The Jive Five

The Jive Five. Soundtrack: The Sopranos. 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. However, when be became a teenager Eugene switched from gospel to the burgeoning "doo-wop" street sound, and...