Best of Doo Wop Ballads [Audio CD] Dion & the Belmonts; The Skyliners; The Five Satins; The Jive Five; The Cadillacs; The Dells; The Blue Jays; The Moonglows; The Velvetones and Harvey & The Moonglows

Amazon.com This exemplary collection is full of music as ravishing as In the Wee Small Hours or Kind of Blue. Mixing radio staples (the Flamingos' definitive version of "I Only Have Eyes for You") with less-heard classics (the Cadillacs' "Gloria," the Velvetones' "Glory of Love"), Doo Wop Ballads brings the sound of the street corner home to the quiet corners of romance. Essential to the development of later decades' soul music, the sounds herein are also a reminder that these '50s teenagers and young adults indeed laid a claim on our hearts as unyielding as those of Frank or Miles. --Rickey Wright