CD-2- VA - Fine Gals, Fast Woman and Wailin Daddies: The First of Part Records Rakin' 'n' Scrapin'

Rakin' 'n' Scrapin'

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Vocal group harmony enjoyed its golden years from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s when groups such as The Platters

CD-2- VA - Fine Gals, Fast Woman and Wailin Daddies: The First of Part Records Rakin' 'n' Scrapin'The Jump Blues recording artists of the 1940s mainly wrote or at least adapted from older sources their own material, but at the dawn of the 1950s a new entity emerged; that of the professional R&B songwriter. Many of the first wave of this new phenomenon were African Americans with a background in performing or A&R work in black music, but over in Los Angeles a couple of white, middle class, teenage boys had hooked up to write their own, remarkably