The Doo Wop Experience Museum in Wildwood, New Jersey, celebrates the vibrant spirit of the 1950s and 60s through music, ...

A performance Friday night in Murrells Inlet will showcase your oldies favorites, as Pied Piper Youth Theater puts on the ...

Of all the roots in the headwaters of rock ‘n’ roll, it is by far the most basic: A blend of voices, a tune, a rhythm. Rap may need only a turntable and a microphone, but doo-wop needs only a ...

While doo-wop was largely overlooked as the musical styles it chronologically bumped up against were revived in the 1990s, the street-corner harmonies of groups such as the Chantels and Coasters ...

What’s in a name? At what point does pop-music nostalgia lead to possible misrepresentation? Those were key questions Friday ...

Doo Wop can be boiled down to a few points, according to the Doo Wop Preservation League. They include a “crazy high reader sign" (preferably with lots of neon), kidney-shaped pool with plastic ...

Doo Wop started out as a term to describe a subsection of rhythm and blues, which emphasized harmonies and often had nonsensical lyrics. The group The Turbans used the phrase “doo wop” in the ...

His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous ...

Cortez scored the first instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 with his high-energy electronic organ hit "The ...

aaron neville 2013 pr horizontal singing by sarah a friedman.jpg Aaron Neville demonstrates his affection for doo-wop on his new CD, 'My True Story,' released on Jan. 22 by Blue Note Records ...

Ah, doo-wop — has there ever been another musical genre quite like it? On the one hand, it was deceptively simple, with its moon-in-June love-song lyrics and minimal instrumentation (if any).

Doo-wop is both formal and unbridled, graceful and profane. It has a courtly discipline, an almost chamber-music-like strictness of form, yet it roils with raw, adolescent emotion.