His career began in 1957, when he and some friends from the Bronx formed the vocal group that would become the Earls. He recorded his last song 65 years later. By Sam Roberts Larry Chance, whose Bronx ...

Eugene Pitt, the lead singer of the Jive Five, a doo-wop group that reached the Top 10 in 1961 with “My True Story” and endured long past doo-wop’s heyday by mingling their sound with ascendant genres ...

If anything is definitively said regarding hip-hop, it is usually that it is an art form of endless competition. In terms of rap music specifically, its competitive nature is often depicted as a ...