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Carter.“I was a rather social guy in high school and went to all the dances,” Carter told the crowd before the Satins began, “and these songs had a way of getting into your head.”He told the story about how when St. Bernadette honored Parris at a prayer service a year and a half ago, a bunch of children learned “In The Still Of The Night” to sing along, and took the song home to their families — and on the day of the service all of their parents and siblings sang along, as well.“The song is timeless” and has been enjoyed by “so many people over the years,” Carter said.“The song will never die!” said Edward Flynn, a St. Bernadette parishioner and retired New Haven firefighter who graduated from Wilbur Cross High School with Mazzetta in 1953, the same year Parris graduated from James Hillhouse High School.Mazzetta, 82 — the guy who hooked the Satins and the late producer Marty Kugell of New Haven’s Standord Records up with St. Bernadette’s as a place to record — had a stroke a couple of years ago and said he doesn’t blow his sax anymore.Mazzetta, a retired grocery store clerk, said he’s lived a pretty normal life since those days — and doesn’t think playing on “In The Still Of The Night” changed his life in any measurable way.But his little place in history still is a point of pride for him.“You know how many people recorded this song?” he asked. 5

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It reached #16 in the U.K., #18 on the U.S.

Parris’s mid-’50s smash “In the Still of the Night”—which he wrote and helped sing as the leader of the doo-wop group the Five Satins—is used so prominently in The Irishman it …

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After recording it, they shipped out just days later in Denby’s case; weeks later in Parris’ case.Those who remained had to recruit a new group to tour to support the release — and the four (yes, four) Five Satins vocalists and four musicians who laid down those tracks never again performed together with exactly that lineup.

“This song just had a feeling, a meaning,” and even though he’s too young to have been around for doo wop’sgolden years, “It was like magic when ‘In The Still Of The Night’ started playing.”Growing up,Lubinsky’s father used to tell him, “This is the song your mother and I used to listen to” — and on his death bed two years ago, the elder Levinsky told his son that he probably was conceived while “In The Still Of The Night” was playing, he said.If that’s the case, Lubinsky certainly wasn’t alone.“I’m pleasantly surprised” by all the attention so late in life, said Parris, who has been honored twice in recent years by the city and once by St. Bernadette.On his way in, he was impressed by all the tech trucks in the St. Bernadette’s parking lot — and by the fact the filming would take place in the church’s sanctuary and not the basement, where the original recording took place.He said, half jokingly, “I’ve got my doctor with me over here, just in case.”Langley, who is no stranger to making music both in New Haven’s churches and the area’s nightspots — in addition to playing with Parris over the past decade or so — said, “I’m just blessed and fortunate that I’m out there playing with him.”The significance of “In The Still Of The Night” — recorded on Feb. 19, 1956 — in the music world and in American culture was lost on no one in the church, including the Rev.