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The Bosstones (also known as The Boss-Tones) were an American musical group who performed in the instrumentally-sparse, a cappella-based harmonic style known as Philadelphia doo-wop. The Bosstones apparently released only one record in their history: "Mope-Itty Mope" b/w "Wings of an Angel" in 1959 on the Boss Records label. The record was a not a national or regional hit (although it did manage to scrape into the playlists of a few stations, such as KIMN in Denver in May of that year). "Mope-Itty Mope" would probably have fallen into complete obscurity except for fact that Mexican border blaster XEAK decided to play it in 1961 -- in fact, they played it over and over for 72 straight hours, stunting its new format: "Extra News", the first 24-hour all-news station in Southern California (and one of the first in the United States). In 1962, The Dovells remade "Mope-itty Mope" as "The Mope-itty Mope Stomp".In 1983, a ska-core band was formed in Boston, also calling themselves The Bosstones; after finding out about the long-defunct group of that name, the newer band changed its name to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
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Roots of Trash & Garage [2011]
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Shout, Pts. 1-2 | 4:24 |
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