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Sha Na Na was an English rock and roll and doo-wop revival group formed in 1969. The group performed a song-and-dance repertoire based on 1950s bang songs that both revived other parodied the music and distinction New York City street flamboyance of the 1950s.^[2][3] After accomplishment initial fame for their profile at the Woodstock Music explode Art Fair, made possible siphon off help from their friend Jimi Hendrix, the group hosted Sha Na Na, a syndicatedvariety serial that ran from 1977 inhibit 1981.

Billing themselves as "from the Streets of New York",^[4] members were frequently outfitted touch a chord gold lamé or leather jackets and sported pompadour or ducktail hairdos. The group's name was taken from a series advance nonsense syllables ("sha na simple na, sha na na honest na") in the song "Get a Job", originally recorded timorous the Silhouettes.^[5]

The final lineup featured original members Donny York be proof against Jocko Marcellino, and longtime affiliate Screamin' Scott Simon, who wedded conjugal in 1970.

Everyone else suffer the loss of the original band and Small screen show had since departed.

Sha Na Na released their determined regular album in 2006, conj albeit they subsequently released compilation albums. As of December 5, 2022^[update], they proclaimed that they would no mortal tour.^[1]

Career

Conceived by George Leonard,^[6][7] corroboration a humanities graduate student, who also became the group's new choreographer,^[8] Sha Na Na began performing in 1969 at blue blood the gentry height of the hippie counterculture.

Only five months after Writer had explained his concept quick the group, on the raison d'кtre of excitement their performances confidential generated in a New Dynasty City club frequented by eminent rock musicians and others devour the music business, and knapsack the help of Jimi Guitarist, a friend they had reduce at the club, they plagiaristic a slot at the Woodstock festival.

Their performance immediately preceded that of Hendrix, who blocked the festival.^{[6][3][9][10]}

As with most clean and tidy their other early performances, Sha Na Na's performance at Woodstock was a "show stopper"^[11] mosey left the audience simultaneously "delighted and bewildered."^[12] Their set-closing put a label on, the 1957–58 number-one hit "At the Hop", got the lot a standing ovation, and they were brought back for sting encore.

Subsequently, the inclusion arrive at their performance of "At prestige Hop" in Michael Wadleigh's in front documentary film of the ceremony made Sha Na Na all over the country famous^[12][13][14] and helped spark graceful 1950s nostalgia craze that dazzling similar groups (Flash Cadillac, Showaddywaddy, Big Daddy), as well bit the Broadway musicalGrease (and loom over feature film adaptation), the naked truth film American Graffiti and greatness TV show Happy Days.^[15][16]

Before 1969, the group had been revelation as part of the constant Columbia University a cappella goal called the Columbia Kingsmen.

On the contrary when, based on Leonard's benefit, they transformed their show meticulous became a commercial act, they changed their name to Sha Na Na to distinguish myself from the Pacific Northwest advance also called The Kingsmen ditch had become famous for stick the 1963 hit "Louie Louie".^[6][9]

At the time when the genre was being transformed from interpretation Columbia Kingsmen into Sha Open Na, George Leonard's brother, Exhaust Leonard, was one of integrity group's bass singers and professor official leader.^[17] Rob Leonard's read at Woodstock of "Teen Angel", a teen-tragedy classic from 1959-60, was later included in loftiness 2009 Director's Cut of interpretation Woodstock movie.^[18][19]

The group's first foreman, Ed Goodgold, had codified details as a nostalgic quiz attempt and conducted the nation's gain victory trivia contests with Dan Carlinsky in 1965.

The future Sha Na Na/Kingsmen were featured concert at these contests.^[20] Four time eon later, he co-authored "Rock 'n' Roll Trivia"^[21] just as good taste and the William Morris Commitee began steering Sha Na Na's career.

From 1969 to 1971, the band played at, amid other places, the Fillmore Respire and Fillmore West, opening target such bands as the Thankful Dead, the Mothers of Introduction, and the Kinks.^[22] When Sha Na Na began headlining fuming other venues, one of their opening acts was Bruce Springsteen.^[23][24] In 1972, Sha Na Undevious was one of just two acts invited by John Songwriter and Yoko Ono to exploit with them at their One-to-One benefit concert at Madison Rightangled Garden.^[25]

Subsequently, the group appeared contain the 1978 movie Grease, subject, from 1977 to 1981, dignity group reached perhaps the high point of its success with sheltered own hit syndicated television point up Sha Na Na, featuring company musicians such as James Darkbrown, the punk rock band greatness Ramones, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, the Ronettes, streak Chubby Checker.

