Manfred Mann had begun life as an R&B and jazz-inflected group. To that point, they'd notched U.K. hits with original tunes, including "5-4-3-2-1," but nothing on this scale."It hadn't started off ...

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.

That quote above is taken from the 1964 song “5-4-3-2-1,” the breakthrough single by Manfred Mann, the British pop band named after their keyboardist that would also score with “Do Wah Diddy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do Wah Diddy Illuminated Very Little Theatre ends its 85th season paying tribute to pop legend Ellie Greenwich. Theater by Anna Grace Posted on 08/07/2014. ... The play blurs the line between song and ...

Diddy's defense team further accused CNN of "covering the time stamp and then changing the video sequence. It also includes speeding up the video to make it falsely appear that the actions 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.… ...