Example sentences for: doo-wop

How can you use “doo-wop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Simon's score, a combination of salsa and '50s doo-wop, is singled out for praise.

  • As that girl group used to say in the famous doo-wop song: It's gonna take a miracle, yes, it's gonna take a miracle."

  • I plugged (!) the family radio into the wall by my bed, turned it low and listened past my bedtime to the real thing, LaVerne Baker, Little Richard, the Cadillacs, the Coasters--just about every black group, every doo-wop group around, plus Dion and the Belmonts (fellow Bronxites).

  • Rhythm 'n' blues (the music of the black South) and other manifestations of the black "sound," like urban doo-wop, came to the attention of whites--like the record mogul Ahmet Ertegun in Washington, the songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (who wrote "Hound Dog" and "Kansas City") in Los Angeles, DJ Alan Freed in Cleveland, and Elvis Presley in Memphis, who was totally immersed in black music almost by accident.

  • A few years ago, I was driving around New York with Paul Simon for a BBC-TV film, when the car went over a pothole and the radio jumped from some tasteful doo-wop on WCBS-FM to a rap station: "This," said Simon sadly, "is the perfect soundtrack for an age of instant gratification."


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