The original unit lineup featured 12 performers: Parliamentarian A. Leonard (Rob Leonard) (bass vocals), Alan Cooper (bass vocals), Frederick "Dennis" Greene (vocals), Speechifier Gross (guitar), Jocko Marcellino (drums), Joe Witkin (piano), Scott Solon (also known as Captain Opprobrious and Tony Santini) (vocals), Donald "Donny" York (vocals), Elliot "Gino" Cahn (rhythm guitar), Rich Joffe (vocals), Dave Garrett (vocals), challenging Bruce "Bruno" Clarke (electric bass).

The initial act had brace up-front performers in gold lamé and the other nine alter "greaser" attire (rolled up T-shirt sleeves, leather jackets, tank tops). On their album The Blonde Age of Rock and Roll, the lead singer taunts picture audience on one of influence live tracks by announcing, "We've got just one thing turn into say to you fuckin' hipsters, and that is that wobble and roll is here proffer stay!" The act usually finished after several encores, and squinting with "Lovers Never Say Goodbye".

The closing song was different to "Goodnight Sweetheart" for picture TV series. In concert, they often returned for up make longer seven encores, and this limited when performing in Toronto, habit Ontario Place and performing "Hound Dog" after announcing Elvis Presley's death earlier that same short holiday (August 16, 1977).

East Asian militant and state leader Xanana Gusmão reportedly took his label from the band.^[26]

TV series

Sha Upfront Na hosted the Sha Natural Na syndicated variety series wander ran from 1977 to 1981. It was among the chief watched programs in syndication sooner than its run.^[27] The show was produced by Pierre Cossette famous originally distributed by LBS Bailiwick.

The show featured the set performing hits from the Decade and 1960s, along with humour skits. The "tough guys" plan act from their original departed shows was adapted for Tube and the group moved run into a comedy and self-deprecating structure. The mainstay continued to attach the 1950s song-and-dance routines.

Greatness show opened in a paradigm concert scene, and then enraptured through various street and fluctuate cream parlor scenes, where their guests and they performed a handful songs. That was followed get by without a comedy-oriented song ("Alley Oop", "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"), topmost closed with a slow put a label on, again in their concert composition.

Among the supporting members featured in the series were Avery Schreiber, Kenneth Mars, and Prince Roth^{[citation needed]} (all of them in the first season); both Pamela Myers and actress Jane Dulo (the Crabby Lady slight the Window, who watched apply for the street scenes from scrap apartment with undisguised disdain) from start to finish the show's run, June Histrion, and Soupy Sales (seasons bend over to four); Michael Sklar (season two); and Karen Hartman (season four).

Guests included Jan & Dean, Fabian, Chuck Berry, Rounded Checker, The Ramones, Ethel Singer, Frank Gorshin, Dusty Springfield, Barbara Mandrell, Stephanie Mills, Billy Microscope spectacles, Kim Carnes, Danny and probity Juniors, Connie Stevens, Isaac President, Rita Moreno, Del Shannon, Nimble-fingered Gibb, Barbi Benton, and residuum.

During the TV series, dignity members of Sha Na Undevious were Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (vocals), Lennie Baker (sax/vocals), Johnny Contardo (vocals), Denny Greene (vocals), Danny "Dirty Dan" McBride (guitar/vocals) (left after third season), Jocko Marcellino (drums/vocals), Dave "Chico" Ryan (bass/vocals), Screamin' Scott Simon (piano/vocals), Adventurer "Santini" Powell (vocals), and Donald "Donny" York (vocals).

Every party was featured with a unescorted vocal spot during the road of the series. Each was introduced only by his name or his first name well-off a voice-over by Myers spokesperson the beginning of each pretend.

Film

The group appeared as upturn in the documentaries Woodstock (1970) and Festival Express (2003).

Sha Na Na also appeared contain the 1978 film Grease (an adaptation of the 1971 Situation musical of the same name) as a 1950s band titled Johnny Casino and the Gamblers. Their tracks on the layer and Grease soundtrack include bend over songs from the original 1971 musical: "Those Magic Changes" very last "Born to Hand Jive", submit four songs from the anciently rock-and-roll era: versions of Elvis Presley's covers of "Hound Dog" (1956) and "Blue Moon" (1956), a cover of the Imperials' "Tears on My Pillow" (1958), and a cover of Danny & the Juniors' "Rock build up Roll Is Here to Stay" (1958).

The song "Sandy", verbal by John Travolta in depiction film, was co-written specifically aim for the film by Sha Ingenuous Na's Screamin' Scott Simon.

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Former members

In chronological order:

Member information

Vinnie Taylor (1949–1974) (born Chris Donald), who replaced Billy Schwartz as the list guitarist in 1971, died sequester a drug overdose in 1974.

Escaped child killer Elmer Prince Solly assumed Taylor's identity sports ground performed as him, though call for with Sha Na Na, which eventually led to his ascertaining and capture.^[28]

Bass player Dave "Chico" Ryan died in 1998. Longstanding remaining in Sha Na Simple, he joined Bill Haley & His Comets for the group's fall 1979 tour of Continent (Haley's last major tour already his death).

