The Five Satins “really were not all that different ... The Esdailes both remember the date to this day: May 9, 1964. Original Satin Jim Freeman, 76, who a couple of years ago sold his ...

Jim Freeman, another Satins member ... In 1981, Mr. Baker also restarted the group as The Five Satins but changed the name to “Bill Baker’s Five Satins” after a complaint from Parris.

The four vocalists that night were Parris, Denby, Jim Freeman and Ed Martin ... says it was him — along with Mazzetta on sax. The Five Satins were the pinnacle of a rich New Haven doo-wop ...

In 1982 he and the Five Satins returned to the charts for the ... Night,” Al Denby (low tenor), Eddie Martin (baritone) and Jim Freeman (bass). The group, usually with five members, continued ...

Credited to the Five Satins, a group, like so many other harmony groups, that would change members with regularity as the years passed, the two-verse-and-a-bridge song, released in 1956 ...

By Steve Knopper, Billboard Fred Parris, frontman for The Five Satins, the doo-wop group whose smash 1956 ballad “In the Still of the Night” became an enduring standard and was prominently ...

He was 85. Parris, who was a member of doo-wop group the Five Satins, died Thursday. His death was announced in a statement posted to the group's Facebook page on Friday. "Sadly the music world ...

By Steve Knopper Fred Parris, frontman for The Five Satins, a doo-wop group whose smash 1956 ballad “In the Still of the Night” became an enduring standard and was prominently used in movies ...