Essential Doo Wop - The Mello-Kings Meet The Five Satins

For this release in the Blue Label Essential Doo Wop series we focus on two outstanding groups of the era, The Mello-Kings and The Five Satins. Influenced by the success of Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers, The Mello-Kings were formed by two brothers Bob and Jerry Scholl with their buddy Eddie Quinn. Adding Neil Arena singing baritone and Larry Esposito singing bass the boys were hot and ready to go! The Doo Wop era gave us many great classic songs many of which would never become hits, but were classics none the less! Such is the case with The Mello-Kings who released nine singles without ever reaching the success of their heroes The Teenagers. The Five Satins however, led by Fred Parris, found a great deal more success and lasted in various permutations until the end of the century. Following a number of unsuccessful singles for minor labels they finally hit the big time with a Fred Parris penned song 'In The Still Of The Night' (featured here) which truly became a Doo Wop classic and endures as a radio favourite to this day.