This week’s #TuneTuesday theme is #IsThisEmo - songs expressing, or making you feel sad emotions. A few random tunes:

The Yardbirds: Still I'm Sad (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Cih1r2hEY

Betty Harris: What A Sad Feeling (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XkhWCvQplg

Lee Lamont: The Crying Man (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVSPiNXa_U0

The Skyliners: Tell Me (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkW0omeRQY

O. V. Wright: Motherless Child (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUM0W1gjPs

#music #yardbirds #bettyharris #leelamont #skyliners #ovwright

I just found out that there's a large new selection of vintage doowop videos available on YouTube. These were filmed at one of the first "revival" shows at the New York Academy of Music in 1970.

The technical quality is not great, as there was only one camera, and much of the footage is very grainy. But then again, where else you can see many of these groups performing with the original or nearly original line-up, with proper orchestral backing, and with the original doowop era still a fairly recent memory?

My #SaturdayOnStage pick for today is a perfomance by the Skyliners, with only Jackie Taylor missing from the original line-up of the group. They start off with their version of "Pennies from Heaven", which I have never really cared for, but get to the good stuff at around three minutes with "This I Swear", one of my all-time favorite doowop ballads. Jimmy Beaumont's vocals are just about as incredible as they had been on the original record 11 years earlier.

The Skyliners: Pennies From Heaven / This I Swear / Lonely Way / Since I Don't Have You (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpxqISwf7rY

#music #doowop #Skyliners #JimmyBeaumont #JanetVogelRapp #ThisISwear #SinceIDontHaveYou

THE SKYLINERS
"SINCE I DON'T HAVE YOU"

The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You
from The Rebellious Jukebox Plays Doo​-​Wop Daddies volume 2 The Aching Ballads by Fidelity Masters

https://fidelitymasters.bandcamp.com/track/since-i-dont-have-you

"Since I Don't Have You" by The Skyliners, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, vocal group, reached No. 12 on the Billboard pop chart and remained on the Top 40 for ten weeks. It was the group's biggest hit.

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#1950smusic #1950svocalgroups #bandcamp #musicnews #oldies #oldiesbutgoodies #oldiesrock #pittsburgh #pittsburghmusic #pittsburghvocalgroups #rockoldies #sinceidonthaveyou #skyliners #theskyliners #vocalgroups

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