Too Late to Be Good: Vocal Harmony Vanguard/ Var - Too Late To Be Good - Vocal Harmony Vanguard

Vocal group harmony enjoyed it's golden years from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s when groups such as the Platters, the Drifters and the 4 Seasons regularly topped the national Billboard Pop and R&B Charts, but the tradition goes back much further than that, right back to the dawn of recorded sound and beyond in fact. This CD, however, concentrates on the post-war rise of the vocal ensemble in a variety of different settings - quartets, quintets, ensemble jive and jazz groups, acapella harmony units and big band vocal groups - but all architects of the modern style that would come to be known, for better or worse, as Doo Wop.