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...Krokodiloes and the Radcliffe Pitches fill Sander’s Theatre with their signature classic a capella. Each group is the oldest of its kind at Harvard. There’s no better way to spend a romantic evening than watching these lovely ladies and charming reptilian songsters doo-wop, dance, and dazzle their audience. Friday, February 14 at 8:00 P.M. Tickets are $7 students / $10 regular and are available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617)-496-2222. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall...
...that skillfully mimics the era's perky pop ditties, and director Jack O'Brien has put together a slick, high-spirited production. Add to that a politically correct story line about a girl who fights to integrate the dance show, and you have an unbeatable combination: desegregation and doo-wop...
Shawn Stockman and Nathan Morris of the U.S. doo-wop quartet Boyz II Men did more than produce 20-year-old Yuki Koyanagi's latest CD, Intimacy. By executing a transpacific high five, they helped legitimize one of the strangest social trends in the land of the rising sun: Japanese who want to dress, act and sing as black as they...
...White Christmas" (1942), by The Drifters (1953), on "Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters/Rockin' & Driftin'." Berlin may have hated Elvis' version but, according to the liner notes for this double CD, he did approve the Drifters' doo-wop (or, rather, doot-doot) waxing when producer Jerry Wexler sent him an early copy. And why not? T he bass lead will rattle china three houses away, and McPhatter's natural falsetto manages to evoke both Billie Holiday and a child crazed by caffeine on Christmas morning. (The D's also did a nifty "Easter Parade...
...those readers who are improv comedy junkies, who take their a capella in pop or doo-wop style, or who just really like to support worthy causes: There’s an event with your name on it. This Saturday, Project HEALTH is holding its Fall Benefit Concert featuring the perenially crowd-pleasing Opportunes, the Pitches and Immediate Gratification Players...