Compare doo wop to the popular music of the time—Fred Astaire, Doris Day, Mills Brothers. Nothing dangerous or challenging. In the 1950s, there was racial tension, political strife, financial ...

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 ...

Doo-wop is in all of that music, especially Boyz II Men. And Philadelphia (Boyz II Men’s hometown) was a doo-wop mecca, like New Jersey.” Nolfi gives musical director Paladino much credit for ...

A 13-episode series dedicated to doo-wop music heads a joint development slate of Rhino Entertainment and WQED Pittsburgh, the PBS station that made pledge-drive history with the "Doo Wop 50 ...

Take for example, the creation of The Doo Wop Project, the six-member enclave of performers that was borne of offstage conversations and considerations among some cast members of the long-running ...

This post courtesy of Explore Brooklyn, an all-inclusive guide to the businesses, neighborhoods, and attractions that make Brooklyn great.. For many, doo-wop music was and is the soundtrack of the ...

Doo-wop music, like rock ‘n’ roll, will never die and is finding new life on television. Last year a PBS special, “Doo-Wop 50,” re-energized the street-corner harmony music that began ...

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).

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 ...