The Beach Boys included "In My Room" on their 1963 album, Surfer Girl. The song's tone and introspective lyrics were a sign ...

NORTH ADAMS -- Listen to "My True Story," the title track on R&B and soul legend Aaron Neville's new doo-wop album, and you can hear what makes his voice unique. From the start, Neville hits the first ...

The golden era for doo-wop harmony peaked around 1960, long before Micah Jeremiah Mims was born, yet he embraces those songs like old friends. “Blue Moon,” “Paper Doll” and “Fools Fall In Love.” ...

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 ...

It may be overly ambitious to bring four singers together and expect them to match the smooth and close harmonies of the doo-wop groups of the 1950s in just three weeks of rehearsals. The four male ...

Maurice Williams, the singer and songwriter best known for his seminal 1960 doo-wop hit “Stay,” died on Aug. 6. He was 86. Williams’ death was announced by the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, into ...

While he rarely wrote tunes for other artists in the 1970s, John Lennon co-wrote David Bowie’s “Fame.” The tune’s other writer said that it was inspired by a 1960s doo-wop classic. Today, that doo-wop ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...