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, ...

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 ...

THIS EVENING is the first of three free summer concerts that the Weekend section is sponsoring at the Carter Barron Amphitheatre. This week's program features doo-wop pioneers the Legendary Orioles, ...

Eugene Pitt, the lead singer of the Jive Five, a doo-wop group that reached the Top 10 in 1961 with “My True Story” and endured long past doo-wop’s heyday by mingling their sound with ascendant genres ...