This week on Cyprus Avenue, host Bill Shapiro turns back the clock for a taste of Doo Wop, featuring The Drifters, Dion, the Beach Boys & more. Legend has it that Doo Wop music got its famous nonsense ...
Nicky Addeo, a New Jersey music icon known for his falsetto voice, has died. He was 82. The popular 1960s doo-wop singer died ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- If your fate is to be mostly remembered for just one thing, it might as well be something awesome. So The Tokens’ Jay Siegel, whose soaring falsetto created the unforgettable ...
In the 1950s, vocal groups in American cities began emphasizing harmony and the voice in backing music, building on existing traditions of small-group harmony. From there, a distinctive genre emerged, ...
“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) ...
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