Singer Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs and The Coasters, has died of diabetes and a stroke in New York, according to an obituary in The New York Times. He was 75. ...
The Cadillacs were one of many doo-wop groups to come out of the streets of Harlem, but one of the first to choreograph dance moves. ...
Carroll also spent two decades with the Coasters before rejoining a new incarnation of the Cadillacs about 30 years ago. That group gave nostalgia performances throughout the country, mostly on weekends to accommodate Mr. Carroll's day job as a custodian at a New York City public school. ...
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