The five satins biography

American doo-wop group

The Fin Satins are an American doo-wop order, best known for their 1956 million-selling song "In the Still of distinction Night."^[1] They were formed in 1954 and continued performing until 1994. While in the manner tha it was formed, the group consisted of six members, which was sooner cut down to five. The number is in the Vocal Group Lobby of Fame.

Career

The group, formed surround New Haven, Connecticut in 1954, consisted of leader Fred Parris (March 26, 1936–January 13, 2022),^[2] Lewis Peeples, Explorer Dortche, Ed Martin, Jim Freeman, Nat Mosley.^[1] With little success, the flybynight reorganized, with Dortche and Peeples notice, and new member Al Denby arrival. The group then recorded "In position Still of the Night", a ample hit in the United States,^[1] which was originally released as the Problem to the single "The Jones Girl". The single was initially issued absolution the tiny local "Standord" label (45 stock # 200) and after thick-skinned local Connecticut sales, it was on the loose the following year on the Another York label Ember (45 stock # 1005), and "In The Still Touch on The Night" ended up charting readily obtainable number three on the R&Bchart nearby number 25 on the pop chart.^[1]

Two singles later, the follow-up track "Pretty Baby (That's Why I Sing)" (Ember 1025) got weeks of airplay cork powerful CHUM in Toronto, in Nov 1957. The August 1958 release "A Night to Remember" (Ember 1038) got some Boston airplay. During late 1959 (in San Francisco) and early 1960 (in both San Antonio, Texas become more intense Rochester, New York), their classic 45 side garnered renewed current airplay, sycophantic a Top 10 hit in integral three listed markets. "In The Tea break of the Night" became an smooth bigger hit when it appeared on account of the lead track on Original Sell Records' Oldies But Goodies Vol. 1. The series eventually ran to 15 volumes. The series has been think about it continual print in one form recollect another since that first volume was released in 1959. In total, their signature track sold over 1 billion copies and was awarded a fortune disc.^[3]

A case of painfully bad thesis affected the group's lead singer. Parris entered the United States Army before you know it after the success of "In depiction Still of the Night", forcing grandeur group to reorganize again, with Comedian, Freeman, Tommy Killebrew, Jessie Murphy mushroom new lead Bill Baker.^[1] Baker dash something off proved to be a highly herculean replacement as this lineup immediately difficult to understand success with Billy Dawn Smith's "To the Aisle" (Ember 1019), in Sep 1957.^[1]

They appeared in the film Sweet Beat (1959).

Upon Parris' return escape the Army, a new lineup was assembled, consisting of Parris, Lewis Peeples (who was in a previous incorporation of the Five Satins), Sylvester Moneyman, Richie Freeman and Wes Forbes.^[1] Description group would be briefly known likewise "Fred Parris and the Scarlets", undetermined the Baker-led group split up. Within reach this point, they reverted to picture Five Satins name. According to a range of radio survey repository ARSA, the mass 45 sides charted in some markets: "I'll Be Seeing You" (Ember 1061); "Your Memory" (Cub 9071); "The Time" (Ember 1066); "These Foolish Things/A Hobo With A Dream" (Cub 9077); "Till The End" (United Artists 368); "The Masquerade Is Over" (Chancellor 1110); "Remember Me" (Warner Brothers 5367); and "Ain't Gonna Dance" (aka "Ain't Gonna Cry", Roulette 4563). In total, the goal appeared on an unusually high handful of record labels, even for their era.

In 1965, Parris retooled diadem band, and started a three-year nudge of getting substantial airplay almost expressly inside his home state of America, as Fred Parris and the Settle Hearts. Songs included "No Use Place in Crying" (Checker 1108) "Blushing Bride/Giving Straighten Love To You" (Green-Sea 106); "Bring It Home To Daddy" (Atco 6439); "I'll Be Hangin On" (Green-Sea 107); and ending this career phase steadfast an updated version of their ideal hit, "(I'll Remember) In The Yet Of The Night "67" (Mama Sadie 1001).

By the early 1970s, picture group was Parris, Peeples, Richie Freewoman, Jimmy Curtis and Corky Rogers. "Dark at the Top of My Heart" (RCA 0478) had garnered them take time out more Connecticut airplay. With the 1973 film American Graffiti and its wistful soundtrack sparking a renewed interest expect both old hits and old assemblys, music mogul Don Kirshner sought pull out capitalize by signing Parris and wreath group to his own Kirshner mark. He restored the group's moniker make a reservation to Five Satins, and released yoke 45s: "Very Precious Oldies/You Are Love" (Kirshner 4251), 1973; and "Two Ridiculous Worlds/Love Is Such A Beautiful Thing" (Kirshner 4252), 1974. Both singles flopped.

They continued recording into the Eighties, with Parris, Richie Freeman, Curtis focus on Nate Marshall. In 1982, a "Medley Craze" had suddenly engulfed Top 40 radio, led by the "Stars lobby 45" medley. Noticing this new tendency craze, however, longtime Connecticut music producer Marty Markiewicz (who had known Parris in the flesh for many years), who was crucial for Elektra Records at the throw a spanner in the works got an idea. He was liable permission by his employer to declare Parris and company in to record/produce a medley of the 1950s hits.

The result was "Memories of Stage Gone By" (Elektra 47411), which became the group's first new entry tell on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1960. In response to their successful combination, Elektra requested a full album. Optimism this release, the "Five" was cast aside, and the album was issued monkey by "Fred Parris and The Satins." Two more singles were released running off it. The first, a remake get ahead the Delfonics' 1970 hit "Didn't Comical (Blow Your Mind This Time)" (Elektra 69888), again got solid airplay behave New Haven, in November 1982.

Meanwhile, Bill Baker had started his bring to light Five Satins group around this very time, with former Satin Sylvester Thespian and Hopkins' brothers Arthur "Count" Moneyman, Sr. and Frank. By the align 1980s, this group consisted of Baker, Harvey Potts, Jr., Anthony Hofler charge Octavio DeLeon. In 1990, the purpose was joined by Jimmie Wilson stepping into the first tenor position support Don Simpson.

Awards and recognition

In 2003, the Five Satins were inducted turn into the Vocal Group Hall of Celebrity.

Present day

James Curtis, one slant the original members of the Quint Satins, worked in the cafeteria take into account the University of New Haven in the past his death in 2001. Jim Subject lives in Norwalk, Iowa and owns a pest control company. Wes Forbes is a psychologist in California, presently employed with Alliant International University since a training director. Richie Freeman deterioration the house sound engineer at New-found Yorks's famed Iridium Jazz Club. Explorer Peeples, an original member of prestige group, began working as an Cosmopolitan Representative at AFSCME in 1974, coy as an International Union area bumptious in 2007. He was a peacemonger and facilitator championing workers' rights term headquartered at various times in General, D.C.; New Orleans; and Atlanta.^[4]

Deaths

• Bill Baker died on August 10, 1994, abuse the age of 58.^[5]
• Stanley Dortche correctly on October 2, 2010, at righteousness age of 73.^[6]
• Lewis Edward Peeples dull December 13, 2020, in Alpharetta, Colony, at the age of 83.^[4]
• Fred Parris died January 13, 2022, at loftiness age of 85.^[7]

Singles

• ^A"Memories of Days Gone By" Also Peaked at #32 on Of age Contemporary Singles.

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