from what they saw "Whitey" doing .
@MrRJDB1969 In West Africa, Griots (story tellers) have been around for centuries.Thats where rapping orgins lie, look it up "pal". it has nothing to do with Europeans
@DeportAnchorBabies : Cont : When did you ever hear a true "blues" singer speak an entire song at a fast tempo in rhyming sentences ? Country & Western gets it's influence from Europe, mainly from Ireland, where both slow ballads & uptempo songs were a tradition and spread to The United States and the Square Dance , also from Europe, goes back beyond the 17th century. African music, in Africa, did not rhyme and men & women did not dance "together", however, in Europe they did.
@MrRJDB1969 Country music was definitely,in part, influenced by blacks.Sorry bud
"Often, when many people think or hear country music, they think of it as a creation of European-Americans. However, a great deal of style—and of course, the banjo, a major instrument in most early American folk songs—
@MrRJDB1969 There were plenty of blacks in the Appalachian area during country's early years. There is a documentary here on youtube that examines the black influence in country music.
This is the first record I bought, I was 11! Is this music great, or what! So happy to have grown up in the 50's! Fabulous Music, Cool Cars and Hot Chicks! Crusin' yhe Drive-ins every Friday and Saturday nite, what great memories!
@555aahouse1 Get over your white guilt already. It's dolts like you who gave us the first colored occupant of the White House, i.e., The Red Herring of the United States.
@ourcynic LOL what guilt? he's just telling it how it is. Black doo wop groups were discriminated against..and..they were the best...simple as that
Gotta love how you racist whites like to call non racist whites "liberals" and talk about their supposed "white guilt" when they dont conform to your racist views
@BlacknesUnforgivable "...you racist whites..."? I don't dislike you because you're black. I dislike you because you're a hypocritical jackass. The race card has gotten very boring. Know what's ironic? The so-called white "liberals" that you speak of are the most vile racists I've ever met, and throw the "n" word around all day long. I know you libs wish this weren't true, but, conservative Republicans are responsible for every piece of civil rights legislation that's ever been passed. Check it
@ourcynic Race card? Whites have been playing the "race card" for decades. And sorry but the Republican part of post 60's have nothing to do with the repub's of today. All of those racist dixie crats are now in the republican party.
@BlacknesUnforgivable Well, look. I could argue with you ad nauseum, but, I'd rather just enjoy the music I came here to listen to. As the highest rated comment says, "real music", unlike the ghetto dreck that's being pumped out nowadays.
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Because all those Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms switched right into the Republican Party and they were welcomed with open arms. Their bigoted beliefs corresponded more with the Republicans than the Democrats and that hasn't changed in 45 years. Look up "the Southern Strategy" and its creator Richard Nixon if you want more evidence of how things got "twisted backwards." You'll be very enlightened.
Thumbs up if you know for a fact that The Chords version is much better than The Crew Cuts duplicate.
Rkendall95 1 day ago
original is good but I think the overtones version is better! :D
iModzCentre 3 days ago
Better than the crew cuts
01minimitch 5 days ago
Thumbs up if your Musical History professor's power point presentation brought you here.
piercdbruh 5 days ago 2
Dolphin tale-3
NinjaPeyto 1 week ago
haha fuckers:p
Morgan1340 2 weeks ago
awesome song.....thanks for posting it.
abgtbob 2 weeks ago
The most successful version of this song was by The Crew Cuts; on August 7th, 1954 it reached #1 {for 7 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and spent 30 weeks in the Top 100..
The original version was by te doo-wop group The Chords; in 1954 it peaked at #3 on the R&B charts and #9 on the Pop charts...
The British revivalist doo-wop group Darts' version reached #48 in the U.K. chart in 1980
The Fleetwoods release a covered version which did not make the charts...
sauquoit13456 3 weeks ago
kesha has nothing on jimmy keyes
shadowCAMEL 1 month ago
Screw all those other movies, Cars brought me here, gotta love Pixar!
YTsucks300 1 month ago 6
The Clue movie was fucking awesome!
dynelol 1 month ago 2
I'm in a barbershop quartet and we know this song. We don't sound nearly this good, but this song is really fun!
ThousandthMilePK 1 month ago
Dolphin Tale sent me here too !!!
