Sha-na-na 1969 at Woodstock, playing before Jimi Hendrix.
Their 90-second appearance in the Woodstock film brought the group national attention and helped spark a 1950s nostalgia craze that inspired similar groups in North America, as well as the Broadway musical Grease, the feature film American Graffiti and the TV show Happy Days.0
‘rock’n’roll is here to stay’ 1969
On their first album The Golden Age of Rock and Roll (1969, re-released in 1973 with different cover) the lead singer taunts the audience on one of the live tracks by announcing, “We’ve got just one thing to say to you fuckin’ hippies, and that is that rock and roll is here to stay!”
Sha-na-na syndicated series 1977-81.
The members of Sha Na Na during the TV series were Jon ‘Bowzer’ Bauman (vocals), Lennie Baker (sax), Johnny Contardo (vocals), Frederick ‘Dennis’ Greene (vocals), Danny “Dirty Dan” McBride (guitar) (left after third season), Jocko Marcellino (drums), Dave “Chico” Ryan (bass), ‘Screamin’ Scott Simon (piano), Scott ‘Santini’ Powell (vocals), Donald ‘Donny’ York (vocals). Each was introduced only by his nickname or his first name in a voice-over by Myers at the beginning of each show.
Bass player Dave “Chico” Ryan, among the television show lineup, died in 1998; while remaining in Sha Na Na, he joined Bill Haley & His Comets for the group’s fall 1979 tour of Europe (Haley’s last major tour before his death).
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appearance as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers in Grease
Rocky Sharpe and the Replays (Razors originally) 1976
They became Rocky Sharpe and the Razors in 1978
Darts 1976 ‘Daddy Cool’ 1977 UK #6, ‘The Boy from New York City’ 1978 UK #2 (covered by the US Manhattan Transfer in 1981), ‘Duke of Earl’ 1979 UK #6
(Den Hegarty left in late 1978 to look after his ill father, featuring in three series of Jack Good’s final television show, Let’s Rock.
Flying Pickets 1982 ‘only you’
Original 1969 member, Donny York, reminisces on the beginning of Sha-na-na.
