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 ...

Every member of the five-man Doo Wop Project is much too young to have been part of the first-generation doo-woppers. “Every guy has his own journey to this music,” founding member Dominic Nolfi said ...

Like a lot of Brooklyn kids in the 1950s, Kenny Vance would tune in Alan Freed, Dr. Jive and the silver-tongued deejays who played the Five Satins, the Flamingos, the Moonglows and the other ...

Larry Chance and the Earls: Born in Philadelphia, Larry Chance moved to the Bronx, N.Y., where he formed a singing group with five fellow high school students in the mid-1950s. They enjoyed their ...

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 ...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:16:24 GMT — Soul and doo wop music groups Ladies of Soul and Street Corner Doo Wop performed a concert Sunday evening in efforts to raise money for the Paul Robeson Performing Arts ...

In the early ’50s, when high school seemed more innocent, the stairwells of New York’s Morrisania High School in the Bronx echoed with singing-doo-wop singing to be precise. This precursor of rock ‘n’ ...

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Shout Factory has again released a companion boxset to a PBS special scheduled for December, this time dealing with the golden era of doo-wop music. The founders of Shout Factory (the brothers Foos) ...

On Saturday, The Doo Wop Project, one of America’s premier vocal groups, will take the stage at the American Music Theatre in Lancaster. Comprised of Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway stars, the ...

They’re an echo of old Brooklyn comin’ right back atcha. This doo-wop group lives up to the declaration on the first page of its Web site: “The Encounters will bring you back to a street corner in ...