While college students were a big part of the audience at Woodstock in the summer of 1969, John “Jocko” Marcellino – then both a freshman at Columbia University and the drummer for Sha Na Na – was ...

NEW YORK — Dennis Greene, a founding member of Sha Na Na, a band that became famous in the 1970s for its nostalgic and comedic approach to the rock ’n’ roll of the 1950s, died Saturday at a hospital ...

Screamin’ Scott Simon, who spent 52 years as the pianist of the energetic rock ’n’ roll and doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai after a long battle with sinus cancer, his daughter Nina ...

The power didn't cut out when Sha Na Na performed immediately before Jimi Hendrix at the conclusion of the famously rain-soaked Woodstock festival in August 1969 in Bethel, N.Y. But the Wurlitzer ...

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 ...

A mainstay and manager of a rock ’n’ roll nostalgia band, he wrote the lyrics to “Sandy,” a song heard in the hit film “Grease.” By Richard Sandomir Screamin’ Scott Simon, who as the dynamic ...

Scott Simon, who dedicated 52 years playing the piano for doo-wop group Sha Na Na, died Thursday in Ojai, California, at the age of 75 after a long battle with sinus cancer, his daughter Nina Simon ...

“Screamin’ Scott” Simon, who played piano in the early-rock revival group Sha Na Na for more than a half-century and co-wrote the song “Sandy” that John Travolta crooned in Grease, died September 5 of ...

There were many college students among the half-million people at Woodstock in the summer of 1969, but, as the drummer for Sha Na Na, John “Jocko” Marcellino - then a freshman at New York's Columbia ...

Known for his wild antics on stage, Screamin’ Scott Simon loved to entertain fans as he could play the piano with his feet. But besides loving the spotlight, the pianist was also a masterful ...