"Do Wah Diddy Diddy," recorded a month earlier on June 11, 1964, moved Manfred Mann to the front lines of the British Invasion. Greenwich, ...

CLEAR your calendar for the evening of Feb. 25. It’s a winter Monday, anyway, which means you’ll have no excuse for missing the long-awaited arrival of “A Raisin in the Sun.&#8221… ...

What do the Jelly Beans’ “I Wanna Love Him So Bad,” The Raindrops’ “What a Guy,” Lesley Gore’s “Look of Love” and Darlene Love’s “(Today I Met) the Boy I’m Gonna Marry ...

The whole journey of “Do Wah Diddy Diddy,” a deliriously fun piece of horny-nonsense pop music, is basically the story of everything that was happening in pop music, rendered in miniature.

HOW TO DO A REAL CADENCE: Do Wah Diddy Diddy, which John and Russell decide to use as a marching cadence, was a song by The Exciters in late 1963. After Stripes, it became a popular cadence in the ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… ...