...ah-of the ny-yight
o-o-oh darlin
ho-old me ty-yight

Cause I love
luh-uv you so-o
Promise you'll never
Le-het me go-o
In the still
Of the ny-yight (in the still -- of the ny-yight)

Who's gonna take the bass "I-Re-Mem-Ber / I-Re-Mem-Ber" on the bridge?

One of my all-time favorites, both as a record to listen to and as a sing-along to recreate.

My *absolute* favorite do-wop recording is the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes for You," but for listening only. I wouldn't even *try* to teach an audience of drunken partyers to sing the background while I try to take the lead.

The late great Ernie K-Doe click here, scroll down to 2d photo
was a member of the Flamingos as a teenager. His mother moved him from New Orleans to Chicago in an effort to break into the biz, and Ernie caught the ear of Harvey Fuqua.

After many years of uncharacteristic silence on the subject, sometime around 2000/2001 he suddenly began claiming credit for that wonderful lead vocal. Ernie was a notorious self-promoting bullshitter and I was reluctant to believe him; however, his young face is undeniably present in the group photo on the front off at least one Flamingos album cover. I tend to believe that K-Doe sang on the record but as one of the background voices -- not as the lead, which sounds nothing like him. Of course, he was very young at the time and may have had a clearer, higher tenor voice than what we hear on his later recordings under his own name.