DJ Bruce Morrow--Cousin Brucie to listeners--sits in his West Village townhouse. It’s decidely 1950s—a curvy, lighted jukebox is in one corner; a toddler’s antique metal car with pedals is in another; ...
Twin Temple is a satanic-doo wop duo fronted by husband and wife Alexandra and Zachary James. Their show at the Castro ...
The Doo Wop Project pays homage to the roots of group singing and celebrates the legacy of African American harmonies that laid the foundation for American pop and rock. Tracing back to the early days ...
Earlier this fall, an 83-year-old doo-wop legend named Fred Parris was watching television at home when he saw an interview with Robert De Niro. The actor was promoting The Irishman, his ...
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 ...
Courtesy of The Nation's Capital: Doo-Wop From The Street Corner To The Stage Filmmaker, DJ, and music scholar Beverly Lindsay-Johnson had an idea around a year ago: Create a pop-up museum to display ...
The sound of doo-wop is everywhere in modern pop and rock, and its simple, sugary charms are a breath of aural fresh air Sometimes life just feels too complicated. Sometimes contemporary bands just ...
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, ...
"Anybody who could sing could join in," says Jimmy Gallagher of the early doo-wop scene in Brooklyn. Auto-Tune? Doo-wop singers from the 1950s don't need no stinkin' Auto-Tune. "We didn't have that ...
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