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In reply to the discussion: In your opinion, best Doo-Wop song ever? [View all]red dog 1
(29,817 posts)since all the poll options have at least one vote, I can't replace any of them without "taking someone's vote away", and I won't do that.
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers were an awesome doo-wop group, even if the "Teenagers" all looked much older than Frankie did.
Back to The 5 Satins, (from Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time)
# 90 The Five Satins, "In the Still of the Night"
(Written by front man Fred Parris)
Five Satins frontman Fred Parris wrote the song while on guard duty in the Army, and the group recorded it in the basement of a church in Parris's home town of New Haven, Connecticut.
The roughness shows: The drums & piano are muffled, the alto sax cracks during the solo, and the backing vocals wander off-key.
But the primitive sound - and the fact that only four of the Five satins were even present for the session - can't keep "In the Still of the Night," originally released as a B side, from being a sublime, definitive piece of doo-wop."
(Google "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"
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