Editing Doo-wop (section)

==Doo-wop's influence==
Other pop R&B groups, including [[the Coasters]], [[the Drifters]], [[the Midnighters]],  and [[the Platters]], helped link the doo-wop style to the mainstream, and to the future sound of [[soul music]]. The style's influence is heard in the music of [[the Miracles]], particularly in their early hits such as "Got A Job" (an [[answer song]] to "[[Get a Job (song)|Get a Job]]"),<ref name=pc25>{{Gilliland |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19780/m1/ |title=Show 25 – The Soul Reformation: Phase two, the Motown story. [Part 4] }}</ref> "[[Bad Girl (The Miracles song)|Bad Girl]]", "[[Who's Loving You]]", "[[(You Can) Depend on Me]]", and "[[Ooo Baby Baby]]". Doo-wop was a precursor to many of the African-American musical styles seen today. Having evolved from [[Pop music|pop]], [[jazz]] and [[blues music|blues]], doo-wop influenced many of the major rock and roll groups that defined the latter decades of the 20th century, and laid the foundation for many later musical innovations.

Doo-wop's influence continued in soul, pop, and [[rock music|rock]] groups of the 1960s, including [[The Four Seasons (band)|the Four Seasons]], [[girl group]]s, and vocal [[surf music]] performers such as [[the Beach Boys]]. In the Beach Boys' case, doo-wop influence is evident in the [['50s progression|chord progression]] used on part of their early hit "[[Surfer Girl (song)|Surfer Girl]]".<ref name="Lambert2007">{{cite book|author=Philip Lambert|title=Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3sGoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|date=19 March 2007|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4411-0748-0|page=28}}</ref><ref name="Lambert2016">{{cite book|author=Philip Lambert|title=Good Vibrations: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys in Critical Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aU5KDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA66|date=7 October 2016|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-11995-0|pages=66–67}}</ref> The Beach Boys later acknowledged their debt to doo-wop by covering [[The Regents (doo-wop band)|the Regents]]' 1961 number 7 hit, "[[Barbara Ann]]" with their number 2 cover of the song in 1966.<ref>[[Joel Whitburn|Whitburn, Joel]], ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', Billboard Books, New York, 1992, pp. 42 & 381</ref> In 1984, [[Billy Joel]] released "[[The Longest Time]]", a clear tribute to doo-wop music.<ref name="Schruers2015">{{cite book|author=Fred Schruers|title=Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iSrZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172|date=17 November 2015|publisher=Crown Archetype|isbn=978-0-8041-4021-8|page=172}}</ref>