HOME BASE: Southern Ocean County.
STYLE: Inventory of more than 300 songs includes doo-wop era favorites, Motown, R&B, disco and more. Or as they say, “It’s music people love to dance to. That’s what we’re all about, having fun.”
LINEUP: Drummer Joey D. (Joseph D. Schrull) and lead vocalist John Bishop.
INSIDE TRACK: Combined they have some 80 years’ singing experience. Bishop was the first tenor with the Soundmasters, at one time a popular doo-wop a capella group based on Long Beach Island. Schrull had a band that played the old Bayberry Inn in Ship Bottom.
TWO’S TAKE: As the Dovells sang in 1963, “You Can’t Sit Down” once they get rolling.
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