Doo Wop News

 
Doo-wop group drifts through the decades
Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
Decades after Thomas and the doo-wop and R&B group The Drifters' smash hit “There Goes My Baby” topped the charts in 1959, Thomas still is performing the tune, but now under the name Charlie Thomas' Drifters. The 75-year-old's home in Bowie is full of ...


 
Experience Legendary Doo Wop Artists for Free at the 7th Annual Philadelphia ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PHILADELPHIA, PA, May 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The 7th annual Philadelphia Doo Wop Festival returns to Penn's Landing on Sunday, September 9, 2012 from 12:00-6:00 pm To celebrate the music, there will be a spectacular line-up of local and ...

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Chuck Prophet: Tawdry, Tattered Glory
NPR
Chuck Prophet revels in their oddness as much as he revels in the retro coolness of shoo-be-doo-wop pop and the chime of a pedal-pushed guitar chord. On his latest album, Temple Beautiful, he injects healthy doses of both into sonic portraits of his ...

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Staten Island's Alzheimer's to host Doo Wop extravaganza
SILive.com
By Staten Island Advance STATEN ISLAND, NY -- The 4th annual Doo Wop Night hosted by the Staten Island Alzheimer's Foundation is being held on Sunday, June 10, at 2 pm at Memory Lane, the Foundation's headquarters at 789 Post Avenue, West Brighton, ...

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Monthly Elks Dance Helps Keep Doo Wop Alive
Patch.com
By Linda Telesco Fonzie and friends would have fit right in April 28 at the monthly music and dance night sponsored by the New Jersey Doo Wop and Street Corner and Harmony Association. Lights were low at the Elks Club as DJ Nick at Nite spun the sounds ...


 
NOLA.com
Aaron Neville working on doo-wop album with Keith Richards, Don Was
NOLA.com
His next album, which he's been working on in New York, where he now lives full time, sounds equally as promising: a collection of doo-wop music, co-produced by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and famed record producer Don Was.


 
A Doo Wop Celebration V concert coming to Akron Civic
Bedford Times Register
Entertainment Inc. for Doo Wop Celebration V June 2 at 4 pm at the historic Akron Civic Theatre in downtown Akron. Take a trip down memory lane with an all star lineup featuring the Charlie Thomas' Drifters "Save The Last Dance For Me" , Gene Chandler ...