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Enjoy full performances by Johnny Maestro, The Duprees, Little Anthony, Frankie Valli, and more! The All New Rock, Pop and Doo Wop Full-length performances include: Johnny Maestro, The Duprees ...
Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Celebrate the legacy of the music of the late 1950s and 60s with a new generation of artists. Includes performances by ...
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 ...
By the early 1950s, doo wop was carving out its own niche, via the likes of the Sonny Til and the Orioles’ recording of “Crying in the Chapel’ (a song Elvis Presley later made famous).
“People may think doo-wop music is barbershop quartet or they think it’s cheesy ’50s poodle skirts, ... Feel free to disagree with others—just keep it respectful.
Mildred “Millie” Russell at Creative Suitland Arts Center, where the exhibit “Doo-Wop Under the Street Lamp” is on display until Sept. 15. Russell was married to Diz Russell of the Orioles ...
Two members of the Puerto Rican doo-wop group The Eternals, popular in the late 1950s with Billboard chart hit, talk of the group's contributions to the genre.