DJ Bruce Morrow—Cousin Brucie to listeners—sits in his decidedly 1950s West Village townhouse, a curvy, lighted jukebox in one corner, and a wax replica of a retro malt shop meal—fries, hamburger and ...

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 ...

Traveling to the Wildwoods is like going back in time. Neon reigns supreme, angled roofs are everywhere and there are a plethora of plastic palm trees. While it may be 2023 everywhere else, in the ...

Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! A sequel to the successful 2018 "Doo Wop Generations" special, “Doo Wop, Pop And Soul Generations” (MY MUSIC) celebrates ...

Doo Wop will take center stage this fall with more than half a dozen groups at American Music Theatre in Lancaster. The “Fall Doo Wop Cavalcade” on Sunday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. will include ...

*This, in part, is the story of Jay and the Americans, but it is much more than that. It is about the history of street music. Music is one of the only methods by which we mere mortals can truly time ...

The Doo Wop Project, comprised of Broadway veterans Charl Brown, Dwayne Cooper, John Dias, Russell Fischer & Dominic Nolfi, has released their new full-length album, Echoes of the Street. Check it out ...

The doo-wop group "The Cadillacs" pose for a portrait with their lead singer Earl Carroll (top) in circa 1954 in New York. They recorded a song called "Zoom." (James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs ...

Wildwood, New Jersey, is famous for its Doo Wop motels—mid-century treasures with neon signs, bold angles, and playful themes. Around 100 of these vintage properties remain, many restored to their ...

Courtesy of The Nation's Capital: Doo-Wop From The Street Corner To The Stage Filmmaker, DJ, and music scholar Beverly Lindsay-Johnson had an idea around a year ago: Create a pop-up museum to display ...

"Anybody who could sing could join in," says Jimmy Gallagher of the early doo-wop scene in Brooklyn. Auto-Tune? Doo-wop singers from the 1950s don't need no stinkin' Auto-Tune. "We didn't have that ...