May 29, 2012

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Lincoln Center Out of Doors Presents She's Got the Power! A Girl Group Extravaganza

Holly Cara Price | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Baby Washington, Jeremy Chatzky, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Free, Ronnie Spector, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Chantels, Ellie Greenwich, The Delrons, Beverly Warren, Rock and Roll Music, Music News, Lesley Gore, The Crystals, New York City, La La Brooks, David Rubenstein Atrium, The Angels, The Exciters, New York Summer, Beatles, Damrosch Park Bandshell, Nyc Concerts, Arlene Smith, Ponderosa Stomp Foundation, Girl Groups, Sixties, Ronettes, Toni WIne, New York News

This Saturday July 30, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation presents a day of events intended to celebrate the girl group sounds of the 1960s.

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Women Who Rock: LA Stories from the Rock Hall of Fame's New Show

S.X. Rosenstock | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Jack White, Stevie Nicks, Billie Holiday, The B-52's, Britney Spears, Meg White, Buddy Holly, Mother Maybelle Carter, Mahalia Jackson, Phil Spector, The Supremes, Madonna, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Wanda Jackson, Ma Rainey, Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse, Grace Slick, Darlene Love, Terry Stewart, The Pixies, Bessie Smith, Ellie Greenwich, Lauren Onkey, Adele, Little Richard, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Shindig, Bruce Springsteen, David Letterman, Meredith Rutledge, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Los Angeles News

Wanda Jackson and Darlene Love are game-changers that allowed fans to reckon the authorship of the rock and roll genre with new clarity.

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James Tormé's "Love For Sale," Plus Conversations with Josh Groban, Darlene Love, and Yael Naim (Video)

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Rick Rubin, The Righteous Brothers, David Donatien, Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick, Homas Bloch, Lou Adler, Ellie Greenwich, Tina Turner, The Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, Josh Groban, Shelley Fabares, The Crystals, Bell Records, The Beatles, James Tormé, Shindig!, Stephane & Lionel Belmondo, Mel Tormé, Perez Hilton, Jack Nitzsche, Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Eric Legnini, Robert Johnson, Tom Waits, Elvis Presley, Darlene Love, Johnny Rivers, The Blossoms, Lester Sill, Debussy, Phil Ramone, Leader of the Pack, Ravel, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, The Spinners, Tété, Entertainment News

Jazz vocalist James Tormé -- son of The Velvet Fog, Mel Tormé -- debuts his new video "Love For Sale" here on HuffPost.

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HuffPost Exclusive: Jim Bianco "Sinners," Plus a Conversation with The Crystals' La La Brooks and PBS Premieres Rock, Pop & Doo Wop

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cotton Comes to Harlem, Melba Moore, Patty Duke, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Tina Turner, Diane Keaton, Isaac Hayes, The Crystals, Myrna Gerard, The Beatles, Blondie, Richard Nixon, Hair, Elvis Costello, Quincy Jones, Galt McDermott, B.B. King, The Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, Jack Nitzsche, Jim Croce, Ronnie Spector, Two Gentleman of Verona, Ashford & Simpson, Bobby Womack, Leslie Gore, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Razor & Tie, Tom Waits, La La Brooks, Bernadette Peters, Ossie Davis, Darlene Love, Brill Building, Cher, U2, The Blossoms, Tommy West, Valerie Simpson, Jim Bianco, The Neville Brothers, American Idol, Ray Charles, Barbara Austin, Dee Dee Kenniebrew, Jeff Barry, James Rado, Entertainment News

Presented here is an exclusive HuffPost premiere of the Jim Bianco single, "Sinners," which just might become your new favorite party anthem.

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A Love Story: Darlene Love, New Inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: B. B. King?S, Dionne Warwick, 1960?S, Little Steven Van Zandt, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Hit Records, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductions, David Letterman Show, Aretha Franklin, Monster Mash, Girl Groups, Leader of the Pack, He?S Sure the Boy I Love, Soul Music, Shindig, Christmas Spirit, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Danny Glover, Bobb B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, Today I Met the Boy I?M Going to Marry, Bill Medley, My Name Is Love: The Darlene Love Story, Wait ?Till My Bobby Gets Home, Lethal Weapon, The Crystals, Elvis Presley, Darlene Love, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), The Righteous Brothers, Johnny Rivers, Bobby ?Boris? Pickett, Cher, U2, Entertainment News, James Darren, Bergen PAC, Singing, He?S a Rebel, The Blossoms, David Letterman, Philles, Entertainment News

The 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced and the honorees include, finally (Let me hear you say Hallelujah! - I've been sayin...

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Best (Early) Christmas Ever: A Conversation With Rock 'n' Roll Legend Ronnie Spector

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

"We've had a love affair for like forty years, Keith [Richards] and I. I told him that it was too bad that I didn't marry him because that would have worked out better for me. Our kids would have had amazing hair, you know?"

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Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Ellie Greenwich beat Pat Benatar to the punch with the pixie slut haircut. Signaling that feminine power source, the union of opposites.

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Ellie Greenwich, Songwriter, Dead At 68

AP | NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ellie Greenwich Death, Ellie Greenwich Dies, Ellie Greenwich Dead, Ellie Greenwich, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Ellie Greenwich, who co-wrote some of pop music's most enduring songs, including "Chapel of Love," "Be My Baby" and "Leader of the Pa...

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Songwriting Legend Ellie Greenwich Gone at 68

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phil Spector, The Raindrops, Mike Stoller, Neil Sedaka, MGM Records, Aretha Franklin, Leiber & Stoller, Blondie, Atlantic Records, Verve Records, RCA Records, Ellie Greenwich, Cyndi Lauper, John Gluck Jr., Tasha Thomas, Jerry Leiber, Bert Berns, Neil Diamond, United Artists Records, Carole King, Jerry Wexler, Cynthia Weil, The Leader of the Pack, Barry Mann, Gerry Goffin, Red Bird Records, Tommy West, George Goldner, Mikey Harris, The Bottom Line, Jeff Barry, The Ronettes, Entertainment News

Ellie Greenwich became one of the U.S.'s top songwriters in the sixties, and she is most famous for having co-penned classics such as "Be My Baby" and "Chapel Of Love."

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