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The Pittsburgh Doo Wop Big Band will headline the Panther Groove Festival, set for Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murrysville.
Sharon Osbourne said she plans to reveal the name of the band she disinvited from Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning farewell concert. The charity event, which takes place July 5 in Birmingham, ...
This year’s show – Doo-Wop & Pop – will feature three of Pittsburgh’s iconic musical talents: Chris Ruggiero, Jimmie Ross and Pure Gold.
Doo Wop will take center stage this fall with more than half a dozen groups at American Music Theatre in Lancaster. The “Fall Doo Wop Cavalcade” on Sunday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. will ...
Tommy Hunt, a Pittsburgh native, legendary soul singer and member of the iconic group The Flamingos, has died. He was 91.
He died in Pittsburgh Wednesday. Known for his special vocal style and heartfelt lyrics, Christie was a voice of early pop and doo-wop during the 1960s, according to his obituary.
While it may be 2023 everywhere else, in the Wildwoods it still looks like the 1950s and ‘60s. The Wildwoods are the Doo Wop capital of the world and they’re proud of it.
Larry Chance, a doo-wop singer whose hits with the Earls included “Remember Then,” “Life Is But a Dream” and “Never,” died Sept. 6, his daughter said. He was 82.
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). On ...
Two members of the Puerto Rican doo-wop group The Eternals, popular in the late 1950s with Billboard chart hit, talk of the group's contributions to the genre.