All-white keikogi and Hakama are also used in various dōjo and / or on special occasions such as public demonstrations or competitions.

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To accompany the collection Lover used All-white Vans hi-tops and Authentic Vans in white.

The Penguins were one of a number of doo-wop groups of the period named after birds ( such as The Orioles, The Flamingos, and The Crows ).

The song had evolved through several Los Angeles area groups, and was based on the " Blue Moon " chord changes that were so popular with many doo-wop groups.

In 1954 doo-wop groups played a significant role in ushering in the rock and roll era when two big rhythm and blues hits by vocal harmony groups, " Gee " by The Crows and " Sh-Boom " by The Chords crossed over onto the pop music charts.

Quickly other R & B vocal groups entered the pop charts, particularly in 1955, which saw such cross-over doowop hits as " Sincerely " by The Moonglows, " Earth Angel " by The Penguins, and " Only You " by The Platters and The Turbans ' " When You Dance " became the first hit to use the " doo-wop " syllables.

In the early development of doo-wop, especially in U. S. East Coast cities, Puerto Ricans were the lead singers in some groups with black and white members ; such groups included The Crests, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Five Discs and the Tune Weavers.

1958 also saw the rise of Italian American doo-wop groups.

By the late 1950s, Italian street corner doo-wop groups were seen in urban cities like New York, especially the Bronx and Brooklyn.

Other important groups including The Coasters, The Drifters, The Midnighters, and The Platters, helped link the doo-wop style back into the mainstream and the future sound of soul music.

These programs brought back together, live on stage, some of the better known doo-wop groups of the past.

Parliament is a funk / R & B band whose influences are the funky side of Hendrix and Sly Stone, Motown soul groups turned funk groups like the Temptations, the political songs of the Impressions, Rufus Thomas ' southern funk, doo-wop groups like the Coasters for the humour and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers.

Before entering Cardozo High School and shortly after the Gay family relocated to D. C .' s Deanwood neighborhood in northeastern Washington, he had joined several doo-wop groups in the D. C. area, including the Dippers, which featured his friend Johnny Stewart, brother of R & B singer Billy Stewart.

His first major musical influences came in the form of doo-wop groups such as The Moonglows and The Capris.

Sam recorded " Nitey-Nite "/" Caveman Rock " in 1954 with the doo-wop group The Majestics, and later sang with the gospel groups The Gales and The Mellonaires.

One of Sylvester's high school musical groups was a doo-wop act called The Viscaynes, in which he and a Filipino teenager were the only non-white members.

At an early age, he began organizing his neighborhood friends into street corner doo-wop groups and was performing with The McCrea Gospel Singers at 16.

Richard Berry ( April 11, 1935 – January 23, 1997 ) was an African American singer, songwriter and musician, who performed with many Los Angeles doo-wop and close harmony groups in the 1950s, including The Flairs and The Robins.

He began singing and playing in local doo-wop groups, recording with a number of them including The Penguins, The Cadets and the Chimes, the Crowns, the Five Hearts, the Hunters, the Rams, the Whips, and the Dreamers, an otherwise all-female quartet from Fremont High.

That same year, Goldmine magazine named them as one of the twenty greatest doo-wop groups of all time.

Growing up and going to school with both black and white friends, singing in doo-wop groups and playing sports, Avakian experienced up close and personal the prevailing segregation and racism in society and the ways it affected his black friends.

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

They were the first doo-wop group to record for Dootone Records.

The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, " Earth Angel ( Will You Be Mine )", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts.

As to the group's songwriting, very few of their early compositions were based on conventional blues and doo-wop chord changes.

The Rubettes were an English pop band assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, then the head of A & R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts.

The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand.

When Revilot declared bankruptcy the Parliaments were sold to Atlantic Records, and Clinton abandoned doo-wop to avoid working for Atlantic.

One of these was The Viscaynes, a doo-wop group in which Sylvester and his Filipino friend, Frank Arelano, were the only non-white members.

The Moonglows were an American R & B and doo-wop group based in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Ink Spots were a vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop.

The Orioles were a successful and influential American R & B group of the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal bands who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound.

The Turbans were an African American doo-wop group, who formed in Philadelphia in 1953.

Many of the Boogaloo musicians report that they were also deeply influenced by the R & B, jazz and doo-wop bands of that era.

With her brassy and gospel-reared alto vocals, Martha Reeves helped Martha and the Vandellas ascend from background singers with early songs such as " Come and Get These Memories " and "( Love Is Like a ) Heat Wave " distinguishing the group from contemporaries and label mates The Marvelettes and The Supremes, who were more influenced by doo-wop.

Though the group's early recordings under their different monikers were doo-wop oriented, the majority of songs released under the Vandellas ' name produced a rougher, soulful sound with powerful musical backing from The Funk Brothers.

In late 2008, a doo-wop band simply called the Doo Wops were formed in Brentwood, TN.

The Regents were an American doo-wop vocal group from New York, operating in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The Rivingtons were a 1960s doo-wop group.

The Marcels were an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll.