This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Parris, the lead singer ...

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 ...

The incomparable Fred Parris of The Five Satins left us in the still of the night on January 13th. Can his memory trigger a new interest in doo-wop music? Fred wrote In the Still of the Night, ...

Arguably the greatest song in the history of doo-wop was written while its composer had a brief leave from the military and was recorded in the basement of a church in New Haven, Connecticut, and the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s harmony group the Five Satins and composer of the classic doo-wop ballad “In the Still of the Night,” has died at age 85. Parris died Jan. 13 ...