“I’m not a scholar,” the voice — that voice, older and husky now, but still recognizable — explained to The Post in a brief phone interview earlier this month. “I’m a guy from The Bronx.” Over his 85 ...

In the mid to late 1950s, doo-wop was a street sound that was taking the country by storm. It brought young kids of all backgrounds together in some of America’s most predominant cities. New York, ...