“STAY”

celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020, his sole Top 40 hit as a singer, which reached No. 1 in November 1960 by Maurice Williams and The Zodiacs. In the prior decade, Maurice had been a member of the R&B group The Gladiolas, with the doo-wop song “Little Darlin’,” which was successfully covered by the Canadian doo-wop quartet The Diamonds, reaching No. 2. Williams, who is working on his autobiography with Daniel Coston, shared with , “I wrote ‘Stay’ about the as the shortest song to ever make the Top 10.”