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Screamin’ Scott Simon, the dynamic keyboard player for rock and roll revivalists Sha Na Na for more than 50 years, has died. He was 75. Simon’s daughter Nina, an author, announced his death on ...
Simon joined Sha Na Na in April 1970, under the name "Screamin' Scott Simon". [4] He wrote numerous songs that have been recorded by the band and others over the years. Sha Na Na, who are known for covering 1950s Rock and Roll and doo-wop , appeared as a 1950s version of themselves in the 1978 film version of Grease .
The members of Sha Na Na during the TV series were Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (Lead vocals, backing vocals), Lennie Baker (Saxophone, lead vocals, backing vocals), Johnny Contardo (Lead vocals, backing vocals), Denny Greene (Lead vocals, backing vocals), Danny "Dirty Dan" McBride (Electric guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals) (left after third season), Jocko Marcellino (Lead vocals, backing vocals ...
The final lineup featured original members Donny York and Jocko Marcellino, and longtime member Screamin' Scott Simon, who joined in 1970. Everyone else from the original band and TV show had since departed. Sha Na Na released their last regular album in 2006, although they subsequently released compilation albums.
Simon's father was Jewish and his mother was Irish Catholic. [8] His father died when Scott was 16, [9] and his mother later married former minor league baseball player Ralph G. Newman, an American Civil War scholar and author who ran the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago. [10] Simon graduated from Nicholas Senn High School in 1970.
Sha Na Na. Jon Bauman – piano, vocals; Lennie Baker – bass guitar, vocals; Bruce Clarke – bass guitar, vocals; Elliot Cahn – rhythm guitar, vocals; Johnny Contando – vocals
A still of Simon onstage in <i>In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon</i> Credit - Courtesy of MGM+. I f you didn’t grow up with a well-worn copy of Sounds of Silence, Bookends, or Bridge ...
Marcellino continued to tour with Sha Na Na, along with co-founder Donny York and long-term member Screamin' Scott Simon. [5] Sha Na Na announced they would no longer tour on December 5, 2022. He also tours with his side rhythm and blues band "Jocko and the Rockets".