How about a two-hour blast from the past? Hits from the late 1950s and early 1960s will be performed live — mostly by their original singers or heritage groups — in Auburndale on Saturday, when Holy ...
Imagine a steakhouse taking lamb chops off the menu in a bid to attract vegetarians. It would be laughable. But this is essentially what Majic radio (WMXJ, FM 102.7) did when it dumped Ken Held and ...
Doo-wop oldies music might not come to mind when someone thinks of a hot musical genre. But consider this: In the next six weeks, starting today with the Rock and Roll Superstar Explosion II in ...
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 ...
An era in New York radio ends Sunday night at 8 with the last broadcast of Don K. Reed’s “Doo-Wop Shop” on WCBS-FM (101. 1). “It’s sad to see it go,” said Reed, who has done the show since 1975 and ...
It's a unique pleasure to be recognized as a credit to your profession. And that pleasure is enhanced if you use it to improve the lives of others. So it is with the doo wop troupe the Tune Weavers.
One night in 1956, Fred Parris, an Army private, was on guard duty at his base near Philadelphia. Parris, 18, was bored and homesick and thinking about his girl back home in New Haven, Conn. Before he ...
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 ...
Jake DeRose of the Landmark Theatre just sent out the downtown Syracuse theater's updated calendar. I've already reported about the shows Sept. 26 and Nov. 14 featuring Ryan Adams and the Cardinals ...