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  • I was in high school in 1955. One of the GREATEST R&R songs ever!

  • I was born in '61 and I was lucky to grow up through the entire '60's. My older relatives used to play these songs on a record player they used to carry around like a small piece of luggage. I miss those days.

  • One of the original members of the Five Satins now works in the cafeteria at the University of New Haven. Jim Freeman lives in Norwalk, Iowa and owns a pest control company. Wes Forbes is a psychologist in the State of California, currently employed with Alliant International University as a Training Director. Richie Freeman is the house sound engineer at NY's famed Iridium jazz club.

  • how are there any dislikes to this?? i cannot even comprehend. this is probably one of my favorite song EVER

  • I pray no one samples this

  • i gotta agree i wa born in the 90's aswell and i can even say this is what rwal music is called compared to today lol todays musics is fucin shit hahahahah

  • I remember many times listening to this and a lot more of the make out songs, boy would I like to take that trip back.

    dbj1941

  • its sad to look at this video of this african american with such a beutiful voice and now adays MOST african americans music artists are rappers(I said MOST not all african american music artists)

  • i stand corrected fred parris is still alive but pookie hudson died last year 2011

  • i am afriad fred parris is no longer with us, neither is pookie hudson of the spaniels fame. these really are lovely songs, turn the lights off,grab your girl and dance,superb..

  • Who cares what your age is its pretty pathetic you put your age just to get a thumbs up, and i bet some of these people arent event the age they really are

  • Just because this song happens to be old and is incredible doesn't mean you can dismiss modern music. Yes, it's subjective, yes you have the right to enjoy sound you wish. However, the industry may be strange today, but modern popular music is not all bad.

  • surup sabidub

  • great song

  • great song maybe one of the best

  • how many records do u think this osng has sold since the first cut? how many people have listened to this song? people born in 2012 down to people born in the 1880s? think about it......just heard a amer idol contestant sing thi8s song in a coal mine in west virginia...lut jay blow turned him down,,,,,,

  • Are any of these gentlemen still living?

  • So much class. I want to play this on my wedding day.

  • Its not just the song, its the CLASS these guy,s have! Thanks for the memories!

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  • I was Born in '93, and the '50's and early '60's had some of the best music, while the 2000's had some of the worst.

  • @mr19932001 I was born the same year. I've been listening to this music since i was very very young, and its most of what i listen to. You can't beat it.

  • @classiccarguy93 Yea, I've listened to this stuff for a long time as well. There are some people I know who have a good taste in music, but the majority of people I know don't.

  • @mr19932001 completely and 100% agree!!! Im a 93 baby as well, lol.

  • @mr19932001 i agree with you i was born in 1980 and from the moment i heard this music i thought wow

  • 25 yrs old and have a real appreciation for this.... this is real music!!

  • I absolutely love these older songs. These songs were from my moms time n she use to play them. I'm so gald I grew up listening to them in our home.Those were good times.

  • Ok, I know they were billed primarily as the 5 Satins, but here, they are introduced as Fred Paris and the Satins. Are we missing a Satin on this partcular day or did he come later? Anyone know?

  • You know, I know everyone is tired of hearing rants about todays music compared to yesterdays, i'm only going to say that perhaps these artist today should take a cue from this music. Simplicity and elegance.

  • This is awesome! But did I hear someo e drop a tray of food at the begining?;)

  • easily one of the greatest songs of all time. period.

  • great stuff!! born in 72' and think this music is the best!!

  • I really like this song from them, but why does it show 4 singers when their name is 'five' satins? What happened to the fifth guy? I know I didn't drink that much wine...

  • great song!!! this was real music!!!

  • Ya, this is what is real music.

  • Love, love this song!!!!!

  • One of the greatest songs of all time.

  • Doo woop nostalgia even though we weren't there but we wish we was

  • Shows how much music has lost its roots. My dad listens to this kind of music daily and at first I hated it when i was younger and then i grew into loving it.. I realized that artists these days are horrible live and never have passion in their music.. back then they had to be PERFORMERS and know how to sing and know their music by heart since it was a one take type recording and now theres programs to make people sound better.. its pretty sad

  • I danced to this in the gym when it first came out... good memories.. Thanks for posting.

  • wow..the year I was born..I love oldies and doowop!!!!!

  • Very real. I love this song.

