Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
Episode: Doo Wop Roots with Harvey Holiday
Description: This week, a Philly legend, the great Harvey Holiday joins the Imbalanced Boys as they dig into how vocal groups, singing together, changed in the early decades of Rock n' Roll. As popular music morphed from the '40s into the '50s, there was a change in tone, and approach. Young kids, singing together, unaccompanied, began to gain popularity. A&R guys were on the lookout in subways, bathrooms and ON STREET CORNERS!Now retired, Harvey offers his views as someone who experienced it as a kid, became a part of it, and, of course, played...