Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are the biggest songwriters you've never heard of, penning over 70 chart hits and establishing ...

Sure, he’s most ardently remembered for his teen idol days in the late 1950s and beyond, both fronting the Belmonts and on ...

Doo-wop, one of my favorite genres of music, was beyond popular in the ... With the Crests, he sang lead on the 1950s and ...

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“My grandpa grew up singing and loving the music of the ’50s. He was the one who introduced me to doo-wop music. That’s what I listened to from the time I was 12 years old. That’s when I ...

These sad country songs are stone-cold classics. In the 1960s, heartbreak looked a little different than it does today: There were no breakups over text or email, no obsessively scrolling through ...

taking us from a pioneering use of a vocoder for a Stanley Kubrick soundtrack to a Grace Jones synth hit, via some early American Doo-wop.

Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the film by reliving the 1950's live at the historic Winter ... with musical arrangements by legendary doo-wop crooner Phil Burton (Human Nature).

Maurice Williams, the singer and songwriter best known for his seminal 1960 doo-wop hit “Stay,” died on Aug. 6. He was 86. Williams’ death was announced by the North Carolina Music Hall of ...

For me, the traditional songs I learned as a child from the 19th and early 20th century; gospel, doo wop, rhythm and blues songs — these were the sounds I liked and used as a freedom singer.

The Staple Singers, whose early 1960s protest soul had inspired Bob ... and gospel to contribute to the founding of soul music in the 1950s. He had a profound influence on a number of highly ...