Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! A sequel to the successful 2018 "Doo Wop Generations" special, “Doo Wop, Pop And Soul Generations” (MY MUSIC) celebrates ...

Decades before Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin made Puerto Rican music mainstream in American culture, there was an all-Puerto Rican doo-wop group that broke into the top music charts. And ...

DJ Bruce Morrow—Cousin Brucie to listeners—sits in his decidedly 1950s West Village townhouse, a curvy, lighted jukebox in one corner, and a wax replica of a retro malt shop meal—fries, hamburger and ...

*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 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The record-breaking PBS-TV music specials, 50 ...

It was the music that spawned – or at least made a generous contribution to – a generation. And now it's back. Described as barbershop harmony with beat, doo-wop's golden age in the 1950s was a thing ...

Get ready for The Doo Wop Project! Listen to the epic concert special. Ever wonder what modern musicians would sound like if they had lived in the Doo Wop era? Now you don't have to! In their epic ...

This post courtesy of Explore Brooklyn, an all-inclusive guide to the businesses, neighborhoods, and attractions that make Brooklyn great. For many, doo-wop music was and is the soundtrack of the city ...

With an overwhelming popularity among the younger generation, doo-wop became the music of choice for teenagers in the '50s. A quartet of kids from Toronto's St. Michaels' Choir School would embrace ...

During the early 1950s, when rock 'n' roll's history was beginning to come together, no single type of music sold better — or was more influential in binding teenagers together — as the harmony ...

Meet the supergroup of Broadway stars who transform hits from the American pop songbook. Meet the supergroup of Broadway stars, from smash hits Jersey Boys and Motown: The Musical, who deliver fresh ...