Imagine a steakhouse taking lamb chops off the menu in a bid to attract vegetarians. It would be laughable. But this is essentially what Majic radio (WMXJ, FM 102.7) did when it dumped Ken Held and ...
An era in New York radio ends Sunday night at 8 with the last broadcast of Don K. Reed’s “Doo-Wop Shop” on WCBS-FM (101. 1). “It’s sad to see it go,” said Reed, who has done the show since 1975 and ...
Terry Cook of Chester, founder of the Lead East convention is seen with his 1937 Bugatti Atlantic replica auto at his home in Chester. He founded the popular convention, a celebration of 1950's pop ...
Lenny Dell has come a long way from the days when he and a few buddies would harmonize before music class at Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx. But Dell, now 72, says that the enthusiasm ...
Back when Dion Dimucci harmonized his way to stardom from Belmont, Kenny Vance was singing doo-wop on streetcorners in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Vance also went on to fame and success, in the iconic 1960s ...
... It was interesting to read your column about doo-wop music on the radio. It was good to see Nay Nassar write in as well. He is an old doo-wop friend of mine from ...
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 ...
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