The Cadillacs: Speedo's Back In Town
Interview by Bill Millar, Record Mirror, February 1972
EARL CARROLL is still a rocker. The other Coasters wear Afros but Mr. Earl's hair is black, shiny and slickered back. Thumbing through a copy of ...

The Persuasions: Street Corner Symphony
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972
THE PERSUASIONS ceased to be a pleasant, though strange, acappella curiosity with their last album, We Came to Play. That album took a more pop stance ...

Dion & the Belmonts: Reunion; The Belmonts: Cigars, Acapella, Candy; Dion's Greatest Hits
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, March 1973
DION WAS the original punk. Stand him up next to his contemporary male teen idols – Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, Bobby Rydell, Adam ...

Dion & the Belmonts: Reunion; The Belmonts: Cigars, Acapella, Candy; Dion's Greatest Hits
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, June 1973
YEARS AGO, Mad ran a feature on "What Kind of Parents Will Today's Teenagers Make?" It depicted a pair of graying, pot-bellied rockers in leathers, levis ...

The Persuasions: Big Legs 'n' Bad Asses
Profile and Interview by Andrew Tyler, NME, October 1973
WE'RE BACKSTAGE at Birmingham's Odeon, logjammed into a feeble grey van – a constable and sergeant at the controls – and now we're going to burrow ...

The Marcels: Bom Baba Bom
Retrospective by Penny Reel, Let It Rock, February 1975
1961. Rock'n'roll was dead and buried. The Beatles weren't even a twinkle in Epstein's eye. Pop was Kenny Ball and Anne Shelton, Acker Bilk and Bobby ...

Doo-wop: Still White & Alright
Retrospective by Bill Millar, Let It Rock, May 1975
FIRST, A BOOK. Despite the comparatively recent growth industry in rock'n'roll literature, we still don't have a half-way decent encyclopaedia worthy of the name. The best ...

The Darts: Sheer Dart attack
Profile by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, October 1977
DOO-WOP was a term applied to the singing style of American R 'n' B vocal groups of the Fifties, originating in the fact that the harmony ...

The Darts: Getting To The Point With The Darts
Profile by John Tobler, ZigZag, December 1977
THIS IS GOING to be a two part feature. This is the first part, as the more astute among you have probably already worked out, and ...

The Prisonaires: Five Beats Behind Bars
Retrospective by Martin Hawkins, Melody Maker, January 1978
With doo-wop increasing in popularity, MARTIN HAWKINS reveals the 'inside' story of the Prisonaires, one of the South's finest vocal harmony groups. ...

Doo-wop: At The Hop
Retrospective by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1982
White vocal groups of the Fifties embraced a variety of styles and sounds, ranging from adult pop groups (the Ames Brothers, the Four Aces, the Hilltoppers), ...

The Danleers
Sleevenotes by Pete Grendysa, Bear Family, 1991
THE AMERICAN RHYTHM & blues vocal group was a development of the Pop groups that enjoyed heavy popularity from the 1910's into the 1950's. When you ...

The Del Vikings
Retrospective by Pete Grendysa, Goldmine, February 1992
THE GOLDEN DREAM of rock 'n' roll goes like this: a few guys or girls get together, work out some songs, are discovered and recorded, and ...

The Cadillacs
Sleevenotes by Pete Grendysa, Bear Family, 1995
IN JANUARY, 1956, a skinny and bespectacled 16-year old laid down his dollar and got 11 cents change and a shiny new 45rpm record (resplendent in ...

The Flamingos
Sleevenotes by Pete Grendysa, MCA Records, 1997
THEY DIDN'T ROCK; they didn't roll. Their singing had nothing of the street corner or local school yard about it. With roots in a little-known religious ...

Shep & The Limelites
Sleevenotes by Pete Grendysa, Collectables, 1999
ON A COLD JANUARY NIGHT in 1970, a journey of thousands of miles finally came to an end. It was just another crime statistic in New ...

The Fiestas
Sleevenotes by Pete Grendysa, Collectables, 2000
DURING THE HEIGHT of the vocal group era, groups could be found singing on every streetcorner, hoping to be discovered and make that one big hit ...

Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Sleevenotes by Gene Sculatti, Collector's Choice Music, August 2007
"I fell in love with the man's voice. I toured with the group and watched Clyde and listened; finally I got a chance to join the ...

Frankie Lymon: Rock 'N' Roll
Sleevenotes by Gene Sculatti, Collector's Choice Music, July 2008
"I WAS 12 years old when I first heard Frankie Lymon singing 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love' on my grandmother's radio," wrote Ronnie Spector in ...