In 1956, an R & B " Top Stars of ' 56 " tour took place, with headliners Al Hibbler, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and Carl Perkins, whose " Blue Suede Shoes " was very popular with R & B music buyers.

In 1956 Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers appeared on the Frankie Laine show in New York, which was televised nationally, performing their hit " Why Do Fools Fall in Love ?".

An album, The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon, was issued in December 1956.

* 1956: 701 The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon

Goldner released the record, with " Please Be Mine " on the " B " side, under the name " Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers ", on his new " Gee Records " subsidiary, in January 1956.

*" Why Do Fools Fall in Love " ( song ), a 1956 song by doo-wop group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers

* 1956: Lee Konitz Featuring Hans Koller, Lars Gullin, Roland Kovac ( Swingtime )

The American vocal group Deep River Boys Featuring Harry Douglas with Pete Brown's orchestra recorded it in Oslo on August 30, 1956.

* Deep River Boys Featuring Harry Douglas with Pete Brown's Orchestra ( Recorded in Oslo on August 23, 1956 and released on the 78 rpm record HMV AL 6019 )

* May 30 – Frankie Trumbauer, US saxophonist, bandleader and singer ( d. 1956 )

From 1956 until 1960, the group stayed together, performing in clubs and lounges as The Four Lovers and recording on various record labels with various names: Frankie Tyler, Frankie Valley, Frankie Valley and the Travelers, Frankie Valle and the Romans, The Village Voices, and The Topics are some of the 18 " stage names " used individually or collectively by the members of the group.

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She starred with Frankie Howerd and Dennis Price in her only film role as Ruby, in the 1956 farce, A Touch of the Sun.

In 1956 the theme song was released on Parlophone records by Dick James with Stephen James and his chums and Ron Goodwin's Orchestra and reached number 14 in the UK charts ( 78rpm single: R. 4117 / 45rpm single: MSP6199 ), and by PYE records as a 78rpm single by Gary Miller with Tony Osbourne orchestra and the Beryl Stott chorus ( PYE N. 15020 ) and reached number 10 on the UK charts, versions by Frankie Laine ( CBS Coronet ), Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra ( Capitol ), Alan Dale ( Coral ), Joe Reisman's orchestra and chorus ( RCA Victor ) and Ronnie Ronaldo ( Colombia ) were also issued.

* Frankie Howerd ( 1956 )

Orie Frank (" Frankie " or " Tram ") Trumbauer ( May 30, 1901 – June 11, 1956 ) was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s.

* Frankie Gavin ( 1956 )

In 1956, Weld played the lead in Rock, Rock, Rock, which featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette.

Doo wop diversified considerably later in the decade, with groups like The Crows (" Gee "), creating a style of uptempo doo wop and the ballad style via The Penguins (" Earth Angel "), while singers like Frankie Lymon became sensations ; Lymon became the first black teen idol in the country's history after the release of the Top 40 pop hit " Why Do Fools Fall in Love " ( 1956 ).

In 1956, Spot and his then wife Rita were attacked outside their Paddington home-by " Mad " Frankie Fraser, Bobby Warren.

* Cocktail Time with Frankie Carle, RCA Victor ( LPM-1221, 1956 )

* Frankie Carle's Sweethearts, RCA Victor ( LPM 1222, 1956 )

The song was revived by Frankie Laine in 1952, and subsequently recorded again in 1956 by Patience and Prudence, who reached # 4 on the Billboard charts with their version, and also by Lawrence Welk with The Lennon Sisters and the duo of Karen Chandler and Jimmy Wakely, Ann Shelton and The Duprees.

The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

* 1942 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter ( The Teenagers ) ( d. 1968 )

Popular Doo Wop and Rock-n-Roll bands of the mid to late 1950s include The Platters, The Flamingos, The Dells, The Silhouettes, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Danny and the Juniors, The Coasters, The Drifters, The Del-Vikings and Dion and the Belmonts.

In the early development of doo-wop, especially in U. S. East Coast cities, Puerto Ricans were the lead singers in some groups with black and white members ; such groups included The Crests, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, the Five Discs and the Tune Weavers.

" Other performers on the tour were Chuck Berry and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.

During his teen years Clinton formed a doo wop group inspired by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers called The Parliaments while straightening hair at a barber salon in Plainfield.

Parliament is a funk / R & B band whose influences are the funky side of Hendrix and Sly Stone, Motown soul groups turned funk groups like the Temptations, the political songs of the Impressions, Rufus Thomas ' southern funk, doo-wop groups like the Coasters for the humour and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers.

The group was originally based on Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, but by the 1960s had developed a unique sound based on emerging styles of soul and funk music, with a notable penchant for bizarre lyrics.

They are Elvis Presley's " Heartbreak Hotel " (# 1 pop, # 6 R & B ), Carl Perkins ' " Blue Suede Shoes " (# 4 pop, # 3 R & B ), Little Richard's " Long Tall Sally " (# 9 pop, # 1 R & B ), the Platters ' " Magic Touch " (# 10 pop, # 7 R & B ) and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers ' " Why Do Fools Fall in Love " (# 7 pop, # 4 R & B ).

Franklin Joseph " Frankie " Lymon ( September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968 ) was an American rock and roll / rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of a New York City-based early rock and roll group, The Teenagers.

The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes, and two Puerto Rican members, Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni.

The disc jockeys always called them " Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers ".

With the release of " I Want You To Be My Girl ", the group's second single, The Teenagers became Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers.

The group's last single, " Goody Goody " backed with " Creation of Love ," initially retained the " Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers " credit, but they were actually solo recordings ( with backing by session singers ).

Lymon had officially departed from the group by September 1957 ; an in-progress studio album called Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers at the London Palladium was instead issued as a Lymon solo release.

Although their period of success was brief, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers ' string of hits were highly influential on the rock and R & B performers who followed them.

Motown founder Berry Gordy based much of the Jackson 5's sound on Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers ' recordings, and the Teenagers are believed to be the original model for many of the other Motown groups he cultivated.

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, and into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000.

* ² Early copies released as by " The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon "; billing on later pressings changed to " Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers "