Bowzer (of Sha Na Na) will be bringing his amazing doo-wop show back to the Melody Tent this summer, but before that he’ll be co-hosting a series of Doo-Wop shows on PBS this month!

The series is called “MY MUSIC: ROCK, POP, AND DOO-WOP” and will highlight music made famous in the 1960s. Bowzer will be co-hosting the series (which premieres this Saturday, March 5!) with Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes. The show will feature live performances from Doo-Wop legends as well as “lost footage from archives around the world that hasn’t been seen since originally aired,” according to the show’s executive producer. At lease 20 artists are slatted to be included.

Read more about “MY MUSIC: ROCK, POP, AND DOO-WOP” in this Huffington Post piece (it’s all the way at the bottom) and check your local PBS listings and make sure you don’t miss it!

Until then, here’s a little taste of Bowzer’s 2010 show to get you excited!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9kS8qg83xQ

- JS

The February 2011 show announcement went out today! Here’s who we’ve added:

• New This Year! Siobhan Magnus with The Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra
• New This Year! Trace Adkins Presented by BC Powder
• New This Year! k.d. lang
• Michael McDonald & Boz Scaggs
• Tony Bennett
• Happy Together Tour (with: The Turles featuring Flo & Eddie, Association, The Grass Roots, Mark Lindsay former lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Buckinghams)
• Bowzer’s Ultimate Doo-Wop Party (Featuring: Gene Chandler, Herb Reed & The Platters, Little Peggy March, The Tune Weavers, Bowzer & The Stingrays, Rocky & The Rollers, and special guests Johnny Contrado & Lennie Baker formerly of Sha Na Na)
• Huey Lewis & The News
• Comedian Jeff Dunham
• Cape Cod Irish Summer-fest

Tickets go on sale to club members on Monday, February 21! If you want to get the best seats to any of these shows, JOIN THE CLUB!

-JS

With the lineup in this year’s Bowzer’s Original Doo Wop Party it’ll be a surprise if they manage to fit in a song that wasn’t a hit! Charlie Thomas’ Drifters, Danny & The Juniors, Jay Seigel & The Tokens, Little Joe Cook, and The Crystals all have ample material to choose from to keep you singing along.

Add Bowzer and Lennie Baker to the mix and you not only get Bowzer & The Stingrays, but two influential members of Sha Na Na! And when Lennie and Bowzer get together, it’s like they never left the Doo Wop heyday.

We’ll be doing some of the duets that we did together with Sha Na Na. And, of course, we’ll sing ‘Blue Moon,’ which is our signature song. Lennie and I have always gotten along very well and so everything floods back instantly when we reunite and it is almost like we never stopped working together.

Read more about the show, how Bowzer gets Lennie out of retirement, and how Bowzer ensures all the bands on his tour actually feature people you remember (Lennie was also a member of Danny & The Juniors!) in Wicked Local.

Come to Bowzer’s Original Doo Wop Party on Sunday, August 1!