Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decades before Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin made Puerto Rican music mainstream in American culture, there was an ...

Doo-wop was a huge influence on The Beach Boys‘ songs. For example, the original version of The Beach Boys’ “Barbara Ann” was by a doo-wop group. Mike Love revealed he was surprised when the band’s ...

THIS EVENING is the first of three free summer concerts that the Weekend section is sponsoring at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre. This week's program features doo-wop pioneers the Legendary Orioles, ...

Doo-wop group Scout Ford & the Blue Moons find the ability to sing outside, without a band or any equipment, is helping them spark joy and nostalgia for their fellow New Yorkers. When the group sings ...

Like doo-wop, the earliest era of rap was full of groups and ensembles, many with numbers in their name, who were known for routines in which they passed lyrics between each member and often broke out ...

Five legendary doo wop bands will take the stage at F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. for Joe Nardone Presents: “Oh What a Night” of Doo Wop Legends. The show, ...

Pookie Hudson, lead singer and songwriter for the doo wop group The Spaniels, who lent his romantic tenor to hits like "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight" and influenced generations of later artists, ...

Dion DiMucci, formerly of the Belmonts, the best Bronx doo-wop group of the JFK era, inspirer of Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Paul Simon (the poètes maudits of commercial hip), is having some ...

The 1960s gave rise to the ‘Eastside sound,” which refers to new musical styles created by groups coming out of Boyle Heights and neighboring areas at that time. “The Eastside sound, I would say, is ...

I settled in with my friend, a 50-something mom like me, on her sofa, as we queued up Heart & Soul: A Love Story on Amazon Prime. I’d read the previews and got a brief synopsis of the documentary from ...

Todd Baptista remembers going to doo-wop package shows and seething when dubious versions of the Drifters and Coasters would take the stage. “They would say, ‘This is a song we recorded in 1958,’ and ...

Decades before Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin made Puerto Rican music mainstream in American culture, there was an all-Puerto Rican doo-wop group that broke into the top music charts. And ...