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The Doo Wop sound
also came from the Black Church vocal quartets
Doo Wop / The Online Roots of Rock
This Is Gospel: Great Gospel Quartets CD
This Is Gospel: Great Gospel Quartets CD Album
Early Gospel quartets with Doo Wopisms
Then you have the Swan Silvertones
w/ Claude Jeter who put falsetto on the map and pioneered the type of lighter harmony singing that went to to Doo Wop->Soul (Chicago style) and then eventually to Reggae Harmony
The Bluegrass Special | February 2009 | The Gospel Set: Reverend Claude Jeter
http://www.thesoulbasement.com/Site/Falsetto.html
Wow. Knowledge!! I see all the connections and lineage of the classic gospel Quartets—>Doo Wop—->Doo Wop Soul. It’s widely believed that another motivation for Doo Wop(at least in the northern cities) was the lack of instruments by the youngsters singing on the street corners and having to improvise using the voice as an instrument. But your post goes waaaaaay more in depth about who specifically laid the groundwork for that sound. The Black Church in the South and those touring groups from way back when really laid that ground work. Then you had Barber shop quarters like the Mills Brothers who also laid the groundwork.
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I’m not old enough to know all the singers/songs posted in here but I bet my parents do 
Anyways, I always remember how one of my favorite r&b groups “Playa” who worked with missy/timbaland/Aaliyah etc.... during the 90s started singing gospel songs church to church kinda like a quartet
But Not exactly cause it’s only 3 of them but you get the idea:
Proves the tradition wasn’t exactly dead by the mid/late 90s at least not in the south but I’m guessing most singing groups by then had went secular and moved to R&b/New Jack swing or just started rapping
Still it should be obvious to anyone who grew up in the church that all popular Black music today originated from the black church in some shape or form
Anyways, I always remember how one of my favorite r&b groups “Playa” who worked with missy/timbaland/Aaliyah etc.... during the 90s started singing gospel songs church to church kinda like a quartet
But Not exactly cause it’s only 3 of them but you get the idea:
Proves the tradition wasn’t exactly dead by the mid/late 90s at least not in the south but I’m guessing most singing groups by then had went secular and moved to R&b/New Jack swing or just started rapping
Still it should be obvious to anyone who grew up in the church that all popular Black music today originated from the black church in some shape or form
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...when you listen to these old gospel groups, it's plain as day where Rock N Roll, Soul music and Doo Wop came from
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Yes! Please feel free!
I changed the title to add women.
And I gotta kick it off with my girls:
I am reading Anthony Heilbut's other book about Gospel music - and it's some crazy "tea" and just some much info about so many of the gospel artist we love -- well our parents and grandparents love.
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ABOUT THE FAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” —Rolling Stone), Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann (“Electric”—Harold Brodkey).
In The Fan Who Knew Too Much, Heilbut writes about art and obsession, from country blues singers and male sopranos to European intellectuals and the originators of radio soap opera—figures transfixed and transformed who helped to change the American cultural landscape.
Heilbut writes about Aretha Franklin, the longest-lasting female star of our time, who changed performing for women of all races. He writes about Aretha’s evolution as a singer and performer (she came out of the tradition of Mahalia Jackson); before Aretha, there were only two blues-singing gospel women—Dinah Washington, who told it like it was, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who specialized, like Aretha, in ambivalence, erotic gospel, and holy blues.
We see the influence of Aretha’s father, C. L. Franklin, famous pastor of Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church. Franklin’s albums preached a theology of liberation and racial pride that sold millions and helped prepare the way for Martin Luther King Jr. Reverend Franklin was considered royalty and, Heilbut writes, it was inevitable that his daughter would become the Queen of Soul.
In “The Children and Their Secret Closet,” Heilbut writes about gays in the Pentecostal church, the black church’s rock and shield for more than a hundred years, its true heroes, and among its most faithful members and vivid celebrants. And he explores, as well, the influential role of gays in the white Pentecostal church.
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He talked about the Davis Sisters. One of the sisters saw her father kill her murder in front of her. The book also talks about the LBGT and the Black church -- and how Mahalia Jackson and everybody else viewed them.
Also, how Prophet Jones got caught at an adult theater in Detriot and how it messed up his career.
The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Prophet Jones
Black/AA Spiritualist Churches and Temples
It's a crazy read -- and it people are offended easy - they need not read it. Cause, Black folks back then did not hold their tongue.