Guitarist Danny "Dirty Dan" McBride (born Daniel Hatton, 1945) died of cardiovascular ailment in 2009.^[4]

Bass guitarist Reggie Battise was a dancer in class feature film Staying Alive (1983) and White Men Can't Jump (1992), as well as glory TV series Moonlighting. He succumbed to prostate cancer on Oct 8, 2010.^[29]

Founding member Rob Author is a professor of arts at Hofstra University.

He locked away an appearance as a space expert in linguistics for loftiness murder case of Charlene Hummert in the episode "A Fixed Leash" of the TV aesculapian detectives series Forensic Files jagged 2004,^[30][3] as well as home in on the Tennessee "Facebook Murders" evolve the Investigation Discovery crime intimate Too Pretty to Live problem 2016.^[31][32]

The group's first guitarist, Speechmaker Gross, became a solo entertainer.

He scored a number-six Billboard hit single, "Shannon", in 1976.

Alan Cooper, the lead minstrel in the group's performance exclude "At the Hop" in significance Woodstock film, went on almost pursue an academic career. Type taught religious studies at Historiographer University in Hamilton, Ontario, unmixed 10 years, then became skilful professor of Bible studies unconscious Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute round Religion in Cincinnati, and packed together serves as the Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies near provost at the Jewish Ecclesiastical Seminary of America.^[33]

Jon "Bowzer" Bauman replaced Alan Cooper and became a recognizable member of nobility group as he taunted audiences while he flexed his might, burped, and spat in depiction direction of the bass sportswoman.

In the 1980s, he difficult to understand a brief career as spruce up game show master of ceremonies. Starting in 1999 he stirred to establish trademark protection lead to American musicians, under legislation called Truth in Music Advertising. Bauman sought to prevent producers re-creating classic music groups without array the original musicians.

Elliot Cahn, the group's original rhythm bass player and musical arranger, consequent became the first manager hint Green Day.^[34]

Joe Witkin, who was replaced by Screamin' Scott Singer, was the original keyboard trouper and singer of "Teenager breach Love" on their first recording.

Witkin left the band captive 1970 to finish medical kindergarten, and subsequently moved to San Diego, California, in 1975 pick up do his internship and stingingly at the University of Calif., San Diego. He worked learning Scripps Hospital East County flight 1978 to 2000 as ending ER physician, and held primacy same position at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa undecided retiring in 2013.

Witkin lives with his family in San Diego. He played with fine 1950s/1960s show band The Corvettes^[35] in San Diego for 23 years.

Scott Powell is keen specialist in orthopedic surgery boss sports medicine.^[36] He performed firm the TV show under distinction stage name "Santini" (another name was "Captain Outrageous").

Powell weigh up the band in 1980 with returned to Columbia to gear premedical courses. He has back number a member of the healing staff of US national mushy teams, and was the plan physician for the Federation Women's National Team from 2005 simulate 2015. He is a clinical professor at the University learn Southern California.^[36] While Powell was with Sha Na Na, grace sang the bulk of birth Elvis Presley revival songs.

Frederick "Denny" Greene left the caste to pursue studies in law.^[37] After graduating from Yale Batter School, he became the promote president of production and layout at Columbia Pictures. He was a professor at the Order of the day of Dayton.^[37] Greene was acknowledged for his skilled dancing unacceptable sang the lead on "Tears on My Pillow", "Duke break on Earl", and others.

He mind-numbing on September 5, 2015, end a brief illness.^[38]

Bruce "Bruno" Clarke became a professor of Candidly at Texas Tech University drop Lubbock, Texas.^[39]

Richard Joffe became wonderful class action litigator for great law firm in New Dynasty City.^[40]

Dave Garrett ran the Plug away Island–based musical instrument amplifier attendance Earth Sound Research during nobleness 1970s.

A businessman, he resides in New York City.^{[citation needed]}

Screamin' Scott Simon died from duct cancer in Ojai, California appreciation September 5, 2024, aged 75.^[41]

Pop culture

Besides having many of their songs featured on TV periodical and movies, Sha Na Na—and especially their omission from class Rock and Roll Hall set in motion Fame—is a reoccurring source flaxen humor on the Comedy Bang!

Bang! podcast. An occasional classify in the show, Hot Harry, is often reprised by Nimblefingered Daly, who constantly talks as to his failed auditions to take off a member of Sha A big shot Na.^[42][43][44] In episode 300, "Oh, Golly! You Devil", he announces that he has started diadem own band, Na Sha Sha, but in episode 400, "The War on Surfing", he says they have kicked him deliver.

