The pillar on which modern rock, R&B, and pop music were built on, Doo-Wop reached its peak success in the early 1960s. Originating among African-American youths during the 1940s in cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, and D.C, Doo-Wop music features vocal group harmony that carries an engaging melodic line to a simple beat with little or no instrumentation. Lyrics are simple, usually about love, sung by a lead vocal over background vocals of repeated nonsense, hence the name "doo-wop." Teenagers in poor neighborhoods (usually African and Italian Americans) who couldn't afford instruments would practice on street corners and perform at school dances and other special occasions. Record labels at the time deemed Doo-Wop music "dangerous to America's youth" due to the popularity of the music successfully mixing blacks and whites in a segregated1950s America. By 1954, there was no stopping Doo-Wops momentum and in 1956, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers performed their hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" (the most 1950s song ever) to a national audience on the Frankie Laine Show. Laine referred to it as "rock and roll" and the genre was here to stay. Doo-wop's influence continued in soul, pop, and rock groups of the 1960s all the way to today, influencing artists like James Brown, the Beach Boys, Billy Joel, and Bruno Mars. With a hand in influencing so many genres of music, doo-wop should always be remembered as a cornerstone of a collective American music scene, much like the blend of a loaf of bread with roast beef, mozzarella, and balsamic.
Doo-Wop: Roast Beef, Mozzarella, Broccoli Rabe, Balsamic Glaze
I've wrote about the Taliercio's roast beef many times, and I'll do it again, it's incredible. The broccoli rabe kind of takes some taste away from the mozzarella (which there could have been more of). It doesn't take away anything, this is still a solid sandwich. Thanks to Taliercio's I've had more broccoli rabe this year than my previous 30 years, and I don't hate it. But the highlight of this sandwich to me was the juices of the roast beef mixing with the balsamic glaze soaking in the signature semolina bread. A heavenly, summer combo that makes me think of backyard dinners at my parents' house. If you aren't dunking your bread in sauce, what are you even doing? This sandwich did the dunking for me and gave me a roast beef meal in between.
Overall: 7.6/10
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