In early November 1983, Billy Joel landed his first and, at the time of this writing, only No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom with a song that he originally penned as a sort of “joke” at his own expense.

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Dion, a former teen idol, was deeply influenced by blues and country music. He had his first hit, "I Wonder Why," in 1958, with the doo-wop group The Belmonts. Originally broadcast in 2000. KUOW is ...

On Saturday, The Doo Wop Project, one of America’s premier vocal groups, will take the stage at the American Music Theatre in Lancaster. Comprised of Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway stars, the ...

*This, in part, is the story of Jay and the Americans, but it is much more than that. It is about the history of street music. Music is one of the only methods by which we mere mortals can truly time ...

We do not know anything but the basics of his years in Detroit: born here, attended Northwestern High, sang some doo-wop. We do know that Dave "Baby" Cortez had a groundbreaking No. 1 hit in the early ...

When Joe Palminteri was growing up in Brooklyn, doo-wop was all the rage. Vocal groups like The Flamingos, The Penguins and The Moonglows ruled the airwaves with hits like "I Only Have Eyes for You," ...

In June 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted a parody song online of a 1965 song by The Beach Boys in which the lyrics "bomb Iran" replaced "Barbara Ann" over video of B-2 fighter jets dropping ...

CLEAN-CUT, SMILING, wholesome—the Beach Boys ruled the American airwaves in the early 1960s. Their music was as sunny as a Southern California morning: easy to sing along to, but underlaid by complex ...

Sly Stone, the remarkable, eccentric frontman, singer, songwriter, and producer of his family group, Sly & the Family Stone, has died. He was 82. The musical icon had been battling lung disease, ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...