He drives a vintage Cadillac and inserts 1950s doo-wop tunes into his build-a-border-fence fulminations.

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He sang with doo-wop groups on the street corner in his Brooklyn neighborhood at an early age.

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In his spare time, Mr. Barry began writing songs for a doo-wop group he formed called the Tarrytones.

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At times, songs such as "Incense Cone, " with its mellow bass and doo-wop chorus, are colored by 1960s influences.

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Meanwhile, The Tokens spent much of the '60s trying to move away from "The Lion Sleeps Tonight, " and doo-wop in general.

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Uniquely mixing vintage Rock'n'Roll, Rockabilly, R'n'B, Doo-Wop and Instrumentals, the show has attracted a big-following across the UK and on-line around the world.

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The quintet began in 1955 as a high school doo-wop group called the Domingoes and they were signed by Harvey Fuqua to Detroit record company Tri-Phi Records.

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