The Crystals News

It was a big week for Vegas this week with the opening of final component of the massive CityCenter , the Aria Resort and Casino .

If Stanley Kubrick and the Beastie Boys ever got together and decided to design an iPod dock, it would probably look a lot like the latest monolithic, instant-party machine to hit the market.

Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music Publishing have struck an historic licensing deal to release, through Sony's Legacy Recordings, the monumental catalog of Phil Spector's Philles Records recordings from a range of artists including the Ronettes, the Crystals, Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, Lenny Bruce and more.

Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Music Publishing have inked a licensing pact to release the catalog of Phil Spector's '60s imprint Philles Records.

Flash back to the 1960s and spend some time with three of rock-n-roll's first female super groups.

SONIC REDUCER Shop girls and Shop Assistants, the Jesus and Mary Chain and Mary Wells, "Da Doo Ron Ron" and Ronettes up-dos. All twirl, as if at a punk-rock sock-hop, around the rugged, vulnerable Vivian Girls.

Girard was replaced by Delores Brooks in 1962. The group was created by Alston's uncle, Benny Wells, when he recruited the singers to record a series of pop singles.

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Started by playing 10 from the hundreds of songs co-written by Ellie Greenwich, the prolific Brill Building songwriter who died this week at age 68.

Even if you don't know the name Ellie Greenwich, you do know her songs. The songwriter wrote such hits as "Chapel of Love", "Do Wah Ditty", "Be My Baby" and produced several of Neil Diamond's early works.

Even if you don't know the name Ellie Greenwich, you do know her songs. The songwriter wrote such hits as "Chapel of Love", "Do Wah Ditty", "Be My Baby" and produced several of Neil Diamond's early works.

Even if you don't know the name Ellie Greenwich, you do know her songs. The songwriter wrote such hits as "Chapel of Love", "Do Wah Ditty", "Be My Baby" and produced several of Neil Diamond's early works.

For almost 40 years, Brooklyn-born and Juilliard-trained Jon Bauman has been slicking back his hair, rolling up his T-shirt sleeves and becoming his alter ego "Bowzer." From 1970 to 1983, he was the most-recognizable member of Sha Na Na, the highly successful nostalgia act that mixed the rock 'n' roll sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s with a ...

For almost 40 years, Brooklyn-born and Juilliard-trained Jon Bauman has been slicking back his hair, rolling up his T-shirt sleeves and becoming his alter ego "Bowzer." From 1970 to 1983, he was the most-recognizable member of Sha Na Na, the highly successful nostalgia act that mixed the rock 'n' roll sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s with a ...

For almost 40 years, Brooklyn-born and Juilliard-trained Jon Bauman has been slicking back his hair, rolling up his T-shirt sleeves and becoming his alter ego "Bowzer." From 1970 to 1983, he was the most-recognizable member of Sha Na Na, the highly successful nostalgia act that mixed the rock 'n' roll sounds of the late 1950s and early 1960s with a ...

Glen Campbell is a music legend who is reintroducing himself to a new generation with an album that includes covers of everybody from Tom Petty to U2 and Green Day.

But the big news is on page three. Next weekend in Porterfield, a tiny place on my cycling route, there's a Cruisin' Oldies Concert & Car Show.

Her voice can be heard on songs that are considered pop classics, and she's performed with some of the biggest recording stars of the 20th century - yet there have been times when Darlene Love has wondered about what could have been.

The Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts will resonate with the sounds of classic rock 'n' roll doo-wop as the 1960s music stars The Crystals and the Doo-Wop Daddies take the stage Saturday, July 18.

The following is an excerpt from Howard Massey's Behind The Glass Volume II, featuring more than 40 all-new, exclusive in-depth interviews with many of the world's top producers and engineers, with Foreword written by George Massenburg.