A style of vocal-based rhythm and bluesmusic popular in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s in America characterized by nonsensical backing vocals.
Origin
, referring to (mostly) white rock-and-roll groups of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The name is , representing the nonlexical backing vocals of some songs of the genre.
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