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.

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.

* 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.

* September 30 – Frankie Lymon, American singer ( d. 1968 )

* February 27 – Ex-Teenagers singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem.

* February 27 – Frankie Lymon, American singer ( b. 1942 )

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 ?".

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.

The show included entertainers such as Frankie Lymon, The Supremes, Marian Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, LaVern Baker, Harry Belafonte, James Brown, Godfrey Cambridge, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bill Cosby, Count Basie, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bo Diddley, Rocío Dúrcal, Duke Ellington, Lola Falana, The 5th Dimension, Ella Fitzgerald, The Four Tops, Aretha Franklin, Dick Gregory, W. C. Handy, Lena Horne, The Jackson 5, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Moms Mabley, Johnny Mathis, The Miracles ( later known as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles ), Melba Moore, The Platters, Leontyne Price, Richard Pryor, Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Nipsey Russell, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, The Temptations, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Tina Turner ( at the time known as " The Ike & Tina Turner Revue "), Leslie Uggams, William Warfield, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Flip Wilson, Jackie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, and Stevie Wonder.

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 ).

# redirect Frankie Lymon

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.

Frankie Lymon was born in Harlem to a truck driver father and a mother who worked as a maid.

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 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.

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

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.

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

The 1963 production and its 1986 revival were staged at the Strand Theatre and the Piccadilly Theatre respectively, and featured Frankie Howerd starring as Pseudolus, Kenneth Connor as Hysterium, ' Monsewer ' Eddie Gray as Senex, Jon Pertwee as Marcus Lycus and Leon Greene as Miles Gloriosus.

Timmy T, Caleb-B, SF Spanish Fly, Angelina, One Voice, M: G, Stephanie Fastro & The S Factor are from the Bay Area, and San Diego artists Gustavo, Alex, Jose Santos, Robert Romo of the group Internal Affairs, and Frankie J were popular freestyle artists from southern California.

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.

Sandra Cameron and Larry Schulz of the Cameron Dance Center Inc in New York were instrumental in bringing Al Minns and Frankie Manning back into teaching Lindy Hop at their dance center.

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.

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It was a major influence on the New Romantics in Britain, acts like Adam Ant and Flock of Seagulls extended it, and its androgyny and sexual politics were picked up by acts including Culture Club, Bronski Beat and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

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.

The studio musicians who helped record " Runaway " – known as The All Star Review – were guitarist Tim Pierce, keyboardist Roy Bittan, drummer Frankie LaRocka, and bassist Hugh McDonald.

The Spitfire Boys were mainly notable for including in their line-up Peter Clarke, who went on to drum for The Slits and later Siouxsie and the Banshees ( as well as marrying Siouxsie of the Banshees ) as Budgie, and Paul Rutherford, later better known for being a member of 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Examples of this tactic were Duran Duran's aforementioned " Girls on Film " and Frankie Goes to Hollywood with " Relax ", directed by Bernard Rose.

Beer sales were at an all-time high and ticket sales were a record year beating out Wayne Newton, Frankie Valli and Alabama combined.

George Snowden, Frankie Manning and George Sullivan were all dismissed by prospective partners for having allegedly inadequate dance skills.

Some notable musicians who were members of the orchestra include violinists Samuel Antek, Henry Clifton, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet ( concertmaster 1952-54 ), Harry Lookofsky, Mischa Mischakoff ( concertmaster 1937-1952 ), Albert Pratz, David Sarser, Oscar Shumsky, Herman Spielberg and Andor Toth ; violists Carlton Cooley, Milton Katims, William Primrose, and Tibor Serly ; cellists Frank Miller, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro and Alan Shulman ; double bassists Homer Mensch and Oscar G. Zimmerman ; flutists Carmine Coppola, Arthur Lora and Paul Renzi ; clarinetists Augustin Duques, Al Gallodoro, David Weber and Alexander Williams ; saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer ; oboists Robert Bloom and Paolo Renzi ; bassoonists Elias Carmen, Benjamin Kohon, William Polisi, Leonard Sharrow and Arthur Weisberg ; French horn players Arthur Berv, Harry Berv, Jack Berv and Albert Stagliano ; and tuba player William Bell, among others.

Rocky, Belz and 22-year-old Frankie Farrell ( son of Italian mobster Louis Fratto ) were killed on impact.

Among other world champions that he beat were Frankie Klick, Baby Arizmendi, Jimmy McLarnin and Kid Chocolate.

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

In the meantime, The 4 Seasons released recordings under a variety of names, including The Valli Boys, The Wonder Who ?, and Frankie Valli ( every Valli " solo " recording from 1965 to " My Eyes Adored You " in 1975 had the same production team as The Four Seasons that were recorded at the same time-his first post-1950s single without The Four Seasons was 1975's " Swearin ' to God ").

A recording that was destined to reach the upper parts of the UK Singles Chart, " The Night ", was not commercially released as a single by Motown in the United States after promotional copies ( showing the artist as Frankie Valli ) were distributed in 1971.

Although early single releases of " Why Do Fools Fall in Love " credit Frankie Lymon, Herman Santiago, and Jimmy Merchant as co-writers, later releases and cover versions were attributed to Lymon and George Goldner.