I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
I was singing doo-wop on the corner under the streetlight with four other guys when it wasn't called doo-wop. We just got together and sang, so that music is inside of me. It's a lot of stuff that has been rolling around in here and becoming this compost and has made me who I am as a singer.
I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.
Doo-wop was full of blues for me.
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
I never left doo wop.
The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
