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Fred Parris of The Five Satins, creator of doo-wop classic 'In the Still of the Night,' dead at 85
Fred Parris, who was a love-struck 19-year-old missing his fiancée while serving in the Army when he wrote one of pop music’s most enduring songs, the wistful doo-wop ballad commonly known as “In the Still of the Night,” and recorded it with his group the Five Satins in 1956, died on Jan. 13 in New Haven, Conn. He was 85.
His current group, Fred Parris and the Five Satins, posted news of his death on its Facebook page, saying only that he had died after a short illness.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/arts/music/fred-parris-dead.html]
And the song (remixed in glorious stereo)
And the group in later years, still sounding great:
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R.I.P.
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