Are the Jive Five still alive?

Are the Jive Five still alive?

Deaths. Norman Johnson died in 1970. Webster Harris died in 2003. Maurice Unthank died on July 21, 2008.

Who was the lead singer of the Jive Five?

Eugene PittSince 1959
Richard FisherSince 1970
The Jive Five/Lead singers

Eugene Pitt, the lead singer of the Jive Five, a doo-wop group that reached the Top 10 in 1961 with “My True Story” and endured long past doo-wop’s heyday by mingling their sound with ascendant genres like funk, disco and soul, died on June 29 at his home in Newberry, S.C. He was 80.

Where are the Jive Five from?

Brooklyn
The Jive Five was a 1950s R&B group from the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, NY. The group was started by Eugene Pitt, whose father was a gospel singer and taught his children how to sing harmony; they sang as a group in churches in the early 1950s.

Who sang I’m a happy man?

The Jive Five
I’m a Happy Man/Artists

Who is the current leader of the Jive Five?

Maurice Unthank took over as band leader. The group released a single in 2016 entitled “It’s Christmas”, written by Pitt and the Loria’s. It was credited to ‘Eugene Pitt and the Jive Five’ and featured Pitt, Best, Gill, Unthank, and the Loria’s.

When did the Jive Five have their first hit?

The Jive Five is an American doo wop group. They are best known for their debut hit single, “My True Story” (1961), the Nickelodeon bumper jingles in the 1980s and 1990s, and the fact that they outlasted most of their doo wop musical peers, by re-modelling themselves as a soul group in the 1960s and beyond.

When was my true story by the Jive Five released?

The group, by then renamed “The Jive Five”, found chart success in 1961 with ” My True Story ” on Beltone Records, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Hot R&B Singles chart for three weeks.

When did Jive Five release we will never fall?

The group recorded a tribute song to the September 11 attacks victims and heroes, named “We Will Never Fall”. It was a Jive Five release in 2001 that was credited to the group “Voices for America”.