TheRealScotta 2 months ago
Dolphin Tale sent me here <3
SMDuncan101 2 months ago
daddy cool's version of this is really, really cool.
colourfulnecklace 2 months ago
I love this song. One of the best. And the remake by the crew cuts is the worst remake this side of Michael Bolton
doowoppingchainsawer 2 months ago
@doowoppingchainsawer whatever motherfucker
samhain6677 2 months ago
@samhain6677 Wow, what a coincidence. I DID fuck your mother.
doowoppingchainsawer 2 months ago
i tried to click on another video..... it wouldnt let me. even the computer understands how amazing this is.
MaryPoppins734 3 months ago 2
@MaryPoppins734 That happened with a porn movie I was watching once.
MynameisElliott 2 months ago
the 50s were the wonder years were you could get a car for a great price
56crosley 3 months ago in playlist music
@56crosley what the fuck does that have to do with this song shithead
samhain6677 2 months ago
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DRAGONS AND DAEDRA FTL. BLADES AND BEER FTW. REPOST THIS IN 10 YOUTUBES IF YOUR A TRUE NORD. I AM THE 69%
EvilZombi 3 months ago
Love this song
gadazi1 4 months ago
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56crosley 4 months ago in playlist music
I GOT THIS SONG FROM CRY BABY XP
MrAkro5000 5 months ago
Disney's Cars didn't send me here....Clue did. :D
ZeGermanGirl 5 months ago 2
Who else misses sax solos in music?
TheMRMSFT 6 months ago
JIMMY KEYES IS MY UNCLE MISS HIM
bishopcma 6 months ago
@bishopcma omg really he is my fav... write me!!!
TheMegachacha123 4 months ago
Muy bueno
1998mauro 6 months ago
thumbs up if you don't give a fuck to any stupid movie or tv show and you are here just because you love this song.
car7000 7 months ago 48
Thumbs up if California Raisins brought you here
SongsJerome 7 months ago
I love this song:) Makes me want to get up and spin around in my room:)
FerrinDear 7 months ago
Man I go nuts for songs like this
KalSerta 7 months ago
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ImColty 7 months ago
So catchy. Pop songs need to start saying "sh-boom" or "ding-dongy-ding-dong" again.
2ndOfficerCHL 7 months ago 2
Questo è il primo disco che annuncia la nuova musica del rock'n'roll a cui seguiranno, per il suo successo, numerose altre sue versioni. Viva il rock'n'roll!
bertodbertod 7 months ago
@TheRedDynasty Ha...gotta love you Canadians. Such peaceful people. You're right, our relationship is strong, and always will be strong. My comment was to represent hatred towards the little twat that talked back to my comment. Not you, as far as i'm concerned, you and I have nothing further to talk about. So don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Cannabis919 8 months ago
Cars did not bring me here! :D
RockyBalboa211 8 months ago
awesome of course
kitfam7 8 months ago
they took a great song and made it better
Flaaatt 8 months ago
Favorite part of Cars movie, when the city is full of light and they are dancing on this song ! Awwe
Vinconization 8 months ago
I wish that I was a Hollywood Knight now :( I miss Tubby's
HunterH33 9 months ago
This is the first time I've heard this song and omg I love it!!
wewillbugyou 9 months ago
Clue.....
violentjsgurl 9 months ago 2
I ♥ this song
betolalocompany 9 months ago 2
I personally like the crew cut's version better.
frederikcreemers 10 months ago
@frederikcreemers it is a tad better !
the Crew Cuts are Canadian !
northlanderdude 10 months ago
@northlanderdude The Crew Cut's version was terrible you tool. This is an AMERICAN classic. Fuck canada.
Cannabis919 8 months ago
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northlanderdude 8 months ago
@northlanderdude No, you assume I think i'm better than you. As do all foreigner's like you. THAT'S why you hate us. When in reality you know nothing about us. I really couldn't care less though, hate me or don't. The point is, it's an American classic song. The canadian version sounded like it was recorded at a bar at midnight. Fuck you, fuck canada, and fuck the crew cuts. Welcome to American hospitality, chump.
Cannabis919 8 months ago
@Cannabis919 yeeeee
moparcar100 8 months ago
@moparcar100 Haha.
Cannabis919 8 months ago
@Cannabis919 yeeeee
moparcar100 8 months ago
Actually it was Patrick Swayze's Roadhouse that brought me here. The "bad guy" plays this in his car while driving without due care and attention/dangerously
LukeSkyscraper 10 months ago
Why can't music be good like this anymore???
