The Flamingos are one of the greatest, and most enduring, doo wop groups of them all, so it's a pleasure to report that Todd Baptist...

This is to draw readers' attention to Andrew Hickey's podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and the accompanying book wh...

[videocap from jazzandjazz] A few months ago I made my way to the village of Lemsford, in Hertfordshire, to meet Henri Harrison, former...

Just before Christmas I visited a friend in Scotland who is also a doo wop and rock'n'roll fan. I brought a magazine with me wh...

Does anyone else actually know or remember this group? Sometimes it seems they were only a thing in my dream: an unattainable vision (and...

This is to draw the reader's attention to Richard Herring's recent podcast featuring Graham Fellows, otherwise hapless middle-...

By way of commemorating ten (count 'em!) years of this blog I've uploaded the rare 1961 Vee-Jay release of the Flamingos...

A new biography of Ken Dodd, the first to be published since his death, has just come out, and it's a good 'un: streets, if n...

I am delighted to share the news that there is finally to be a book-length study of that enduring doo wop group the Flamingos - and for s...

A while ago I was contacted by Pete West, who played lead guitar in Alan Klein's group the Al Kline Five. Pete was in the lineup ...