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		The New York City of old is well and truly dead, as there is only one remaining street-corner doo-wop group - and it sucks. And has an accordion player, to add insult to auditory injury (nypost.com)		37
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Wangiss		2012-06-04 09:54:05 AM

This is a TMBG reference, isn't it.

oldfarthenry		2012-06-04 10:03:36 AM

Titty-pinches and bleeding nipples are part of the job for a female accordionist.

James!		2012-06-04 10:06:57 AM

I was going to say there was a group in the subway, but this is them.

Gulper Eel		2012-06-04 10:48:12 AM

Dion is still badass, though.

brap		2012-06-04 11:14:36 AM

I know the first thing that comes to my mind when seeking peace and quiet is "I'm going to move into an apartment on Bleeker Street. That's the ticket."

gopher321		2012-06-04 11:33:00 AM

So many damn buskers in the Toronto subway system and on the street above. Don't know about a doo-wop group, though. Lot of violin players for some reason.

Nana's Vibrator		2012-06-04 12:27:06 PM

As long as I can still stop at a red light and get a handjob from the homeless guy who spits on my windshield and wipes it off with a newspaper, New York's OK in my book.

TravisBickle62		2012-06-04 12:27:27 PM

Farking beggars, they need a doo-wop vigilante to get medieval on the bastages

DesertCoyote		2012-06-04 12:36:28 PM

Adding an accordionist to your doo-wop group...that's so Portland, not NYC!

johnny queso		2012-06-04 12:39:09 PM

accordions are awesome and if you don't like them you should feel bad.

LarryDan43		2012-06-04 12:40:53 PM

Get a real job you lazy free loaders!

Tat'dGreaser		2012-06-04 12:41:19 PM

If they can't sing to begin with then I understand the complaint. Then again you were stupid enough to want to live in NYC and expect peace and quiet.

Iblis824		2012-06-04 12:41:36 PM

gopher321: So many damn buskers in the Toronto subway system and on the street above. Don't know about a doo-wop group, though. Lot of violin players for some reason.

Is there a music school nearby?

MoronLessOff		2012-06-04 12:45:53 PM

So...move to New New York.

Arkanaut		2012-06-04 12:49:27 PM

I've seen a doo-wop group going around in the subways. So... maybe they just moved?

Glenford		2012-06-04 12:49:39 PM

johnny queso: accordions are awesome and if you don't like them you should feel bad.

Approves, and frowns on subby.
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milowitz		2012-06-04 12:54:41 PM

The B Sharps?

busy chillin'		2012-06-04 12:59:33 PM

milowitz

The B Sharps?

Give it a rest

milowitz		2012-06-04 01:00:13 PM

milowitz: The B Sharps?

Wait, that was a barbershop quartet. NM. How about the Yellow Jacket Boys.

AnthraxRipple		2012-06-04 01:01:39 PM

Glenford: johnny queso: accordions are awesome and if you don't like them you should feel bad.

Approves, and frowns on subby.
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offmymeds		2012-06-04 01:04:02 PM

TheShavingofOccam123		2012-06-04 01:04:03 PM

The definition of a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the accordion but doesn't.

RodneyToady		2012-06-04 01:17:16 PM

gopher321: Lot of violin players for some reason.

Good acoustics, I'd imagine.

johnny queso		2012-06-04 01:28:26 PM

pedobear approved

FirstNationalBastard		2012-06-04 02:13:17 PM

Nana's Vibrator: As long as I can still stop at a red light and get a handjob from the homeless guy who spits on my windshield and wipes it off with a newspaper, New York's OK in my book.

You're really missing out by not having him spit on your cock and wipe it off with a newspaper, too.

Nana's Vibrator		2012-06-04 02:31:23 PM

FirstNationalBastard: Nana's Vibrator: As long as I can still stop at a red light and get a handjob from the homeless guy who spits on my windshield and wipes it off with a newspaper, New York's OK in my book.

You're really missing out by not having him spit on your cock and wipe it off with a newspaper, too.

I wrote a Haiku:

Windshield, hand, or cock.
Homeless and spitting robots,
It's all good to me

thankyouverymuch

KrispyKritter		2012-06-04 02:52:31 PM

Gulper Eel: Dion is still badass, though.

he's The Wanderer!

TheShavingofOccam123		2012-06-04 02:54:21 PM

FirstNationalBastard: Nana's Vibrator: As long as I can still stop at a red light and get a handjob from the homeless guy who spits on my windshield and wipes it off with a newspaper, New York's OK in my book.

You're really missing out by not having him spit on your cock and wipe it off with a newspaper, too.

I have grown to appreciate the use of a busket. Amazing what they can do.

/Fish boots!

Drexl's Eye		2012-06-04 03:07:01 PM

RIP Hawky

/I know, I know, it was Philly

B.L.Z. Bub		2012-06-04 03:48:36 PM

That there hasn't been a widespread movement to recall this guy just shows what pussies Noo Yawkers have become.

Gulper Eel		2012-06-04 06:51:17 PM

B.L.Z. Bub: That there hasn't been a widespread movement to recall this guy just shows what pussies Noo Yawkers have become.

No, they just see the likely successors and shudder. The older New Yorkers think back to the Dinkins/Koch/Beame years.

And somewhere, Al Sharpton is polishing his medallion and taking his old track suit in for alterations.

Everybody accustomed to having a snout or two in the trough will want to hop on the gravy train (he said, mixing metaphors or something), because it'll be a short run between Bloomberg leaving and Preet Bharara running in 2017.

cybernia		2012-06-04 07:27:10 PM

B.L.Z. Bub: [images.forbes.com image 400x280]

That there hasn't been a widespread movement to recall this guy just shows what pussies Noo Yawkers have become.

I think it's more resignation than pussification. We fought and they ran roughshod over us. But you are right, there should have been a recall.

cybernia		2012-06-04 07:30:22 PM

Gulper Eel: B.L.Z. Bub: That there hasn't been a widespread movement to recall this guy just shows what pussies Noo Yawkers have become.

No, they just see the likely successors and shudder. The older New Yorkers think back to the Dinkins/Koch/Beame years.

And somewhere, Al Sharpton is polishing his medallion and taking his old track suit in for alterations.

Everybody accustomed to having a snout or two in the trough will want to hop on the gravy train (he said, mixing metaphors or something), because it'll be a short run between Bloomberg leaving and Preet Bharara running in 2017.

You know what? Sharpton is looking good right now. Hell, the old corrupt bosses are looking good right now. At least they gave the poor kids new shoes each year.

JohnnyAqua		2012-06-04 08:06:36 PM

I seen these guys singing on the subway more then a few times, they are good but annoying. If you don't tip them they surround you and sing. Never seen the girl with them though, normally they have 2 or 3 other guys singing with them.

HaywoodJablonski		2012-06-05 03:48:55 AM

This is a true tragedy. NYC has had streetcorner doo wop groups for over 300 years. It has truly lost its identity now.

Miss Stein		2012-06-05 05:24:47 AM

Best doo-wop song by an accordionist, ever.

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Gulper Eel		2012-06-05 06:44:34 AM

HaywoodJablonski: NYC has had streetcorner doo wop groups for over 300 years.

You remember the Del-VanStuyvesants too? And the Schuyler-Tones? They were great.

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