Sh-boom! Sh-boom! Alang alang a dip.

[BurtWorm]

Life could be a dream
If I could take you up to paradise up above
And you would tell me I'm the only one that you love
Life could be a dream, sweetheart.


If you only know the corny Crewcuts version of this song (the one with all the yadda dadda dadda daddas), then you haven't really heard this song.


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Written by: James Edwards, Carl Feaster, Claude Feaster, James Keyes, Floyd McRae
Produced by: Ahmet Ertegun
Released: April '54 on Cat
Charts: Predates pop charts

"Life could be a dream.... If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love," sang the Chords in this doo-wop hit. Some music historians consider this to be the first rock & roll record. Said Keyes, the group's first tenor, " were like horns blowing rhythmic things." The "boom" in the title chorus was inspired by the then-raging fear of the H-bomb.

Appears on: Doo Wop Box (Rhino)