MRSJACUTZ 10 months ago
That's a very interesting perspective on the issue. My question would be, did the
black writers get thies fair share of royalties, or were they somehow screwed
along the way?
billchew450 10 months ago
i like the cover by the crew cuts a bit more
FatBoySlim698 11 months ago
CARS !
KasnarD 11 months ago 2
Calling this a video is like calling a YTMND page a video.
dynelol 11 months ago
Found this from watching Cars and not ashamed in the slightest, great film and more importantly, brilliant song!
Cenotaff 11 months ago
The best Doo Wop ever.
Legba85 11 months ago 2
5 people are hearing impaired
littleliongirl16 11 months ago 8
i totally got this from Cars and i love every second of it!
littleliongirl16 11 months ago
best sax i ever had :-)
kissthesky711 11 months ago
I like this version of the song best.
TJCATLOVER 11 months ago
dang why the heck was i born in the 90s
megagamer44 1 year ago 113
@megagamer44 lol um you do realize that this song is from the 50s not the 90s right? :)
littleliongirl16 11 months ago
@littleliongirl16 yeah i do i was wishing to be born in the 40s so i could experiece that first hand
megagamer44 11 months ago
@megagamer44 i second this motion lol
littleliongirl16 11 months ago
@megagamer44 so you could listen to all of the best of the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70, 80s, 90's, 0's and 10's on youtube :)
CJDiggs 8 months ago
LOL
jwhyhalo456 1 year ago
Thumbs up if loving good music brought you here....and not some movie or video game.
EmeraldFlowsion62 1 year ago 4
Thumbs up if Disney Pixar's Cars brought you here
sturminator1000 1 year ago 63
@sturminator1000 Lol it sure did... I heard this watching Cars and I played it back, I got up dancing with my kids to this song...
BlaqPrincess 1 year ago 2
@sturminator1000 cars did,but i didnt know the name so my dad told me and here i am :D
gryphonryder95 10 months ago
@sturminator1000
Actually, Cars has the version recorded by the Crew Cuts.
twinkie57401 10 months ago
@twinkie57401 actually they have The Chords in the movie Cars !
the song you are hearing now is in Cars !
northlanderdude 10 months ago in playlist Keenan
@northlanderdude
I just listened to the soundtrack again. I think for the movie, they had their own slightly different version recorded, just like all the others on the official soundtrack. Great music though!
twinkie57401 10 months ago
@sturminator1000 wait... that movie has this song on it???????? im going to have to wacth that movie again.
korvettemaster 8 months ago
@korvettemaster Cars
xtubejr 8 months ago
@korvettemaster yea i wacthed it, hadent noticed. guess ive haerd that song too much before ive seen the movie.
korvettemaster 8 months ago
@sturminator1000 Actually, I learned about this song from the version done by the "Crew Cuts" (which is not quite as good as this one, but still wonderful), that was used in "Clue: The Movie" in possibly the most awkward scene of the movie.
Drumroll418 7 months ago
thumbs up if Cry Baby brought you
MrKitkatinahat 1 year ago
if you know a song from the 50's/60's from a white band chances are they covered that same song from a black band. u know damn well white people couldnt make good music with such soul back then did ya?? lol
dionco92 1 year ago
5 peoples lives will never be a dream
garfield7257 1 year ago 2
I don't understand the dislikes posted.
retawdee 1 year ago
I'm not sure why people on the comment section are fighten about new music when in classics like this we have to get use to it...i mean we wouldnt have a GRIP of classics if we didnt accept new style...but in my perspective,music has been turned into nuttin but sex,money,and drugs...and that is NOT the only principle of what true music is...stop making these "oh jb sucks cuz he can never be this good" comments and post one that has a good explanation like mine does...
JonJon4563 1 year ago
Justine Beiber cries at night because he'll NEVER be anywhere CLOSE to being this good. Ever.