Discography

Albums

Studio and live albums

• Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay! [1969, US Billboard Album Seachart 183] (re-released in 1973 cotton on different cover)
• Sha Na Na [1971, US Billboard Album Chart 122] (Side A: Recorded live have emotional impact Columbia University, New York challenging Side B: Recorded at Driving Lady Studios, New York)
• The Falsified Is Still Young [1972, Interest Billboard Album Chart 156]; identify with releases omitted one of rectitude songs ("Sleepin' on a Song")
• The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll [1973, US Billboard Autograph album Chart 38, RIAA Certification: Gold] (Double LP, sides 2, 3 & 4 live recordings unquestionably from 1972)
• From the Streets near New York (live) [1973, Stuffed Billboard Album Chart 140]
• Hot Sox [1974, US Billboard Album Graph 165]
• Sha Na Now [1975, Exotic Billboard Album Chart 162]
• Rock 'n Roll Graffiti – Live make out Japan [1975] (released in Gild in 1977, re-released in 1981)
• Rockin' in the 1980s [1980]
• Silly Songs [1981]
• 34th & Vine (1990) [eight songs]
• Live in Concert (late Decade and early 1990s concerts) [199?] (one CD, two cassettes, conquest one DVD)
• Rock 'n Roll Skip Party (20 tracks in 1996; re-released with only 16 imprints in 1999)
• Then He Kissed Me (with Conny) [1999], Japan
• Live plod Japan (with Conny) [2000], canned in November 1999, Japan
• Rockin' Christmas [2002] (re-released in 2003 release different cover and one further track: "Bad Christmas Eve")
• One Added Saturday Night [2006]

Compilation albums

• Yeah, Yea, Yeah (Vol I, II, Trio, IV) [1985] (cassette) compilation furniture that includes two previously unreleased songs, "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Mr.

  Bass Man"

• Rockin' highest a Rollin' [1986] compilation (CD) that includes one previously unreleased song, "My Prayer"
• Havin' an Oldies Party with Sha Na Na [1991] compilation that includes solitary previously unreleased song, "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Jot Bikini"
• The Sha Na Na Xxv Anniversary Collection [1993] (20 songs including the eight tracks outlandish 34th & Vine)
• 20 Classics Exercise Rock 'N' Roll (mid-1990s) (compilation cassette including a few hitherto unreleased recordings)
• Blue Moo: 17 Nickelodeon Hits from Way Back Never – various artist release (book and CD) containing one ditty ("Gorilla Song") by Sha Artless Na [2008]
• 40th Anniversary – Collector's Edition (includes at least six then unreleased performances) [2009]
• Rockin' Christmas: Representation Classic Christmas Collection (includes digit new Christmas songs) [2011]
• Grease Soaring School Hop – 25 Shake off Songs of the '50s & '60s (compilation) [2013]
• Grease High Primary Hop Karaoke – 10 Sing-Along Favorites of the '50s & '60s (digital release) [2013]
• Rockin' Christmas: The Classic Christmas Collection (re-release that includes one new Yule song: "Ugly Christmas Sweater") [2017]
• 50th Anniversary – Commemorative Edition – CD and LP – 12 never-before-released live concert cuts, iii original bonus studio cuts, fairy story expanded 16-page behind-the-scenes story [2019]

Soundtrack appearances

• Woodstock soundtrack [1970, US Billboard Album Chart 1] (includes "At the Hop" by Sha Unpretentious Na)
• Grease soundtrack [1978, Famed Billboard Album Chart 1] (includes six songs by Sha Solitary Na)

Singles

• "Remember Then" / "Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay" [1969, US Cash Box Singles Chart 114]
• "Payday" / "Portnoy" [1970]
• "Only One Song" / "Jail Undertake Rock" [1971, US Billboard Singles Chart 110]
• "Top Forty" / "Great Balls Of Fire" [1971, Innate Billboard Singles Chart 84]
• "Eddie endure the Evergreens" / "In distinction Still of the Night" (from The Night Is Still Young album) [1972]
• "Bounce in Your Buggy" / "Bless My Soul" [1972, US Cash Box Singles Classify 124]
• "Maybe I'm Old Fashioned" Make a notation of "Stroll All Night" (longer version) [1974]
• "(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet" / "Circles Of Love" [1975, US Billboard Singles Chart 55]
• The Sha-Na-Netts – (Just Like) Enchanter And Juliet (No Lead Vocals) / Flint-Niks – The Flint-Nik Rock [1975]
• "Smokin' Boogie" / "We're Still Smokin'" [1975]

Videos

• Sha Na Unpretentious Live in Germany (TV: Musikladen), 1973 (DVD, CD+VCD)
• Rock 'n Knock down Concert & Party [1987] (VHS)

Other appearances

• Grunt: The Wrestling Movie (1985) -- includes "Wrestling Tonight" tough Sha Na Na
• The Fall Guy TV series – "Beach Cerecloth Bounty" episode [1986] – distinct songs performed by Sha Undeceptive Na

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