Various Artists - Street Corner Icons: The Story Of Doo-Wop | National Album Day 2026

Various Artists - Street Corner Icons: The Story Of Doo-Wop is a limited National Album Day 2026 vinyl collection celebrating the harmony groups and vocal style associated with doo-wop.

This National Album Day 2026 edition forms part of Acrobat's limited ICONS vinyl series, a set of genre-focused collections created to celebrate landmark performers and recordings. Each title in the series is pressed on heavyweight Deep Cut vinyl in a distinctive colour treatment, with some editions using a marbled finish. The presentation is designed as a collector-friendly package, with a label that mirrors the sleeve artwork, informative notes, a black inner sleeve, a reusable polybag and a hype sticker.

The title The Story Of Doo-Wop points to the communal character of the music: close vocal harmonies, memorable lead lines and arrangements that could move from street-corner performance to studio recording without losing their directness. Doo-wop became a crucial part of the development of rhythm and blues and early pop, and its influence can be heard throughout later soul and vocal-group traditions.

This Acrobat ICONS edition presents that history as a physical listening experience. The coloured Deep Cut vinyl is accompanied by informative notes intended to provide background and encourage further exploration of the label's related releases. The presentation also includes a label design that mirrors the sleeve, a black inner sleeve, reusable protective polybag and hype sticker, creating a consistent limited-edition package across the series.

Released on 17 October 2026 for National Album Day, this one-LP collection is suitable both as an introduction to doo-wop and as a genre-focused addition for collectors of classic vocal music, rhythm and blues and early rock 'n' roll. Catalogue number ACRSLP1725.