Doo-wop was a musical style from the early rock'n'roll era that featured a particular type of a cappella, that is, without instruments, ensemble singing. The term itself, which represents the doo waaah
sung by backing singers, was coined in the early 1970s by New York disc jockey
Gus Gossert
. In
doo-wop
's heyday in the late 1950s, however, the style was considered an indistinguishable part of rock'n'roll.
Music historian
Bob Hyde
described doo-wop as the combination of...