Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts presents ‘An R&B Christmas’
At Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2013-14 season on Saturday, Dec. 21 at 8 p.m. with An R&B Christmas. Hosted by WCBS-FM 101.1’s “Broadway Bill Lee,” this holiday concert will feature chart-topping doo-wop and R&B artists performing their biggest hits along with some holiday favorites.
The evening’s lineup will include Charlie Thomas’ Drifters (“Under the Boardwalk,” “Up on the Roof”), The Coasters (“Yakety Yak,” “Poison Ivy”), Blue Magic featuring original lead singer Ted Wizard Mills (“Side Show”), and Shirley Alston Reeves, original lead singer of The Shirelles (“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”).
Charlie Thomas was performing at the Apollo Theater with The Five Crowns in 1958 when manager George Treadwell fired The Drifters and recruited the Crowns to become the new Drifters. Their first release, “There Goes My Baby,” reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart, and they went on to have several top 40 hits. Thomas was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, along with other original members Doc Green, Ben E. King and Elsbery Hobbs.