The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s doo-wop group the Five Satins, who wrote the hit "In the Still of the Night," died Jan 13. He was 85. The group made the announcement on its official Facebook ...

The enduring doo-wop hit was featured prominently in films 'Dirty Dancing' and 'The Irishman.' By Steve Knopper, Billboard Fred Parris, frontman for The Five Satins, the doo-wop group whose smash 1956 ...

For one special night of music and memories, three original rock 'n' roll doo-wop groups from the 1950s and early '60s will take the stage at New Bedford's Zeiterion Performing Arts Center at 7:30 ...

VENICE -- Even though he was a leading member of one of the first integrated groups of the doo-wop era, Norman Wright attached no special significance to performing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For ...

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 ...

SNOWMASS VILLAGE – Eons ago, when a young hairdresser in New Jersey had his eye on a singing career, his ears were attuned to the popular music of the day – the genial, harmonious style known as ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

EUSTIS – Doo-wop musicians learned how to make harmonious sounds on urban street corners in the 1950s. Now a cappella singing is back, thanks to TV shows such as “The Sing Off” and “Glee” and to ...