The power didn't cut out when Sha Na Na performed immediately before Jimi Hendrix at the conclusion of the famously rain-soaked Woodstock festival in August 1969 in Bethel, N.Y. But the Wurlitzer ...
While college students were a big part of the audience at Woodstock in the summer of 1969, John “Jocko” Marcellino – then both a freshman at Columbia University and the drummer for Sha Na Na – was ...
Screamin’ Scott Simon, who spent 52 years as the pianist of the energetic rock ’n’ roll and doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai after a long battle with sinus cancer, his daughter Nina ...
Jocko Marcellino readily acknowledges he has lived a charmed life. The veteran singer and drummer was a 19-year-old Columbia University student when his then-brand-new band, Sha Na Na, performed ...
“I didn’t know the 1950s were the good old days until we were past them,” cracks Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s principal pops conductor, Marvin Hamlisch. A multiple-award-winning composer, Hamlisch, 65 ...
Dennis Greene, a founding member of the rock and roll/doo-wop group Sha Na Na and former Columbia Pictures exec, died Saturday at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He was 66. According to the LA Times, ...
WEYMOUTH, Mass., Feb. 27 (UPI) --Former Sha Na Na singer and saxophonist Lennie Baker has died in a Massachusetts hospital after developing an infection. He was 69. His nephew, David Baker, confirmed ...
The death toll of music-world notables in 2016 continued Friday, with the announcement of the death of Lennie Baker, a longtime member of the rock-and-doo-wop band Sha Na Na. He was 69. His nephew, ...
Screamin’ Scott Simon, who spent 52 years as the pianist of the energetic rock ’n’ roll and doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai after a long battle with sinus cancer, his daughter Nina ...
Screamin' Scott Simon, famed pianist of Sha Na Na, has died at age 75 following a prolonged battle with sinus cancer. Renowned for his dynamic stage presence and co-writing 'Sandy' from 'Grease,' ...