Strange that no one ever developed a consistent vocabulary for these. When I think of "Only The Lonely", I go: "Dum, dum, dum, dum de doo wah" which is different than others would vocalize it. My version of Breaking Up Is Hard to Do is nothing like Big Mick's ("down's" surely, not "dumms"). Where is the International DooWop Standards Bureau????
yours, Peter T.