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Fred Parris of the Five Satins has died (vanity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak6tttHk_R8 ^

Posted on 01/21/2022 6:06:30 PM PST by firebrand

He wrote this song in 1955 and the record was released in 1956. A classic of the fifties doo-wop genre.


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To: firebrand

Loved that song, still do.


21 posted on 01/21/2022 9:25:34 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: firebrand

Don’t think this one was posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHkrOJyvio


22 posted on 01/22/2022 4:16:21 AM PST by pookie18
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To: firebrand
That is my all time favorite, I met my 'first love' at a dance when they played, "In the Still of the Night" as the final "slow song" before the dance ended.

60 plus years later and I still remember that song/night/events:)

It puts a smile in my heart.

23 posted on 01/22/2022 4:20:06 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: firebrand

RIP.


24 posted on 01/22/2022 7:11:33 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: Fiji Hill
Here's another of the non-doo-wop that were popular on the black stations more than the other stations. It features that very high soprano that Feels So Good.
25 posted on 01/22/2022 8:05:27 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Fiji Hill

Thanks for the history on the Penguins. I never knew what happened.

I was at a fifties show in Jersey one time and they seemed to have everybody but the Penguins, so I told one of the guys running the show I missed them. Voila. Right near me in NYC they appear! But then I read the program notes, and that was all it said, that there were no original members.


26 posted on 01/22/2022 8:12:01 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Fiji Hill

That is gorgeous.


27 posted on 01/22/2022 8:16:45 AM PST by firebrand
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To: Impala64ssa

Brings back memories.

Didn’t he broadcast from Mexico, where he could take advantage of the different broadcast regulations in order to be heard all over the Southwest?


28 posted on 01/22/2022 8:19:50 AM PST by firebrand
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To: pookie18

Amazing how the zeitgeist has changed. If we brought back those sentiments somehow we would all be better off.


29 posted on 01/22/2022 8:23:14 AM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

Ya got that right, firebrand!


30 posted on 01/22/2022 8:27:52 AM PST by pookie18
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To: USS Alaska
I have one of those songs too. Was at a high school dance and they played the other side of the Platters big hit The Great Pretender. "Am I Just Another Dancing Partner?"
31 posted on 01/22/2022 8:35:37 AM PST by firebrand
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Didn’t he broadcast from Mexico, where he could take advantage of the different broadcast regulations in order to be heard all over the Southwest?

He was on XERB for a while. That's just over the border from San Diego. I never heard the Wolfman on that station, but in 1972, I did hear him on the Armed Forces Network when I was living in Germany. Everyone thought he was black, but he was actually Irish-American.

32 posted on 01/22/2022 12:25:58 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: firebrand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFzmP6Xnxs8


33 posted on 01/24/2022 4:38:00 AM PST by pookie18
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To: pookie18

Ha! Thanks! Never saw this video. They are even cooler now than before.


34 posted on 01/25/2022 12:43:59 AM PST by firebrand
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To: firebrand

Had never seen it either. I receive a weekly e-mail newsletter on Mondays & that video was part of it...


35 posted on 01/25/2022 4:06:56 AM PST by pookie18
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