Doo-Wopped, Part 2 -- Garbo

 Currently, my Tuesday posts here at the group blog center on pop culture from roughly 1938 to 1952. This matches the era of my creative history project Kay Kemble: The Lady with the Gold Baton/.

Last week,we began looking at songs which had doo-wop versions done from them, years after the original version. When I think of a classic doo-wop number, "In the Still of the Night" by The Five Satins comes to mind.

In this case, we're just dealing with the title on this one. Neither the melody nor the lyrics match Cole Porter's composition "In the Still of the Night," as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

Let's turn back to looking at tunes completely done over as doo-wop songs. Here we have the Rodgers and Hart classic "Where or When," as sung by Barbara Cook.

And then of course we've got to let Frank Sinatra sing it.

Ready for a cross between doo-wop and the kind of syncopated pop done by groups like The Crewcuts? Then check out Dion and the Belmonts doing their take on "Where or When."

There was once  a doo-wop song about doo-wop songs, of course. To finish for today, here's a Japanese retro music group doing a Sha Na Na thing as they perform Barry Mann's "Who Put the Bomp."