The Radiants helped drive the shift from doo-wop to soul - Chicago Reader

The Radiants helped drive the shift from doo-wop to soul - Chicago Reader

Chicago’s famed soul-music scene produced beloved groups (the Impressions, the Chi-Lites) and legendary labels (Chess, Vee-Jay), and that’s reason enough to remember soul’s roots in doo-wop. Doo-wop hasn’t aged as well as soul—it hasn’t produced an answer to neosoul, for instance—but it was one of the genres that fed into rock ’n’ roll. In the […] The post The Radiants helped drive the shift from doo-wop to soul appeared first on Chicago Reader.