For Black Music Month, Rhino Records releases a full-length video essay via YouTube and social media platforms highlighting the musical evolution of Black American music from Doo Wop to Hip-Hop, ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, vocal groups in American cities began emphasizing harmony and the voice in backing music, building on existing traditions of small-group harmony. From there, a distinctive genre emerged, ...

You’d need to have a tough heart not to appreciate doo-wop. If you have such a calcified ticker, no argument can convince you to hear the late 1950s doo-wop group the Cadets. Still, these talented, ...

The Penguins were an American doo-wop vocal group that was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1953. The group consisted of Cleve Duncan, Curtis Williams, Dexter Tisby, and Bruce Tate, and they ...

The incomparable Fred Parris of The Five Satins left us in the still of the night on January 13th. Can his memory trigger a new interest in doo-wop music? Fred wrote In the Still of the Night, ...

(Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)/(Photo by Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty Images) The critically acclaimed 1998 record was Hill's first and last studio album of her career. It included classics ...

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