The doo-wop group "The Cadillacs" pose for a portrait with their lead singer Earl Carroll (top) in circa 1954 in New York. They recorded a song called "Zoom." (James Kriegsmann/Michael Ochs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decades before Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin made Puerto Rican music mainstream in American culture, there was an ...

Thornton James "Pookie" Hudson, who wrote the 1954 hit "Good Night Sweetheart," died Tuesday of complications from cancer. He was 72. The song is a doo-wop classic, recorded by the Spaniels. Jon ...

Thornton James “Pookie” Hudson, 72, lead singer and songwriter for the Spaniels, a doo-wop group best known for the 1954 hit “Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight,” died Tuesday of complications from ...