Top Unknown/Underrated Song: "In The Still Of The Night" by the Five Satins

Get ready for one of our highest-rated "Unknown/Underrated Songs of the Rock Era*".  Originally released in 1956, the song only peaked at #24.  Believing in the song, the Five Satins released it again in 1960, but it did worse at #81.  They tried again the following year, but it stopped at #99.

Those numbers have to be taken into account when judging a song years later, but "In The Still Of The Night" has held up well over time.

 

"In The Still Of The Night"

Five Satins

 

Lyrics and Music by Fred Parris

 

In the still of the night
I held you
Held you tight
Cause I love
Love you so
Promise Ill never
Let you go
In the still of the night

I remember
That night in May
The stars were bright above
Ill hope and Ill pray
To keep your precious love
Well before the light
Hold me again
With all of your might
In the still of the night
(In the still of the night)

So before the light
Hold me again
With all of your might
In the still of the night
(In the still of the night)
In the still of the night