Imagine a steakhouse taking lamb chops off the menu in a bid to attract vegetarians. It would be laughable. But this is essentially what Majic radio (WMXJ, FM 102.7) did when it dumped Ken Held and ...

Lenny Dell has come a long way from the days when he and a few buddies would harmonize before music class at Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx. But Dell, now 72, says that the enthusiasm ...

TJ Lubinsky, the prolific producer of oldies-music extravaganzas that have anchored public TV pledge drives for the past 20 years, will offer stations a new twist on the format for March. With The ...

An era in New York radio ends Sunday night at 8 with the last broadcast of Don K. Reed’s “Doo-Wop Shop” on WCBS-FM (101. 1). “It’s sad to see it go,” said Reed, who has done the show since 1975 and ...

Back when Dion Dimucci harmonized his way to stardom from Belmont, Kenny Vance was singing doo-wop on streetcorners in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Vance also went on to fame and success, in the iconic 1960s ...

Terry Cook of Chester, founder of the Lead East convention is seen with his 1937 Bugatti Atlantic replica auto at his home in Chester. He founded the popular convention, a celebration of 1950's pop ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It’s difficult to fathom that five years have come and gone since the last time we chatted about Dejavu, the doo wop oldies group who, at this writing, are celebrating their ...

One night in 1956, Fred Parris, an Army private, was on guard duty at his base near Philadelphia. Parris, 18, was bored and homesick and thinking about his girl back home in New Haven, Conn. Before he ...