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Fans of early rhythm-and-blues vocal-group harmony, informally called doo-wop, will soon have a new Sunday-night radio option. Christine Vitale, a longtime collector and historian, will launch “The ...

Back by popular demand, stars of Broadway's Jersey Boys and Motown: The Musical take the stage at Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University for The Doo Wop Project, Saturday, May 7 at 8:00 ...

Street Corner Symphonies is a 15-volume year-by-year survey of doo-wop by scholar Bill Dahl. Harmony, Teenagers And 'The Complete Story Of Doo-Wop' During the early 1950s, when rock 'n' roll's history ...

The South Florida Group Harmony Association, an organization for doo-wop aficionados, was founded three years ago by Dr. Alan Seifer, a family practitioner in Kendall. The group has monthly meetings ...

Lee Andrews, the father of The Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and the lead singer of the 1950s doo-wop group Lee Andrews & the Hearts, died Wednesday, March 16, 2016. He was 79. The ...

“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) ...

The style of music known as doo-wop had at least two heydays: Once in the 1950s and '60s, when the music was first recorded, and again during a revival in the '70s, thanks in part to nostalgic movies ...

Since the business of ’50s nostalgia is now more than two decades old, it is important to note when an important aspect of the Eisenhower Era is accurately reflected and not just reduced to “Happy ...

It was the music that spawned – or at least made a generous contribution to – a generation. And now it's back. Described as barbershop harmony with beat, doo-wop's golden age in the 1950s was a thing ...

During the early 1950s, when rock 'n' roll's history was beginning to come together, no single type of music sold better — or was more influential in binding teenagers together — as the harmony ...