1obxeclipsedriver 1 year ago
SO much better than the crew-cuts!!
mariahbowles6 1 year ago 6
@mariahbowles6 cannot agree with you more i listened to both songs in my rock and roll history class today and its been stuck in my head ever since lol im sure it was quite a sight to see a big football player in the weight room singing sha boom hahaha
Masenp78 1 year ago 2
I love this kind of music because back when this style was new, these people HAD to be good singers otherwise no one would listen to them. They couldn't doctor the music in a studio to make it sound better, they had to get it right. I'm 14, and I live for this music. It always makes my day and it makes me smile no matter what. I don't care if people my age think I'm lame, THIS is what real music is supposed to sound like.
horsegal10 1 year ago 3
@horsegal10
Ok I'm not sure where you live but chances are there is a non for profit radio station or a college radio station near you where you can hear a variety of new music that doesn't suck. Support it and quit assuming the past is the only bastion of great music because if your basing today's music on the mainstream then of course its mostly going to suck.
rykumitsui 1 year ago
@horsegal10
Also if you listen to internet radio stations go listen to WLNG because guess what? They play this song and more. Best damned oldies station out there IMO.
rykumitsui 1 year ago
@horsegal10 You are not " lame ", to use that word.
You appreciate good music, REAL music. And your point is very valid. This is not techno-driven, syntho-driven, computer-enhanced drek. Performers HAD to be performers and SING, not merely act as vocal back-drop to syntho, bass & percussion tracks that had already been laid down. Sort-of musical paint-by-numbers ( sing-by-numbers. ) Just the fact that someone of your age ( no condescension intended ) likes REAL music, tells me there's hope.
Mr111810 1 year ago 3
Not autotuned???
GoldyVids 1 year ago
¡ Qué SAXO !
jafigueroa41 1 year ago
i was born too late. OMG i hate bing surrounded by todays music when i have a passion for music from the 50's. I may only be 13, but i think i know good music when i hear it and this fits the bill
Catilac65 1 year ago 3
@Catilac65 But! Being alive now you have the advantage of having all that music recorded and available (not to mention, instantly), plus everything that music has influenced throughout the years, plus modern artists that employ styles closer to this kind of music.
kignofpei 1 year ago
@kignofpei Precisely - the whole piece of the pie - and as you've alluded, we get to see the evolution and progression of music because we have the history, in tact, specifically on YouTube. So, don't hate, appreciate.
CheckMate657879 1 year ago
jimmy keyes deep voice is epic
lol
DRUMM3RBOY2K8 1 year ago
I like the music/beat of this version better, but I think the Crew Cuts sang it better imo. There were too many times in this where they just sang the same note. Was a little annoying, almost like they were just yelling.
lovesthebass 1 year ago
THE CHORDS WERE THE FIRST AND ORIGINAL VERSION. who were The Crew Cut? they're just a copy I don't even feel it at all-no fast uptempo!!!!! I very very much love the part At 1:22 like it takes me back to those good old days, just love it.
THE CHORDS BEST 4EVER.
555aahouse1 1 year ago
@555aahouse1 Since YOU TUBE my life is a little brighter because I found that there are 1000's like myself that KNOW THE TRUTH about ORIGINAL RECORDS,,GROUPS etc etc. However on the other hand whenever people try to tell me that R&R came from Africa I have to remind them that they didn't bring a GUITAR with them on them ships. They listened to the original country music on stations like WSM and then did it THEIR WAY.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 11 months ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 hahahahha you made me laughed with your nonsense answer!! excuse me, I am not being disrespectful here but not necessarily they would have to bring guitars with them. " what this has to do with ships,slavery, guitars ?????? its just in thier blood/roots their natural origins. like caribean music, salsa music, tropical music have those "African Rhythms" come on senor!
555aahouse1 10 months ago
@555aahouse1 I love R&B music and the original beginnings of R&R,,but I don't try to kid myself about where things came from. Blacks in the south "HAD TO" listen to the only music that was "on the air" in those days and sing the hymns that were in "english" not their native languages (notice I said languages,,because there were many) The hymns in the black churches were the same hymns as the white churches,,but the blacks put more bounce to the ounce in their versions,,making church fun.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 10 months ago
DeportAnchorBabies...I don't think my lot were starved...
irishshako 1 year ago
billchew450..yes it's the original.so what..the Crew Cuts version was IMO great.
Don't bring the racist card in FFS..if it was'nt for slavery you'd have no SAMBO music.
irishshako 1 year ago
@irishshako lol thats like saying if the British didnt starve you micks to death, there wouldnt be any irish accomplishments in the U.S.....love your logic
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
The songs now are dull songs these no love or dedication in the songs why was born in this generation i wanna be back there...
