Floyd “Buddy” McRae, the last surviving original member of the Chords, who popularized the seminal rock ‘n’ roll classic “Sh-Boom” almost 60 years ago, died Tuesday at Montefiore Medical Center in the ...
Fifty-seven summers ago, Buddy McRae and his friends would cruise Boston Road in their blue DeSoto limousine, the one with the doors that said, “The Chords – Sh-Boom!” “People would be stopping and ...
Robert Hass, 76, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. poet laureate who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of “A Little Book on Form” (Ecco). He spoke with Marc ...