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Only five months after Leonard had explained his concept to the group, on the basis of excitement their performances had generated in a New York City club frequented by famous rock musicians and others from the music business, and with the help of Jimi Hendrix, a friend they had met at the club, they obtained a slot at the Woodstock festival. Current band members include bassist Tim Butler, guitarist Randy Hill, drummer Ty Cox, and saxophone player Michael Brown.Ĭonceived by George Leonard, then a humanities graduate student, who also became the group's original choreographer, Sha Na Na began performing in 1969 at the height of the hippie counterculture. Everyone else from the original band and TV show has since departed. The current lineup features original members Donny York and Jocko Marcellino, and longtime member Screamin' Scott Simon, who joined in 1970.

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The group's name is taken from a series of nonsense syllables ('Sha Na Na Na Sha Na Na Na Na') in the song ' Get a Job', originally recorded by the Silhouettes.

After gaining initial fame for their performance at Woodstock, made possible with the help of their friend Jimi Hendrix, the group hosted Sha Na Na, a syndicated variety series that ran from 1977 to 1981.īilling themselves as 'from the streets of New York', members were frequently outfitted in gold lamé or leather jackets and sported pompadour or ducktail hairdos. Formed in 1969, but performing a song-and-dance repertoire based on 1950s hit songs, it has simultaneously revived and parodied the music and the New York street culture of the 1950s. Sha Na Na is an American rock and roll doo-wop group.

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