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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Larry Chance, who became a legend of doo-wop with his Bronx group The Earls—also known as Larry Chance and the Earls—has passed ...

Every member of the five-man Doo Wop Project is much too young to have been part of the first-generation doo-woppers. “Every guy has his own journey to this music,” founding member Dominic Nolfi said ...

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, ...

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 ...