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.
When you think of Sha Na Na — the 43-year-old revue that pays tribute to 1950s rock 'n' roll with more than a hint of camp — you can't help but think of gold lame'. At Woodstock, while everyone else ...
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (AP) -- The gold lame varsity jackets still fit. Four decades after performing as the penultimate act at Woodstock (having been invited by Jimi Hendrix) and three decades after a ...
About 40 years ago, Jocko Marcellino was recruited to play football at Columbia University. But Marcellino's vision went beyond the gridiron. "I had an eye on Broadway," Marcellino says during a ...
Sha Na Na will perform at Newton Theatre on Friday, October 19. The group, featuring original members John “Jocko” Marcellino and Donny York, specializes in faithful recreations of the rock ‘n’ roll ...
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 ...
Their appearance at the Woodstock festival in 1969 might have gone against the grain of the "peace and love" generation, but the US group Sha Na Na started a rock 'n' roll revival craze which lasted ...
Screamin' Scott Simon of Sha Na Na on Sept. 24, 2010. Scott Simon, who dedicated 52 years playing the piano for doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai, California, at the age of 75 after a ...
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 ...
Sept. 7 (UPI) --Sha Na Na singer and pianist Screamin' Scott Simon has died at the age of 75, his daughter Nina Simon announced Friday. Nina said her dad died of sinus cancer Thursday. Simon had ...