I was sorry to learn yesterday of the death of Tony Randall. I had emailed him a couple of days ago to let him know about the Billy Shelton ...

Billy Shelton has described himself in interviews as "a prehistoric Spaniel". He wasn't with the celebrated doo wop group duri...

For readers in the UK the first episode of the 2015 BBC documentary series is temporarily available once more on BBC iplayer - but only ...

I don't normally give any advance indication of when I'll be posting next but I've decided to make an exception in this rare cas...

As mentioned in the previous post, Brent Wilson contacted Ben E King for the doo wop documentary Streetlight Harmonies but the singe...

  I have just watched Streetlight Harmonies, Brent Wilson's new documentary about doo wop, and it's well worth your attention wh...

Another story-in-song which made an impression on me as a child was The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp, written by ...

Having written about Honey in the previous post I'm now going to look at Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town by Kenny Rogers and t...

Like all right-thinking people I follow Alwyn Turner's online series Revive 45 on the Lion and Unicorn website, and I urge the more...

Update: Spencer Leigh's Could This Be Magic? has now been been published as an e-book and is available worldwide from UK amazon he...

Those who have read an earlier post about Donovan's 1972 concert to raise funds for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders may be interested in a r...

I have just heard Adam Thorpe's 2003 radio play Nought Happens Thus Twice, about Thomas Hardy's second marriage, to Florence Du...

A couple of weeks ago, during an interview with Joe Brown, Spencer Leigh let slip that he would be 75 on the first of February, the dat...

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-...