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Looking for an Echo

The Persuasions•Official Audio (YouTube API)

Lyrics

Down on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, we used to harmonize

Me, Jimmy and Toubo, Joe and some other guys

We were singing oldies, but they were newies then

And today when I play my old 45's, I remember when

We'd practice in a subway, in a lobby or a hall

Crowded in a doorway, singing doo wops to the wall

And if we went to a party and they wouldn't let us sing

We'd lock ourselves in the bathroom, and nobody could get in

'Cause we were looking for an echo, an answer to our sound

A place to be in harmony

A place we almost found

And the girls would gather 'round us, and our heads would swell

We'd sing songs by the Moonglows, the Harptones, and the Dells

And when we sang "Sincerely," we really sang it high

Even though it was falsetto, we almost reached the sky

We've sung a lot of changes since 1955

And a lot of bad arrangements we've tried to harmonize

Now we've turned into oldies, but we were newies then

And today when I play my old 45's, I remember when

We were looking for an echo, an answer to our sound

A place to be in harmony

A place we almost found