Lenny Dell has come a long way from the days when he and a few buddies would harmonize before music class at Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx. But Dell, now 72, says that the enthusiasm ...
Imagine a steakhouse taking lamb chops off the menu in a bid to attract vegetarians. It would be laughable. But this is essentially what Majic radio (WMXJ, FM 102.7) did when it dumped Ken Held and ...
Doo-wop oldies music might not come to mind when someone thinks of a hot musical genre. But consider this: In the next six weeks, starting today with the Rock and Roll Superstar Explosion II in ...
The biggest 'oldies but goodies' doo-wopp concert in decades will be coming to Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) on Saturday night, March 7, as seven major acts from the 1950's and 1960's come ...
Terry Cook of Chester, founder of the Lead East convention is seen with his 1937 Bugatti Atlantic replica auto at his home in Chester. He founded the popular convention, a celebration of 1950's pop ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Meet the Jukebox 45 Show Band. The 1950’s doo-wop musical group based in Connecticut brands itself as the state’s “Premier Oldies Band.” State trooper and combat veteran Mike ...
Back when Dion Dimucci harmonized his way to stardom from Belmont, Kenny Vance was singing doo-wop on streetcorners in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Vance also went on to fame and success, in the iconic 1960s ...
BRISTOL BOROUGH – Sonny Mosco’s voice won’t be heard Sept. 15, when Gary Tosti’s “Garyoke” group takes to the stage for the seventh annual Golden Oldies in the Park, but the man, who died in July of ...
Ah yes, doo wop. Perhaps no other genre is so closely identified with a specific era in time than the one that relied on majestic vocal harmonies to alternately offer pleading paeans to love and ...
It was one fine day. More than 500 people were movin’ and groovin’ to doo wop-ers Witness in Marine Park on July 27, as part of state Sen. Marty Golden’s (R–Marine Park) summer concert series. The six ...