  • I think i was born in wrong generation! this song its perfect for me!

  • really? a classic and still people who hate it? wow to 86

  • now this what u call real music it has so much meaning to it unlike todays music which sucks i am 29 years old and i will always love the music from the 50's and 60's.

  • @XSexyPoisonDivaX1 I agree, I'm 18 and I feel the same way about a vast majority of the music released form 2000-present, the only half way decent music released in the last decade or two were some country songs. Otherwise, the '40's-mid '80's ('50s, '60's and '70s in particular) were the best times for music.

  • Romance.

  • I love this song! The classic old America. Greeting from Czech republic.

  • The greatest "doo wop" song of them all !

  • What is wrong with audience? Are they dead?

  • Such a lovely song! very difficult to hear such a song these days I would love to play this song while doing a ball room dance with my beloved !

  • "Gentlemen, what dance moves are we going to do?"

    "Let's do awkward group fist-bump followed by Ka-ching hands."

  • greatest slow dance song ever.

  • Make out music at it's finest hour...

  • I sing this song daily...been attached since I was a wee wittle baby..cant get enough of these classic's.

  • @ptwnloco Me neither.. Oldies is my favorite kind of music.

  • I lovee this!!!

  • classic, i love this song :D

  • Why are they named five satins?

  • @animegeek27 there's another satin that you don't see here.....btw this isn't american bandstand.

  • america will never get the 50's back

  • so many great time listening to this. it will never stop being a perfect song to listen too.

  • 1956, I was 13, me and Rosemarie F. would look out our windows across the street from each other on E107th street, and wait until the radio played this song before we went to bed. Sometimes we would meet at the East River Drive for a teenage make-out session. Thanks Rosemarie for some great Memories. LG

  • No other word but classic.

  • cant tell if he was being racist at the opening

  • とても素晴らしい曲ですね。日本では80年代にUSのオールディ­ーズが流行っていて学生時代に古き良きUSに心馳せながら聞いて­いました。今でも色褪せることのない名曲をありがとう。

  • I wish i lived in the 50's <3

  • the five satans

  • Pancakes on a rainy Saturday morning.

  • thats a wonderful song!!!!

  • This is what u call real music

    I'm 11 and I love this song:)

  • @RandomLgirl1218

    I agree with you im 11 and i am in love with this song xD

  • @RandomLgirl1218 no one cares how old you are, nice to see that you enjoy the music though.

  • Great song, it makes me think of a Dave Chappelle bit "GET TO ENTERTAINING THEM WHITE FOLKS!"

  • @legalbeagle26 You win the dubious prize for putting a racial spin on this. So anyway, it's nice to know that white audiences enjoy superlative black talent like Fred Parris and his Satins.

  • @JeffGR4 get a sense of humor rocky dennis!

  • Was that Elizabeth Taylor?

  • they are not singing.... the bassist isn't singing to the bassist voice!

  • @rockstarickie most of the soundtracks you hear from the fifties are lipsynched, that's why they sound exactly like their records. couldn't afford to set up a band to do songs. dick clark used to regularly compliment acts on their lipsynching. it was no secret.

  • Make out music at it's best...

  • @ronetteloverz Oh, you're so right. I hit 13 in 1960, and at the high school dances, this was always one of the last songs- when you were actually dancing WITH somebody, eyes closed, smelling her hair, feeling as much as you could, (it was still the school after all) and just imagining. And you were SO horny and so happy and couldn't wait to get on with life.

    Sadly, back to class Monday morning.

    Happy memories, for the most part. Hope the kids today have some as well.

    -Bill in Canada

  • We held some high school dances at our team's crew house on the Potomac River in DC. This was always the last song.

  • I remember my parents used to listen to this when I was little. Definate classic.

  • in my teen years, the 70's, i used to listen to an oldies station, and every year this was voted the best song of all time. hard to argue...

  • This is a great song, I know I'm prolly gonna get yelled at for this but the boyz II men acapella remake is very good too you should check it out

  • My grandpa was one of the 5 satins <3

  • This is what I would call "music". Not the crap they sing today.

  • i see sooo many my age commenting that they love the old music too!! Us younger generation need to bring back this music, REAL music!! It will NEVER be forgotton its just beautiful!!

    xoxo

  • No matter what your age is, this song takes you back!!!! Many (like myself) wishing to be born then, I'm an old soul =D

  • its as if the people in the video dont realize how amazing this music is

  • ahhhhhhh artists with REAL voices! and meaningful beautiful lyrics.

