Eugene Pitt, the lead singer of the Jive Five, a doo-wop group that reached the Top 10 in 1961 with “My True Story” and endured long past doo-wop’s heyday by mingling their sound with ascendant genres ...

Maurice Williams, who wrote and performed the shortest #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 with the 1960 doo-wop classic “Stay,” has died. Ron Henderson, Williams’ former bandmate in the ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new production about the 1960s doo-wop idol follows the usual rise-and-fall formula. Still, the songs are wonderful, as is the angel-voiced ensemble ...

Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about Virgil Johnson ...

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 ...

Terry “Buzzy” Johnson, an R&B legend known for his time with the group The Flamingos, has died. He was 86. No cause of death has been reported. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame posted about Johnson’s ...

Casting a retro-themed music video titled "Wandering" by an upcoming New York based artist. The project will be filmed in New York City. We will provide transportation costs, accommodations, and food.

They’re tough. They’re talented. And they’re from the ’hood. In The Queens Bees, three local high school girls become overnight sensations as a singing group in the 1960s. However, after they hit ...

Larry Chance, who became a legend of doo-wop with his Bronx group The Earls—also known as Larry Chance and the Earls—has passed away. He was 82. Chance died on Sept. 6 in a hospital in Orlando, ...