With Sheb Wooley, The Champs, Link Wray and his Ray Men, Frankie Avalon, The Kalin Twins, and Dicky Doo & The Don ' ts, Jan & Arnie were a featured act on the Summer Dance Party that toured the US East Coast, including Pennyslvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in July 1958.

After Hurt's renditions of " Frankie " and " Spike Driver Blues " were included in The Anthology of American Folk Music in 1952, and an Australian man discovered a copy of " Avalon Blues ", there became increased interest in finding Hurt himself.

* 1939 – Frankie Avalon, American actor and singer

*" Venus " ( Frankie Avalon song )

** Frankie Avalon, American singer and actor

The great success of young rock stars like Elvis Presley and film stars like James Dean and Sal Mineo in the 1950s, as well as the wider emergence of youth subcultures, led promoters to the deliberate creation of teen idols such as Frankie Avalon and Fabian — and to artists who deliberately cultivated a ( safer ) idol image, like Paul Anka.

Clokey is credited with the clay-animation title sequence for the 1965 beach movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine starring Vincent Price and Frankie Avalon.

* Frankie Avalon, actor and singer

: Many Italian Americans actors became well known in movies and TV, such as: Don Ameche, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anne Bancroft ( Anna Italiano ), Ernest Borgnine ( Ermes Borgnino ), Robert Alda, Alan Alda, Lou Costello, Frank Langella, Frankie Avalon ( Avallone ), Annette Funicello, James Darren ( Ercolani ), Jimmy Durante, Anthony Franciosa, Sal Mineo, Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Aldo Ray ( DaRe ), Richard Conte, Bernadette Peters ( Lazzara ), Connie Stevens ( Concetta Ingoglia ), Richard Crenna, Dom DeLuise, Armand Assante, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Joe Mantegna, John Travolta, Tony Danza, Alyssa Milano, Paul Sorvino, Mira Sorvino, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Rene Russo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Nicolas Cage ( Coppola ), Stanley Tucci, Marissa Tomei, John Turturro and Sylvester Stallone.

Later, Jimmy Clanton, Frankie Avalon, and Fabian were hired to finish the tour in place of the three deceased headliners.

Recently he has been appearing with Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell to perform concerts as The Golden Boys.

The 1980 film The Idolmaker, written by Edward Di Lorenzo and directed by Taylor Hackford, was a thinly-disguised biography of Fabian ( called " Caesare " in the film ), as well as songwriter / producer Marcucci ( called " Vinnie Vacarri ") and Frankie Avalon ( called " Tommy Dee ").

* Former teen idol Frankie Avalon played himself ( as Al's cousin ), singing his signature song " Venus " to a swooning Jenny Piccolo at the Leopard Lodge's annual " Poo Bah Doodah " musical.

In 1987, in support of their first full-length album, In Your Face, the band performed " Jamaica Ska " in the Annette Funicello / Frankie Avalon reunion movie Back to the Beach.

* Panic in Year Zero !, starring Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon

Johnny moved to Chancellor Records, which had had success with teen idols like Fabian and Frankie Avalon.

* Frankie Avalon, American actor, singer and teen idol

2006 featured performances by Frankie Avalon, The Oak Ridge Boys, Jars of Clay and AG Silver.

These developments, combined with a major advertising campaign featuring singer and actor Frankie Avalon, led to significant growth and a new image that would make Sonic a nationally recognized name.

One of the company's most memorable advertising campaigns, which ran from 1987 to 1993, featured Frankie Avalon.

Frankie Avalon ( born September 18, 1940 ) is an American actor, singer, playwright, and former teen idol.

Afterwards, Avalon turned to marketing and created Frankie Avalon Products, a line of health and cosmetic aids.

Avalon is also mentioned in " It Takes Two ", a song from the hit musical Hairspray, sung by the character Link Larkin, and in a song by the Wu Tang Clan called " The City " which refers to his experiences of being a big part of the beach party film genre (" Ride the wave like Frankie Avalon ").

It was not only the first Frankie single to be featured on CD single, it was also the first single to not feature a cassette release-new rules limited the number items that could count toward the official charts, following the earlier ZTT excesses.

