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• n  (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent

• Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson and Singer Michael Jackson push Japanese products, and Suntory brewery features a black doo-wop group called 14 Karat Soul in television spots for .
• The doo-wop group from New York first hit the music scene in 1958 with the single "Tears on My Pillow.
• So-called "doo-wop motels" like the Starlux, the Bel Air and the Tangiers offer garish design, funky colors and the ubiquitous plastic palm trees.

• dago
• ginzo
• Guinea
• greaseball

News & Articles

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• GOT FOOD? Bristol Borough looking for additional vendors to satisfy hungry Doo Wop concert crowd; headline acts ...
  BRISTOL BOROUGH - Attention, vendors! The borough has some business for you when it holds its annual Doo Wop concert from 5-11 p.m. on Sept. 21.
  June 12, 2013 - Bristol Pilot
• Belle Ghoul’s ‘Saturday Knife Fight’ EP
  Belle Ghoul – Saturday Knife Fight EP   Elephant Records Info Our singer slides in with a too-cool croon as mellifluous as some late-night DJ on buzzy AM radio. There’s this hand-clappable beat coaxing you to shake and twist your way out of the diner and slide down the banister to that wavy bass groove as rich in character as any low humming baritone member of a doo-wop quartet. These cascading ...
  June 12, 2013 - Detroit Metro Times
• Weather Forces postponement of Doo Wop Show at PNC Arts Center
  Tonight's Doo Wop Extravaganza with special host Cousin Brucie at the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel has been postponed because of bad weather.
  June 7, 2013 - Asbury Park Press

Quotes

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• Joe Paterno in Dallas Morning News
  Gary [Darnell] and I were in the back room just shooing the bull with a couple of his players and a couple of my players,Paterno said inside the Alamodome. "Sticks and stones, ya know, is what my mom used to say when they called me a wop...
• Jon Bauman in Daily News Transcript
  They are the three most valuable group names of the Doo Wop era,said Bauman. "It isn't an accident that these groups have been hit so hard by identity theft, because they have had so many hit records between them. A lot of what goes on has...
• Shawn Stockman in Newsday
  We've been approached to do a country record, and a doo-wop record and a classical record,Stockman said. "We're not sure which one we'll do yet, but it's probably going to be the one that's most challenging to us."