In 1952, after months of performing at local functions, The Five Sharps were spotted by a producer and taken into a studio to record two songs.
[4] First tenor Bobby Ward remembers that sales of "Stormy Weather" were so bad that he and the other members had to buy their own copies, even though they had never been paid for the recording in the first place.
Slim admitted in June 1965 that the record "broke under [his] arm" on the way home from the studio, but at other times he claimed that his pet raccoon, Teddy, had broken the disc by sitting on it.
In 1964, as the legend of the song grew, Jubilee hired a new group of musicians, under the name of The Five Sharps.
Bassett joined late-period incarnations of both the Drifters and the Flamingos, and later, formed the 1970s band, Creative Funk.
Bobby Ward cut one unsuccessful record titled "The Key To The City" in New York in the mid 1960s, but was largely inactive musically.