AlienTekProductions 1 year ago 2
@AlienTekProductions SAME!
RuyGuyDog 1 year ago
The Crew-Cuts version absolutely sucks- the 50's cover artists should be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of societal racism at the expense of these wonderful talented artists.
billchew450 1 year ago
@billchew450 its the origional how can you say it sux
brendal797 1 year ago
@billchew450 its the origional how can you say it sux
brendal797 1 year ago
@billchew450 I know you mean well,,and I sometimes feel the same way,,however remember this,,the white cover groups brought that music to the fore,,and also the black writers of many of those songs got big royality checks,,,and some still do. I was in radio all those years "in the beginning" and saw many things. I was never what you call a BIG ELVIS FAN but him and his bunch,,brought rock right in the front door,,intead of the backdoor.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 10 months ago
this is good, clean, fun, and real music, pure and simple. and let's not forget these guys actually had talent!
7zilla7 1 year ago
This is absolute true acapella...well...without the instruments and stuff...just the voices... :D
savedbygrace430 1 year ago
im 15 i go to a party they play new music kids stand around, then once i went to a 'weird' girls girls house we played this type of music we couldnt resist eachother haha goes to show the difference in music
bucsbaseball100 1 year ago
Note : I'm a music historian and I like The Platters , just as much as I like The Skyliners . I like Count Basie, just as I like Glenn Miller or Benny Goodman. This isn't a hate issue here, just a historical one between me and whoever this "DeportAnchorBabies" is , but now it's over. Barbershop is European by origin, and so is what would later become known as "rapping", originally called "Calling" minus the b/s profanity. That wraps it up for me.
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 "Rapping can be traced back to its African roots. Centuries before hip hop music existed, the griots of West Africa were delivering stories rhythmically, over drums and sparse instrumentation. Such connections have been acknowledged by many modern artists, modern day "griots", spoken word artists, mainstream news sources, and academics"
Has nothing to do with Europeans, sorry
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 @MrRJDB1969 Your a "music historian"?Well you arent a good one, Thats for sure lol
Barbershop quartets have their orgins within the black american community.Wether you want to acknowledge this or not....i could care less.
Truth hurts
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 All the revisionist crap you churn out will not eliminate the fact that this country's musical heritage lie,primarily, within the Black community ;)
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
"barbershop quartets" didnt exist when slavery was around.It came after that
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
and this was not on fallout new vegas because!!!??????
TheSonOfMe 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
best version hands down.
alexalot23 1 year ago
The best cruising song on a hot summer night in 1954 convert with the top down! It didn't matter if it was the Chords or the Crew Cuts
MrZip61 1 year ago
Recorded on March 15, 1954 (and credited to the five men pictured above), and originally released on Atlantic's "Cat" label. By the end of June 1954, the song became a "Top Five" hit nationally, which led Mercury records to issue a "cover" version by The Crew Cuts, a white vocal group from Canada; their "softer" version {"Sh-Boom, Sh-Boom/Ya-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.."} was somewhat blander...AND more popular, becoming the #1 song on the charts that August.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Dude.. I thought it was a white group that sung this song! Maaaan, it seems Rock&Roll... DooWop, and anything called..(MUSIC), was all created by Black people!
Are maan, well the blacks of today dont make Real Music anymore... Pity, it was good in those days, whether they were persecuted or not!
yaniska100 1 year ago
@yaniska100 : How very little you know about recorded or written music to say something off the wall like "anything called music was all created by black people". Written music was started in Europe, by or just before Mozart, Beethoven, etc. , Barbershop harmonizing began in white barbershops at a time when there were no black barbershops. The instruments, such as the saxophone for example, were created by white men. Rock N Roll is Country & Western mixed with Rhythm & Blues. Also............
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 I dont think so.Look up "Barbershop quartets".African Americans are credited for starting "Barbershop harmonizing".
"The first uses of the term were associated with African Americans. Henry notes that "The Mills Brothers learned to harmonize in their father's barber shop in Piqua, Ohio. Several other well-known African American gospel quartets were founded in neighborhood barber shops, among them the New Orleans Humming Four, the Southern Stars and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartette."
