This doo-wop soul song has just a touch of rock and roll to it, and it’s a good example of how much teenagers contributed to charting music at the time. The Teen Queens appealed to teens (obviously) ...
Some things should never go out of style. When you see the Dubs-- a doo-wop group formed in Harlem in 1956 -- they still perform in immaculate outfits that match right down to the shoes, just like the ...
Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s doo-wop group the Five Satins, who wrote the hit “In the Still of the Night,” died Jan 13. He was 85. The group made the announcement on its official Facebook ...
NEW HAVEN >> Without Fred Parris, The Five Satins and their soul-stirring 1956 Doo-Wop hit, “In The Still Of The Night,” who knows; maybe there never would have been a movie — and now a play — called ...
Over the years, the New Haven Register has written many times about Fred Parris, co-founder of The Five Satins and author of their classic hit, “In the Still of the Night.” In April 2017, a story ...
When Danny and the Juniors first sang the words “Rock and roll is here to stay / it will never die,” they were on to something. Six decades later, doo wop music from the 1950s and ”60s has resurged in ...
The conditions were less than ideal: A song is written just before its composer-singer is shipped off to Japan, and recorded in the basement of a church. But the Five Satins' "In the Still of the ...