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 ...

Sha Na Na will perform at Newton Theatre on Friday, October 19. The group, featuring original members John “Jocko” Marcellino and Donny York, specializes in faithful recreations of the rock ‘n’ roll ...

It’s a warm December day when Jocko Marcellino, the longtime drummer in the classic rock act Sha Na Na, comes on the phone to talk about the band’s new holiday single, “Ugly Christmas Sweater,” though ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sha Na Na’s 50th anniversary coincides with the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the monumental rock festival in the summer of 1969 that Rolling Stone magazine includes in its list of “50 moments that ...

“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 ...

It was 50 years ago when Sha Na Na opened for Jimi Hendrix at a music festival called Woodstock during the summer of 1969 — you might have heard of it. Sha Na Na co-founder and drummer Jocko ...

Leonard “Lennie” Baker, a member of the band Sha Na Na, died on Wednesday at the age of 69. The musician’s nephew, David Baker, confirmed the news with an online obituary. “Lennie was a people person, ...