Zola Taylor, Elizabeth Waters, and Emira Eagle each approached Morris Levy, the music impressario who retained possession of Lymon's copyrights and his royalties, claiming to be Lymon's rightful widow ; Lymon had neglected to divorce both Taylor and Waters.

Why Do Fools Fall in Love tells a comedic, fictionalized version of Lymon's story from the points of view of his three wives as they battle in court for the rights to his estate.

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 ).

Roulette Records expressed interest in releasing Lymon's records in conjunction with Big Apple and scheduled a recording session for February 28.

" That was followed by a hit cover of Frankie Lymon's " Why Do Fools Fall in Love.

After R & B singer Diana Ross returned " Why Do Fools Fall in Love " to the Top Ten in 1981, a major controversy concerning Lymon's estate ensued.

The song Harlem Roulette by The Mountain Goats off their 2012 album Transcendental Youth contains reference to Frankie Lymon and has been stated by frontman John Darnielle to be about the last night of Lymon's life.

Frankie Laine referred to it as " rock and roll " but Lymon's extreme youth made the style appeal to a young and enthusiastic audience.

Dennis Jackson of Columbus, Georgia, was one of the main influences in Lymon's life.

His personal donation of $ 500 helped start Lymon's career.

Lymon's slowly declining sales fell sharply after his voice changed and he lost his signature soprano voice.

Lymon's marriage to Waters was not legal in the beginning, because she was still married to her first husband.

Taylor claimed to have married Lymon in Mexico in 1965, although their relationship ended several months later purportedly because of Lymon's drug habits.

Lymon's troubles extended to others after his death.

The complex issue resulted in lawsuits and counter-lawsuits, and in 1986, the first of several court cases concerning the ownership of Lymon's estate began.

Lymon's marriage to Eagle, on the other hand, was properly documented as having taken place at the Beulah Grove Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, in 1967 ; however, the singer was still apparently twice-married and never divorced when he married Eagle.

The first decision was made in Waters ' favor ; Eagle appealed, and in 1989, the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court reversed the original decision and awarded Lymon's estate to Eagle.

Lymon was never paid his songwriting royalties during his lifetime ; one result of Emira Eagle's legal victory was that Lymon's estate would finally begin receiving monetary compensation from his hit song's success.

Lymon's high-voiced sound is said to be a direct predecessor of the girl group sound, and the list of performers who name him as an influence include Michael Jackson, Ronnie Spector, Diana Ross, The Chantels, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Len Barry, and The Beach Boys, among others.

In the 1980s, the Teenagers had resorted to using a female singer to imitate Lymon's prepubescent voice ; and Pearl McKinnon joined the band.

In 1986, three women claiming to be Lymon's widow filed a law suit in New York's Superior Court claiming the rights to the song.

You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.

For this story of an American couple who meet and fall in love in Israel, Mr. Herman has written songs that are warmly melodious and dance music that sparkles.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

" How they create their music is described on their website :" each album is written and recorded over the course of a musically immersive seven days, and tells a unique story.

A film editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing, as well as the actors ' performances to effectively " re-imagine " and even rewrite the film to craft a cohesive whole.

Similarly to its precursor in the visual arts, musical impressionism focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story as in program music.

The story is the basis of an opera, The Judgment of Paris, with a libretto by William Congreve, that was set to music by four composers in London, 1700-1701.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

Passages in this story anticipate such latter-day digital configurations as Google Book Search, Google Video Search, PDA devices, podcasting and portable music players.

* 1997: The story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff, narration, music from Francis Poulenc, Chichester Festival, Great Britain

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

In 2003, the British theatre company Punchdrunk used The Beaufoy Building in London, an old Victorian school to stage " Sleep No More ", the story of Macbeth in the style of a Hitchcock thriller, using reworked music from the soundtrack of classic Hitchcock films.

The plot surrounds a love story between two individuals who want to play music.

The story and emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole.

Some also use various other forms of communication such as the written word, artwork, drama, narrative story or music.

Chrono Cross borrowed certain thematic elements, story points, characters, music, and objects introduced in Radical Dreamers — including the infiltration of Viper Manor, the Frozen Flame, the name Radical Dreamers for Kid's thievery, and the characters of Kid, Lynx, and Serge ( who became a non-speaking protagonist ).

Furthermore, by far the most commercially successful of this lot was Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars whose innovations in cinematic style, music acting and story decided the future for the genre.

The end sequence plays like music, not drama: It completes the story on an emotional, not a literal, level.

W. H. Auden called it " a pure verbal opera ", while The Times wrote that " The story is almost too preposterous to go without music.

Additionally, Amos is currently writing the music for Samuel Adamson's musical adaptation of the George MacDonald story The Light Princess for the Royal National Theatre, which was originally expected to debut in spring 2012 but has now been deferred.

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

That year, she agreed to sit down for an extensive interview with music journalist Mark Kemp for a cover story in the alternative music magazine Option.