Fred Parris, the lead singer of the 1950s doo-wop group the Five Satins, who wrote the hit "In the Still of the Night," died Jan 13. He was 85. The group made the announcement on its official Facebook ...

Decades before Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin made Puerto Rican music mainstream in American culture, there was an all-Puerto Rican doo-wop group that broke into the top music charts. And ...

Tim Maher knew the doo-wop motels of the Wildwoods were in trouble. A booming real estate market meant the island’s 1950s and 1960s-era properties were being torn down and replaced with rows of very ...

The group made the announcement on its official Facebook page. Parris died after a brief illness, his music manager, Pat Marafiote, told The Associated Press. Parris and his wife lived in Hamden, ...