It’s a warm December day when Jocko Marcellino, the longtime drummer in the classic rock act Sha Na Na, comes on the phone to talk about the band’s new holiday single, “Ugly Christmas Sweater,” though ...

Scott Simon, who dedicated 52 years playing the piano for doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai, California, at the age of 75 after a long battle with sinus cancer, his daughter Nina Simon ...

“Screamin’ Scott” Simon, who played piano in the early-rock revival group Sha Na Na for more than a half-century and co-wrote the song “Sandy” that John Travolta crooned in Grease, died September 5 of ...

“I didn’t know the 1950s were the good old days until we were past them,” cracks Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s principal pops conductor, Marvin Hamlisch. A multiple-award-winning composer, Hamlisch, 65 ...

It was 50 years ago when Sha Na Na opened for Jimi Hendrix at a music festival called Woodstock during the summer of 1969 — you might have heard of it. Sha Na Na co-founder and drummer Jocko ...

As the rubber-faced frontman for Sha Na Na, Jon “Bowzer” Bauman brought doo-wop to the hippies at Woodstock. During the days of disco, he took his ’50s schtick to TV. As the rubber-faced frontman for ...

Jocko Marcellino, an original member of Sha Na Na, has taken mask wearing seriously. So seriously, in fact, that the veteran of the “Sha Na Na” TV series and movie, “Grease,” has written a song about ...

Some fans of Sha Na Na can trace the 1950s tribute act back to Woodstock, when it preceded Jimi Hendrix onstage the final morning of the festival. Others best remember the group of greasers from their ...

DOWNTOWN ? Ken Lecheminant remembers the opening day of singer Pat Boone’s 1957 movie, “April Love.” Lecheminant was 16, and he watched the movie at Glendale’s Alex Theatre with his girlfriend. “It ...

Screamin’ Scott Simon, the dynamic keyboard player for rock and roll revivalists Sha Na Na for more than 50 years, has died. He was 75. Simon’s daughter Nina, an author, announced his death on ...