Lenny Dell has come a long way from the days when he and a few buddies would harmonize before music class at Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx. But Dell, now 72, says that the enthusiasm ...
Back when Dion Dimucci harmonized his way to stardom from Belmont, Kenny Vance was singing doo-wop on streetcorners in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Vance also went on to fame and success, in the iconic 1960s ...
Poodle skirts, beehive hairdos, pompadours, and ducktails were back in style Saturday, May 18 as the Golden Oldies of the 1950s and early 1960s filled the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts.
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts presents GOLDEN OLDIES DOO WOP on Sunday, May 18th, 2025, at 5 PM. This unforgettable evening brings together some of the most iconic voices of the golden era, ...
BRISTOL BOROUGH – Sonny Mosco’s voice won’t be heard Sept. 15, when Gary Tosti’s “Garyoke” group takes to the stage for the seventh annual Golden Oldies in the Park, but the man, who died in July of ...
TJ Lubinsky, the prolific producer of oldies-music extravaganzas that have anchored public TV pledge drives for the past 20 years, will offer stations a new twist on the format for March. With The ...
Ah yes, doo wop. Perhaps no other genre is so closely identified with a specific era in time than the one that relied on majestic vocal harmonies to alternately offer pleading paeans to love and ...
It was one fine day. More than 500 people were movin’ and groovin’ to doo wop-ers Witness in Marine Park on July 27, as part of state Sen. Marty Golden’s (R–Marine Park) summer concert series. The six ...
The style of music known as doo-wop had at least two heydays: Once in the 1950s and '60s, when the music was first recorded, and again during a revival in the '70s, thanks in part to nostalgic movies ...