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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 26, 1980: When Sha Na Na lead singer Johnny Contardo looked out at the crowd of about 3,000 fans gathered for his band’s show at the Scranton Catholic Youth Center, he couldn’t quite contain his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. Of all the acts that graced the Woodstock stage that weekend in August 50 years ago, perhaps ...

There is little left on Sha Na Na’s bucket list. The band, which has melded rock n’ roll and doo-wop for the last 44 years, played Woodstock, were featured in the film ‘Grease,’ hosted a popular ...

Jocko Marcellino readily acknowledges he has lived a charmed life. The veteran singer and drummer was a 19-year-old Columbia University student when his then-brand-new band, Sha Na Na, performed ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

How do you get to Woodstock after only eight or so gigs? If you’re Sha Na Na you impress Jimi Hendrix with your retro rock and R&B act, and he tells the festival organizers to put you on the bill. It ...

The death toll of music-world notables in 2016 continued Friday, with the announcement of the death of Lennie Baker, a longtime member of the rock-and-doo-wop band Sha Na Na. He was 69. His nephew, ...