- Five Satins Trivia: While serving in the U.S. Army, Fred Parris wrote "In the Still of the Nite" while on evening guard duty. ...
- ... Fred Parris wrote it about a former girlfriend he was hoping would return to him. She never did - when she moved from Connecticut to California, he never saw her again. She likely never knew the song was about her.
- Five Satins Trivia: "In the Still of the Nite" was recorded in the basement of St. Bernadette Church Hall in The Five Satins` hometown of New Haven, Connecticut while Fred Parris was on leave from the army.
- Five Satins Trivia: The church basement had great acoustics and was insulated from ambient noise, making it a perfect place to record.
- First released on the Standard record label, "In the Still of the Nite" was at first given the title "I'll Remember".
- Five Satins Trivia: On the same day they recorded In The Still of the Nite, They also recorded an uptempo track called "The Jones Girl," which was issued as the A-side of the single, with "In The Still Of The Nite" the flip...
- .... Disc jockeys played the B-side instead, and the song took off on the East Coast, especially in New York City, where it went to #1 on the local chart.
- Five Satins Trivia: When they recorded "In the Still of the Nite", there were only four members of the group, but they called themselves The Five Satins because that was the trend, with groups like...
- ...The Four Lads and The Four Coins falling out of favor to acts like The Five Crowns and The Five Royales. The lineup was rather fluid, and had a lot to do with who was available, since some of the members were in the military.
- Five Satins Trivia: "In the Still of the Nite", released three times, is the only song to have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 three separate times, by the same artist with the same version each time.
- Five Satins Trivia: Over its three separate releases, "In the Still of the Nite" sold over ten million copies.
- Five Satins Trivia: A plaintive doo wop, doo wah refrain is heard in "In the Still of the Nite", and it may be the origin the term "Doo-Wop".
- Five Satins Trivia: The song was spelled as "In the Still of the Nite" to avoid confusion with Cole Porter's "In the Still of the Night".
- Five Satins Trivia: In 1982, the group had its last hit with a doo wop medley entitled "Memories of Days Gone By", but it only reached #71 on the pop charts.
