The enduring doo-wop hit was featured prominently in films 'Dirty Dancing' and 'The Irishman.' By Steve Knopper, Billboard Fred Parris, frontman for The Five Satins, the doo-wop group whose smash 1956 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s doo-wop music, spanning all generations from Asbury Park. “Doo Wop Generations,” from PBS “My Music” man TJ Lubinsky, will debut Saturday, March 3 on PBS stations around the country, Lubinsky has ...