(The Rivieras - group voted most likely to gladly lose your inhibitions to)

We're heading into the wonderworld of Stereo Doo-Wop tonight. The Rivieras hit on the formula of big, lush, slow and dreamy as their signature material, after hitting-and-missing for a few years. As the Doo-Wop genre evolved from vocals with a rhythm background to big lush production numbers, so did the audience appeal. And with the extra added bonus of updating standards (since this track "Moonlight Cocktails" is an old Glenn Miller tune from the early 40s), it almost became something your parents would like, or at least tolerate.

Hard to believe now, but Doo-wop, in fact all of Rock n' Roll, had pretty much the same acceptance level with the older crowd as Rap did in the early days . . .and maybe still does now.

But the romantic component of groups like The Rivieras was pretty heady indeed. Slow dancing and mood alterations via gushingly love-laced lyrics topped off by plaintive falsettos probably did more to stimulate libidos than anything else on the market at the time.

And for an era swearing up and down it was heading into nuclear waste, this was a great distraction.

Maybe it still is.