Bob CollinsThe last remaining member of the Silhouettes has died. The Rev. John “Bootsie” Wilson was 69.
Wilson’s death prompts a matter requiring serious popular culture research: How many groups who had hit records in the ’60s have no surviving members?
Dying ‘doo wop’
About the blogger
Bob Collins
bcollins@mpr.org • @newscutBob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
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