  • old love <3

  • This was my fathers favorite song in the entire world. I love him and miss him so much its been so hard these past 6 years but everytime i feel down i can listen to this song and it brings happy memories of him back to me

  • The best oldies

  • dirty dancing<3

  • True love could only be found in the still of the night. Not on the corner of a dark street. That is what people forget: True love is something special, not something to throw away.

  • Wish I could go back to the 50's and 60's life was so much more uncomplicated.

  • everyday i wish i was born in about 1940... instead of 1996

  • Cool black dudes back then.

  • this was 1 of my dads favorite songs

  • Blows me away everytime, takes me back, not that far I was born in 80 :) but mom and dad raised me on the good stuff its hard to let go, when as music evolves it continues to get worse

  • For those of you who are not aware, this recording is the national anthem of doo wop. It is the declarative sound of the era, and the greatest of all the great tracks that have ever been put on vinyl. Only Earth Angel by the Penguins is close enough to consider a contender, albeit a very worthy one.

  • NO ONE COMPARES TO THEM TODAY. EXCEPTIONAL

  • I was 15 when this song came out and fell in love with the song and with the Satins. I still love them. The 50s were some of the best years of my life.

  • @MyrnaMcGhie

    Yes - I was seventeen when they put this one out and the fifties music was incredible. Elvis, Buddy Holly,The Everly Bros, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bill Haley et al. And, of course,Doo wop is such a flashback for we oldtimers :-)

  • you this this song is a bomb? It was for a long time the most requested song of the DooWop and early rock and roll era.......I have followed music all my life and now that I'm an old man I am still into Dance, techno, industrial etc. I have owned and worked in club all over the place and have always liked what was current. With that let me tell you that some of the songs of the past ten years are great but some are just absolute shit. This song is truly timeless and wont' be duplicated ever.

  • I play drums in a band and when we play this tune, we always get dancers of a "certain age" up.Oh, the memories...

  • Q CHINGUEN A SU PUTA MADRE LOS CHUKOS DE ZAZ Y ZAZ HIJO SDE PUTA POR SACAR ESTA ROLA PINCHE PERROS MAL PARIDOS, OLDIES ARE FOREVER ESE Q NOOOO??

  • Love this. As a DJ, I'll play this at a wedding about 12:00, guaranteed, a few older couples shed a tear and tell me 'thank-you' for playing it...

  • The oldies are forever , they can move you all your life.

  • *******GOLD*********

  • @WarThug13: I noticed him first at :57 & just wanted to slap the white off his teeth. Smug looking jerk. He obviously did not know a good thing when he saw it, much less when he heard it. Karma's a bit-- & no one knows his name, but we all still remember The Satins.

  • @ritab52 Alan Freed actually helped promote black & white & racially mixed groups, so you're nuts like your friend doogman there. enjoy

  • on my first note... i am prolly the youngest one here... on another, since they sang in times of racism, i am betting racist critics pronounced their names differently to make them sound demonic.

  • @thedougman2008 uh to whom are you refering...? I think you are just looking for racism & hearing what you want to hear. Racsim exists today, recognize it then jump on those ppl. I would like to add that Alan Freed is a Jew.....so, why would he deliberately mis-pronounce their name in a demonic manner......? lol that is an absurd thought. Do not generalize an entire group of ppl for the actions of a few. Obviously you know nothing of the 1950's. dolt

  • so cheerful and uplifting!

  • This is the grandaddy of all the doo wop songs. Terrific

  • @TheHuerta I'll dance with you ;) @Anotherme21 Their isn't anything wrong with all the thug music... It just makes this song, that much...... more special!

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  • I LOVE THIS SOOONG SOO MUCH!!<3 I AM GOING TO BE 21 AND I LOVE THIS KIND OF MUSIC I REALLY WISH I WAS BORN DURING THIS TIME EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT ROMANCE NOW IS JUST SEX :( I DON'T LIKE MY GENERATION RIGHT NOW. BEAUTIFUL MUSIC♥ & I LOVE THE MOVIE DIRTY DANCING OF COURSE THIS SONG COMES OUT IN THAT MOVIE :D

  • @TheHuerta09 Word. I'm not exactly proud of the majority of our generation either. (22 by the way) I'm all about romance too, but nowadays, it's all about "thug life". ...Whatever, my grandma would have loved the way I look at relationships.

