A pair of new compilations trace the roots of reggae’s sublime songcraft back to the influence of 1950s crooners, with their close harmonies and swooning romance In late 1961, a young teenager called ...
NAME THAT tune? It is the opening of “At the Hop” by Danny and the Juniors. Arguably one of the greatest doo-wop hits of all time (No. 1 in 1958) it set the tone for the late 1950s, made a career for ...
Joan Wasser is mid-sentence when she suddenly pauses. A horrified gasp is quickly followed by a colourful expletive. Then another. And another. Rather than a response to The Ticket’s chosen line of ...
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 ...
“Harmony, harmony, harmony — no band, no nothing,” explains Charlie Thomas of the Drifters in director Brent Wilson’s Streetlight Harmonies, a new doc tracing the history of doo-wop (available on VOD) ...
Stephen Marley was born reggae royalty, but that’s not necessarily on your mind when he’s on the other end of a phone call, talking about his upcoming third LP, Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life, ...
In the 1950s, vocal groups in American cities began emphasizing harmony and the voice in backing music, building on existing traditions of small-group harmony. From there, a distinctive genre emerged, ...
A pair of new compilations trace the roots of reggae’s sublime songcraft back to the influence of 1950s crooners, with their close harmonies and swooning romance In late 1961, a young teenager called ...
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