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@DeportAnchorBabies : Do you really think "Barbershop" singing began in the 1940's by black people ? Funny, since "Barbershop" singing began in Europe at a time when African's, in Africa, had no idea what vocal harmonizing even was and it's truly doubtful, if later in the 1860's, in The United States , while 98% of American "Blacks" were slaves, that they actually owned barbershops of their own, to be able to "create" barbershop singing. No, I don't need to read some bogus blog. Funny.
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 I didnt say it started in the 40's. I know it goes back further than that, but blacks DID start it. Thats an unassailable fact thats well documented."Barbershop" singing in Europe, is not "Barbershop" singing, as America would know it.DiD Europeans vocalize? Yes, but not in the American way.Even today, in blacks churches this tradition is alive
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 BTW that information is not from some "bogus blog" but an article
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 So what if whites created the instruments?Who created the music on the instruments? Blues,Ragtime,Jazz,rock,etc ? Blacks did.
Thats like the inventor of the hammer,wrench, or some other tool , claiming the empire state building just because his tools were used to build it lol.
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@yaniska100 : Cont: who do you think wrote and arranged the music that made The Platters, The Coasters, The Drifters, The Chiffons, etc. etc. so popular...people like Buck Ram, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller etc. One of the pioneer jazz vocal groups from the 1920's The Rhythm Boys , which included Bing Crosby pre-date The Ink Spots & The Mills Brothers by a number of years. Lastly, today's "rapping" is nothing more than Country Square Dance "Calling" with profanity thrown in. Learn.
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 (continued) Barbershop harmonies remain in evidence in the a cappella music of the black church. The popular, Christian a cappella group Take 6[5] started in 1980 as The Gentleman's Estate Quartet with the tight, four-part harmony by which barbershop music is known. Early on, the quartet added a fifth harmonic line, but the group's pedigree, like barbershop music, is traceable directly to the black church—and the jazzy renditions of artists like the Mills Brothers, as well.[6][7]
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@DeportAnchorBabies : Again, I'm having to teach you !! I see you've hitting the blogs, but I'll do this anyway. You mention "the black church" and where do you suppose "the blacks" learned Christianity , since Christianity wasn't a religion of the Africans back then ? The white people. Since Africa, at the time of slavery, didn't have church building's, Christian hymnals, or even know what a rhyme was, or have written music, but in Europe they did for generations ???
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 (continued) came from African Americans. One of the reasons country music was created by African-Americans, as well as European-Americans, is because blacks and whites in rural communities in the south often worked and played together
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 You are delusional lollol sorry but im not posting information from blogs.Im posting CREDIBLE info.ARTICLES by music historians.What are you doing?Throwing baseless claims out with no proof whats-so - ever.Im doing more than you are doing.
BTW, Christianity was in Africa before it was ever in Europe.It was in Ethiopia centuries before it was even in Europe, so christianity is hardly a "white" religion to begin with
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 Barbershop quartets is more than simply "harmonizing" btw.Look, im posting credible information that says that that tradition has its orgins within the Black american community,and what are you doing?Rambling on and on with no proof of your claims at all.Next thing you are going to tell me is that whites invented Doo Wop music lmao
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 The "Rhythm Boys" started just 3 years before the Mills Brothers.Also, one of Bing's major influences was Louis armstrong ( if you want to play who influenced who game)
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@DeportAnchorBabies : Alright, pal, this is it for me, but Louis Armstrong didn't harmonize vocally with any group and was mainly a trumpet player. Since written music & arrangements , musical instruments, or even the knowledge of how to read sheet music, was greatly unavailable for early black Americans, it's impossible for the blacks to have taught the whites. Jazz aka Jass singing came about , when a black singer couldn't remember the actual lyrics to a song, typically by a white composer.
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 Ofcourse louis didnt harmonize with a group.But he was a major influence to bing nonetheless.And the fact that the rhythm boys predate the Mills Brothers by 3 years, and the ink spots by a considerable number of years, means nothing.That just simply means that they happened to come out before.Dosent mean that they originated their style of music for that matter.
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 It was the creos in Louisiana who taught the Blacks music notation,NOT the whites btw
Btw there were black musicians all throughout the duration of slavery.Ever heard of "blind tom" the sevant,slave pianist?Probably not
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 Sorry but todays rapping derives, in part, from call and response tradition within AA community, not "country square dance calling" as you put it.
Country is influenced by blues though.