  • @AnotherMe21 THUG LIFE MOTHA FUCKA!!!!!!!!! A BUT I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG

  • @AnotherMe21 amen to that

  • @AnotherMe21 Not only your grandma BUT MOST OF ALL YOUR HUSBAND too! Stay blessed!

  • @AnotherMe21 Right on man, now if only women could get back to it amirite? If another dame gets mad at me for being a gentleman, I may go into exile!

  • @halfaddict Yeah, it's almost like MOST girls punish you for being a nice guy. And when you're completely honest in a relationship, you get lied to.

  • Still the undisputed champion of Doo-Wop.

  • This is my favorite song from the Five Satins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

  • the guy in the middle messes up around 2:00 into it... he raises his left hand instead of his right... lol still awsome song... did anyone else catch dat

  • honestly, fuck off with the commercials

  • =)

  • 1956...A CLASSIC!!!

  • I like today's music. But sometime's it's nice to take a break of it for this gold.

  • This is some really good, hold your sweeetie close, slow dancing music.

  • One of my favorite songs of all time!!

  • YES I REMEMBER DANCING TO THIS FANTASTIC SONG!!!

    WHAT A FANTASTIC MEMORY!

  • For those of you who do not know, this is considered the national anthem of Doo Wop by many, if not most, old head R&B afficionados. Some would argue it's 'Earth Angel' by the Penguins, and that works too!

  • I like the Whitesnake version of Still Of The Night too :)

  • Such classic dancing! I performed an arrangement of this with the boys in my high school chorale and all we got to do was the snapping and one or two spins. It was great though, we all had white t-shirts and blue jeans with slicked back hair (50s style!). It was great fun to be had by all. Right before we did that, the girls in the group sang Mr. Sandman with our teacher on the double bass. Both were great but I think the boys were better.

  • Weren't there 5 Satins last year?

  • Playlist..Greatest Songs Of All Time!!

  • heard this ong on the radio yesterday, immediatwly started singing along.......and yes im 15

  • that is crazy I thot white people sang this song

  • I always loved this song. But if they are called the 5 satins, how come only 4 in the group? Just wondering.

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  • magnífico, sencillamente, magnífico.

    

  • Classic.

  • As amazing and wonderful as this song and group was, Imagine they probably got paid pennies to perform, had to come through the back or side entrance and probably couldn't even get a meal there or use a clean,decent bathroom!! SMFH!

  • Yeah, that handsome guy at 2:30 with the girl....let's take him out back and kick the shit out of him......just kidding

  • they don't have any nigger bands...red neck country boy!!!

    if a person lived in the midwest,north, eastern,you went to the school that was in my distract. Mine school happen to be a mixed distract.mixed school,,no big thing!!!

  • Back when you could mime a song with no microphone and get away with it!

    Watch this space Justin B!

    Great song!

  • lmao @wkurtin i love you

  • if this song were a potato, itd be a good potato

  • @wkurtin omfg thats for true

  • The simplicity and awesomeness all at once.

  • thank you , love all these old classics..now days make my own...take a peek..

  • Love it....

  • Brings back memories.

    P.s I'm only 11 ;)

  • We lived on Cooper Ave in Queens and on our street we had an underpass that you used to cross under the tressel. My older Brother James and his friends would bring the Webcore Recorder and plug into the lights and record this wonderful piece of music. I remember.

    DJDANNYV-LONG ISLAND

  • this is the best song to dance to with the one you love

  • I'm 16 and I sing with this my uncle and my Dad at my grandmom's funeral 3 years ago.. Rip Donna Sue Rollins.<3

  • Bravo Krystal-and you picked the very best .

  • @woundedrider Who give a fuck what you like? ;)

  • The crime is murder, the defendant is "Boyz ii men"

  • Mafia 2

  • that guy at the start is like another Adamo

  • Actually, he wrote it while on a ship while enlisted in the U. S. Navy on a ship out in the ocean somewhere. He couldn't even perform it until he got out of the Navy. The song, by that time, had become a big hit. Very frustrating for him.

  • @freddiemesquit1 I so get that...my Dad was WWII Navy, radar...he'd get that and then some...God bless!