Kenny Vance & the Planotones - Countdown to Love

If jazz musicians can honor the past and be called "classicist" instead of "dated," is there any reason why rock and R&B artists cannot do the same? Of course not. And Kenny Vance & The Planotones honor the past with consistently worthwhile results on Countdown To Love, a 49-minute CD that came out in 2007 but generally salutes '50s doo wop. Countdown To Love is not the work of doo wop purists; a few of the tracks are more '60s-sounding than '50s-sounding. Vance offers a big dose of doo wop (including performances of The Drifters' "There Goes My Baby" and Rosie & The Originals' "Angel Baby"), but he also embraces the Burt Bacharach/Hal David favorite "Anyone Who Had a Heart" (which was a major hit for Dionne Warwick in 1963). Read More