“I didn’t know the 1950s were the good old days until we were past them,” cracks Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s principal pops conductor, Marvin Hamlisch. A multiple-award-winning composer, Hamlisch, 65 ...
Of all the acts that graced the Woodstock stage that weekend in August 50 years ago, perhaps the most unlikely was Sha Na Na, a group of Columbia University students who previously sang together in ...
Some fans of Sha Na Na can trace the 1950s tribute act back to Woodstock, when it preceded Jimi Hendrix onstage the final morning of the festival. Others best remember the group of greasers from their ...
Nothing about Sha Na Na’s rise to rock and roll fame was predictable. Born out of an a capella ensemble at Columbia University that sang popular ‘50s tunes, the group eventually picked up instruments ...
Leonard “Lennie” Baker, a member of the band Sha Na Na, died Wednesday in Weymouth, Mass., his nephew David Baker confirmed Friday in an obituary on the website of a local funeral home. He was 69.
Dennis Greene, a founding member of the rock and roll/doo-wop group Sha Na Na and former Columbia Pictures exec, died Saturday at a hospital in Dayton, Ohio. He was 66. According to the LA Times, ...
There’s life after Woodstock for Sha Na Na, the doo-wop-fueled classic rock ‘n’ roll band led by singer, drummer and longtime La Jolla resident Jocko Marcellino. The group, which also features San ...
It’s a warm December day when Jocko Marcellino, the longtime drummer in the classic rock act Sha Na Na, comes on the phone to talk about the band’s new holiday single, “Ugly Christmas Sweater,” though ...
NEW YORK — Dennis Greene, a founding member of Sha Na Na, a band that became famous in the 1970s for its nostalgic and comedic approach to the rock ’n’ roll of the 1950s, died Saturday at a hospital ...
The power didn't cut out when Sha Na Na performed immediately before Jimi Hendrix at the conclusion of the famously rain-soaked Woodstock festival in August 1969 in Bethel, N.Y. But the Wurlitzer ...
A law professor who first found fame as an original member of the band Sha Na Na has died. Frederick “Dennis” Greene, a professor at the University of Dayton School of Law, died on Sept. 5 after being ...