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The State Theatre Center for the Arts has been known to have very popular entertainers and productions hosted throughout the past 90 years. The most notable names are jazz musicians Paul Whiteman and Glen Gray, The Dorsey Brothers, popular musicians Johnny Cash, Slim Whitman, Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray, Chubby Checker and the ...
Doo-wop (also spelled doowop and doo wop) is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in African-American communities during the 1940s, [2] mainly in the large cities of the United States, including New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. [3][4] It features vocal ...
The Crests are an American doo-wop group, formed by bass vocalist J.T. Carter in the mid 1950s. The group had several Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s on Coed Records . Their most popular song, " 16 Candles ", rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1959 selling over one million copies and earning a gold disc status ...
Maurice Williams, the frontman of the doo-wop group the Zodiacs and singer-songwriter behind their 1960 hit song "Stay," has died. He was 86. The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame announced ...
Randy Safuto and Christian Carrasco, one of the members of the Spanish doo-wop band The Earth Angels, during their participation in the festival of this genre at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Randy And The Rainbows with The Earth Angels doo-wop band. Randy & the Rainbows are an American doo-wop group ...
Jimmy Beaumont (born James Beaumont on October 21, 1940, in Pittsburgh) died in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on October 7, 2017, aged 76. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Until his death, Jimmy Beaumont performed with the Skyliners in their line-up of Nick Pociask, Frank Czuri , and Donna Groom (whose husband, Mark Groom, has been the group's drummer/conductor for ...
Lillian Leach (December 20, 1936 – April 26, 2013), also known by her married name, Lillian Leach Boyd, was an American singer who performed lead vocals with the Bronx -based doo-wop group the Mellows. She was noted for her mellifluous voice and wistful singing style. The Mellows recorded several hit songs in the 1950s, including "Smoke From ...
Lee Andrews and the Hearts were an American doo-wop quintet from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formed in 1953. [1] They recorded on the Gotham, Rainbow, Mainline, Chess, United Artists, Grand and Gowen labels. Managed by Kae Williams, in 1957 and 1958 they had their three biggest hits, "Tear Drops", "Long Lonely Nights" and "Try ...