[Ads-l] Antedating of "Doo-Wop"

[Shapiro, Fred]

doo-wop (OED 1969)

1967 Hit Parader May 41 (Internet Archive)

Those doo-wop words came from skat singing — from the jazz era.

Fred Shapiro

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