The Corvettes Doo Wop Revue will return to Cheney Hall for a celebration of 1950s rock and roll featuring “Little Darlin',” “Earth Angel,” “Rock ...
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 ...
You’d need to have a tough heart not to appreciate doo-wop. If you have such a calcified ticker, no argument can convince you to hear the late 1950s doo-wop group the Cadets. Still, these talented, ...
As a dozen men stroll into Leverington Presbyterian Church to rehearse a few songs, they bring with them an undeniable experience that’s heard as immediately as they begin belting out their first song ...
“Harmony, harmony, harmony — no band, no nothing,” explains Charlie Thomas of the Drifters in director Brent Wilson’s Streetlight Harmonies, a new doc tracing the history of doo-wop (available on VOD) ...
For more than 60 years, he sang with various incarnations of the Harptones. “His voice was unique,” one concert producer said, “and it lasted his whole life.” By Richard Sandomir Willie Winfield, ...