The doo-wop group "The Cadillacs" pose for a portrait with their lead singer Earl Carroll (top) in circa 1954 in New York. They recorded a song called "Zoom." (James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs ...

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

Thornton James “Pookie” Hudson, lead singer of the Spaniels doo-wop group best known for the 1954 hit “Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight,” died Jan. 14 of complications from cancer at his home in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Doo-wop legend Parris and the mayor at Thursday’s celebration. Credit: Allan Appel Photo Some 377 ...

NEW YORK — Cleve Duncan, whose soaring tenor voice as lead singer for the Penguins helped propel the 1954 doo-wop ballad ‘‘Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)’’ to rock ‘n’ roll immortality, died Nov. 7 in ...

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 ...

Thornton James "Pookie" Hudson, who wrote the 1954 hit "Good Night Sweetheart," died Tuesday of complications from cancer. He was 72. The song is a doo-wop classic, recorded by the Spaniels. Jon ...

Concert promoter Eddie Morelli continues his series of big-name doo-wop shows with Rockin' Holiday Doo Wop Special. This one stars Bill Pickney's Original Drifters (There Goes My Baby, Honey Love), ...

Deaths of note from around the world: Cleve Duncan, 78: Lead singer for the Penguins whose soaring tenor voice helped propel the 1954 doo-wop ballad “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” to rock ’n’ roll ...

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 ...

It's a half-hour before dawn and "Sincerely," the Moonglows' syrupy 1954 hit, is emanating incongruously from every corner of the Bakersfield College campus. Class is in session again for Mr. Doo-Wop.