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 ...

Aspiring a cappella and vocal group harmony singers are invited to audition for The Next '50s & '60s Pop, Soul and Doo-Wop Star, an ongoing worldwide talent search. The effort will culminate with a ...

Eugene Pitt, the lead singer of the Jive Five, a doo-wop group that reached the Top 10 in 1961 with “My True Story” and endured long past doo-wop’s heyday by mingling their sound with ascendant genres ...

Larry Chance, who became a legend of doo-wop with his Bronx group The Earls—also known as Larry Chance and the Earls—has passed away. He was 82. Chance died on Sept. 6 in a hospital in Orlando, ...

The tight harmonies of the doo-wop sound have been part of popular culture since young, would-be stars started singing on street corners in their neighborhoods and creating a sound that captivated the ...

It started out as an ordinary winter day at the Glenner Center in Hillcrest, where people with dementia come for adult day care. But then four women showed up in 1960s bouffant wigs and started ...

Fredericksburg, Va., March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- D.C.’s Finest, also known as the Doo-Wop Cops, a Washington D.C.- based a cappella group that has entertained presidents and performed with ...

In early November 1983, Billy Joel landed his first and, at the time of this writing, only No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom with a song that he originally penned as a sort of “joke” at his own expense.