The '50s conjure thoughts of poodle skirts, roller rinks, sock-hops, and doo-wop. Songs like "Sh-Boom" and "Runaround Sue" ...
Some things should never go out of style. When you see the Dubs-- a doo-wop group formed in Harlem in 1956 -- they still perform in immaculate outfits that match right down to the shoes, just like the ...
Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s doo-wop group the Five Satins, who wrote the hit “In the Still of the Night,” died Jan 13. He was 85. The group made the announcement on its official Facebook ...
NEW HAVEN >> Without Fred Parris, The Five Satins and their soul-stirring 1956 Doo-Wop hit, “In The Still Of The Night,” who knows; maybe there never would have been a movie — and now a play — called ...
When Danny and the Juniors first sang the words “Rock and roll is here to stay / it will never die,” they were on to something. Six decades later, doo wop music from the 1950s and ”60s has resurged in ...
“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) ...