And you've got a new CD out, which really sticks to the doo-wop feel but you've also got a couple of surprising song choices, and it's really a good sounding album that doesn't sound like an oldies collection. It's all new recordings - "neo-doo-wop!"

Thank you for saying that. Unfortunately this genre is overlooked, passed over.

You also take the band on the road.

I don't know why but there's a tremendous need for this. The people who love this music come out in droves - we play to packed houses all over the United States. It's mindblowing. I think that when we do these songs we kind of transport the people back to that time, and in doing so they wind up transporting us back to that time [too].

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That's got to be a nicer experience than watching one of those public television doo-wop extravaganzas where they bring out all these acts and they do one song each.

We were on that show, and we play with a lot of these people, and these are people who had hits 40 and 50 years ago, and unfortunately most of them really aren't as good as they were [then]. But if people took the time to listen to some of those records, like the Dells ("Oh What a Night"), Jimmy Beaumont and the Skyliners ("This I Swear," "Since I Don't Have You"), Pookie Hudson and the Spaniels ("Be Mine"), The Doves featuring Richard Blandon ("Could This Be Magic")...

Outstanding singers every one.

And certainly the lyrics were about love and simplistic things, but it seems to me those records conveyed a feeling. Today's stuff is really not about that, it's about something else. And I'm not putting down what they do today. But this music that we're discussing now does have a credibility.

Not every city has an oldies station where you can still hear this music.

Satellite radio is the hope for the future.

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