Doo Wop

This compilation rates a slightly qualified rave. As far as it goes it is excellent in all that it offers -- the sound is gorgeous, in killer fidelity, and it couldn't be too much more generous, with 28 tracks. On the other hand, there isn't a single word of annotation anywhere -- and as a rule that would be a problem, but in this case the listening is such an unbridled pleasure that it's just possible to ignore that trangression, up to a point. For the uninitiated, Winley Records, founded by Paul Winley and best known today as a pioneering hip-hop label starting in the late '70s, began life in the mid-'50s as an R&B label. They competed with the likes of Atlantic, Rama, Gee, etc., and had the talent to back up those ambitions, including the Paragons, the Jesters, Little Anthony & the Duponts, and the Quinns. Some of those names don't mean too much to anyone not familiar with early rock & roll (especially from New York), but they count a lot to the audience at which this co