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@DeportAnchorBabies : B/s, again you are wrong historically. In Country Square Dance, which has been around for decades and dates back to Europe with it's origins, The MC (Master of Ceremonies) calls out Rhyming sentences in a set cadence or rhythm and the dancers follow his direction. This isn't "call & response" for nobody's actually answering anyone. The MC is "calling", what would MUCH later be changed to "rapping" . Slaves learned much from what they saw "Whitey" doing .
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 In West Africa, Griots (story tellers) have been around for centuries.Thats where rapping orgins lie, look it up "pal". it has nothing to do with Europeans
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@DeportAnchorBabies : Cont : When did you ever hear a true "blues" singer speak an entire song at a fast tempo in rhyming sentences ? Country & Western gets it's influence from Europe, mainly from Ireland, where both slow ballads & uptempo songs were a tradition and spread to The United States and the Square Dance , also from Europe, goes back beyond the 17th century. African music, in Africa, did not rhyme and men & women did not dance "together", however, in Europe they did.
MrRJDB1969 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 Country music was definitely,in part, influenced by blacks.Sorry bud
"Often, when many people think or hear country music, they think of it as a creation of European-Americans. However, a great deal of style—and of course, the banjo, a major instrument in most early American folk songs—
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
@MrRJDB1969 There were plenty of blacks in the Appalachian area during country's early years. There is a documentary here on youtube that examines the black influence in country music.
DeportAnchorBabies 1 year ago
I can't listen to this song without smiling... yay
coldblooded666 1 year ago
This is the first record I bought, I was 11! Is this music great, or what! So happy to have grown up in the 50's! Fabulous Music, Cool Cars and Hot Chicks! Crusin' yhe Drive-ins every Friday and Saturday nite, what great memories!
spikebogey 1 year ago
I wish I was alive during this Era of music -_-
It's so indescribeable.
Zolofgonnakillallya 1 year ago
So catchy..
Steppenwulf79 1 year ago
thumbs up if 1000 ways to die commercial brought you here
GamingGuru21 1 year ago 3
Thumbs up if you had to play this song again
countryrules64 1 year ago 3
i should find out what notes are in the saxophone part so i can play it. Then the ladies wouldlnt be able to resist!
slimmyfeet 1 year ago
the perpect 50's song?sha-boom!
vacguy99 1 year ago
Life could've been a dream for the black doo wop groups if they were treated equal in the 50's.
Black groups were the best.... The originals.
555aahouse1 1 year ago 19
@555aahouse1 Get over your white guilt already. It's dolts like you who gave us the first colored occupant of the White House, i.e., The Red Herring of the United States.
ourcynic 1 year ago 2
@ourcynic LOL what guilt? he's just telling it how it is. Black doo wop groups were discriminated against..and..they were the best...simple as that
Gotta love how you racist whites like to call non racist whites "liberals" and talk about their supposed "white guilt" when they dont conform to your racist views
BlacknesUnforgivable 1 year ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable "...you racist whites..."? I don't dislike you because you're black. I dislike you because you're a hypocritical jackass. The race card has gotten very boring. Know what's ironic? The so-called white "liberals" that you speak of are the most vile racists I've ever met, and throw the "n" word around all day long. I know you libs wish this weren't true, but, conservative Republicans are responsible for every piece of civil rights legislation that's ever been passed. Check it
ourcynic 1 year ago
@ourcynic Race card? Whites have been playing the "race card" for decades. And sorry but the Republican part of post 60's have nothing to do with the repub's of today. All of those racist dixie crats are now in the republican party.
BlacknesUnforgivable 1 year ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable Well, look. I could argue with you ad nauseum, but, I'd rather just enjoy the music I came here to listen to. As the highest rated comment says, "real music", unlike the ghetto dreck that's being pumped out nowadays.
ourcynic 1 year ago
@ourcynic Yep YOU GOT IT. The DEMOCRACTS fought against racial equality. How did it get twisted backwards??
THEMOJOMANsince1959 11 months ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Because all those Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms switched right into the Republican Party and they were welcomed with open arms. Their bigoted beliefs corresponded more with the Republicans than the Democrats and that hasn't changed in 45 years. Look up "the Southern Strategy" and its creator Richard Nixon if you want more evidence of how things got "twisted backwards." You'll be very enlightened.
jackiechampion 11 months ago
Favorite track on Cars. Love this song. :0)
mentalistcrazy09 1 year ago