Boss-Tones

doo wop

The Bosstones were an African American musical group in the 1950s who performed in the instrumentally-sparse, a cappella-based harmonic style known as Philadelphia doo-wop. The best-known song by the Bosstones is Mope-Itty Mope which was released as a 45 rpm single in 1959. In describing one of the many compilation CDs on which this song appears, Allmusic writes: it's a treat to have access to songs by...the Bosstones [and other groups] that received regional attention but never achieved the national success initially hoped for.[1] The b-side of Mope-ity was a song called Wings of an Angel. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.