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Modern OG history: 2015. Doo Wops return this season. The password at the door of the Great Auditorium is “Shaboom shaboom.”

Posted in Great Auditorium Musical Event, Ocean Grove Musical Event, tagged on April 28, 2025| 2 Comments »

 

Saturday night, summer 2011. Doo Wops at the Great Auditorium. Paul Goldfinger aerial photo. Blogfinger.

 

Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net.

We got this from Shelly Belusar (CMA) who knows where to find these ancient stars and the young people who are filling in, sometimes with  startling and revelatory interpretations of this music, which always tries to answer the perennial question, “Why can’t I be a teenager in love?”   Or, a close second, “When do we get a slow dance?”

2015 Doo Wop lineup:

June 27– Jay Siegel’s Tokens, The Chantels, Cleveland Still’s &The Dubs, Vito Picone &The Elegants.

Sept. 5– Gene Chandler (The Duke of Earl), The Crystals, Lenny Coco & The Chimes, Bill Haley Jr. &The Comets.

 

Here’s a taste of what’s coming:   It’s the TOKENS:     Try to clap along. See if you have music in your soul.

 

THE DUBS:

 

 

THE TOKENS.   “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”   See comments.

 

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Guest DJ. Perry Young brings us Earl Lewis and the Channels, hitting those high notes.

Posted in Blogfinger Presents, tagged on June 26, 2022|

 

 

Perry Young of New Hampshire loves to visit Ocean Grove each year, and he used to love to hear his favorite Doo Wop group: Kenny Vance and the Planotones.

Now he sends us another group with the choreography of the day.  And he offers a comment–he always writes to me with paper and pen–no emails from New Hampshire.

“Hello Paul, I think Earl Lewis compares to Kenny on those high notes.     All the best, Perry.”

The falsetto parts were key to many of those groups of the ’50’s into the ’60’s.   Kenny Vance came along later and he was hitting  high notes until just a few years ago when he retired.*  But Johnny Maestro (with the Crests and Brooklyn Bridge) also did well with those parts.

Here’s a sample of Kenny Vance with the Planotones, performing “Lonely Way.”  *We hear (2022) that Kenny is back in the saddle again.  What a shame that he won’t be back in the GA.

 

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