LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

A strange and magnificent marriage of doo-wop and big band music, the Duprees are what the Pied Pipers would've sounded like had they been born twenty years later and on the wrong side of the river. As romantic as a moonlit linguini dinner on a sidewalk cafe in Little Italy, these two great-sounding discs represent the zenith of that most righteous of genres, makeout music