Frankie Knuckles used the same notes in his more famous 1987 version of " Your Love ", which also featured Principle on vocals.

Through the then relatively new science of forensic ballistics, both weapons were determined to have been used in the massacre – and that one of Burke's Tommy guns had also been used to murder New York mobster Frankie Yale a year and a half earlier.

One of them had also been used in the murder of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale, which confirmed the New York Police Department ’ s long-held theory that Burke, and by extension Al Capone, had been responsible for Yale's death.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.

As well as these versions, the name has also been used as the stage name of a New York City-based singer-songwriter, an LP by Frankie Armstrong, Brian Pearson, Blowzabella and Jon Gillaspie, and for the title of an Irish reel.

It was also notable for Pertwee's Frankie Howerd impersonation, Hankie Flowered, and Hugh Paddick's working-class pop singer Ricky Livid – the name being a mickey-take on contemporary pop singers ' stage names such as Marty Wilde and Billy Fury.

Benitez turned pro at 15, a young prodigy who was managed by his father Gregorio Benitez, was a member of one of Puerto Rico's most famous boxing families, his brothers Frankie and Gregory Benitez having also been top contenders in the 1970s.

Given his jazz and salsa conga playing experience and knowledge ( working as a sideman with such bands as salsa's Frankie Dante's Orquesta Flamboyan and jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp ), Dawson also created the long running " Salsa Meets Jazz " weekly concert series at the Village Gate jazz club where jazz musicians would sit in with an established salsa band, for example Dexter Gordon jamming with the Machito band.

Eric also proves himself to be very protective over Cory throughout the show, intervening when the school bully decides to make Cory his target and pulling him out of the wrestling ring during a fight against Frankie the school ' enforcer '.

Adair also sought to work closely with Belfast-based dissidents such as Frankie Curry and Jackie Mahood, provoking further anger from the UVF.

He also starred in a recurring role as Mr. Ehlert, owner of the car dealership where Frankie and Bob work on the ABC-TV series The Middle.

He also wrote a non-Sandman miniseries, My Faith in Frankie ( 2004 ), the comicbook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ( 2005-6 ) and the OGN God Save the Queen ( 2007 ).

Savoy style is also said to be characterized by a pronounced downwards ' bounce ', which is again something of a misnomer, as different dancers employed varying degrees and types of ' bounce ', and observers of Frankie Manning have noted changes in his own dancing style in this respect the years.

Gambino also allegedly said to Castellano: " I want a picture of me and Frankie ".

After almost signing with Frankie Crocker and Herb Hamlett as their managers, the group settled on Vicki Wickham, after Dusty Springfield, who was also managed by Wickham and was a fan of the Bluebelles insisted Wickham worked with them.

The strip also influenced Little Annie Rooney ( Jan. 10, 1927-1966 ) and Frankie Doodle ( 1934-1938 ).

They also appeared together in a 1930 ' film revue ' entitled Comets, featuring British stage, musical and variety acts, in which they sang in duet ' The Ballad of Frankie and Johnnie.

She also hires legendary gunfighter Kid Shelleen ( Lee Marvin ) to come and help protect her father from fast-drawing Tim Strawn ( also Marvin ), alias Silvernose, the hired killer who is threatening Frankie.

In 1957 Le Mesurier also had an uncredited role as a cook in The Admirable Crichton and portrayed a commanding officer in Herbert Wilcox's comedy musical These Dangerous Years, co-starring George Baker, Frankie Vaughan, Carole Lesley and Thora Hird.

Lymon's father, Howard Lymon, also sang in a gospel group known as the Harlemaires ; Frankie Lymon and his brothers Lewis and Howie sang with the Harlemaire Juniors ( a fourth Lymon brother, Timmy, was a singer, though not with the Harlemaire Juniors ).

The group, which made its most popular recordings with young Frankie Lymon as lead singer, is also noted for being rock's first all-teenaged act.

Frankie also tells them that if they should run into any trouble, they should call Mr. Smith at the cell phone number, that he gives them.