Frankie Lymon filled in for Santiago, however according to Jimmy Merchant, once the precocious Lymon became an established member of the group, his vocal talent and instinctive stage presence made him the obvious choice to be the group's lead vocalist, and Santiago graciously stepped aside.

In early 1957, Lymon and the Teenagers broke up while on a tour of Europe.

Lymon, staying at his grandmother's house in Harlem where he had grown up, celebrated his good fortune by taking heroin ; he had remained clean ever since entering the Army three years prior.

Lymon then brings up the piano.

During an engagement at the London Palladium, Goldner began pushing Lymon as a solo act, giving him solo spots in the show.

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.

This caused in-fighting, and by September Goldner had pulled Lymon out of the group to record solo.

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.

Goldner recorded some of the most important East Coast doo-wop music of the 1950s, including records by The Crows, The Wrens and The Valentines ( for Rama ), The Cleftones, The Five Crowns, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers and The Heartbeats ( for Gee ), The Chantels, Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Starlighters, and The Flamingos ( for End ) and The Dubs, The Channels, The Isley Brothers and The Trickles ( for Gone ).

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

The same year Lymon joined the group, he helped Santiago and Merchant rewrite a song they'd composed to create " Why Do Fools Fall In Love ".

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.

In December 1992, the U. S. federal court ruled that the rights to the song belonged to Herman Santiago and that Jimmy Merchant and Emira Lymon ( the true widow ) were also entitled to receive royalties dating back to 1969.

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

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 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.

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.

After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and those of the Teenagers fell into decline.

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

The Lymon family struggled to make ends meet, and Lymon began working as a grocery boy at age ten, augmenting his legitimate income with proceeds gained from hustling prostitutes and was known for having relationships with women twice his age.

At the age of 12, Lymon heard a local doo-wop group known as the Coupe De Villes at a school talent show.

Five or so minutes later the marine abruptly pulled up and stepped into sunlight, immediately throwing his hands over his eyes.

At least they hadn't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, flat, dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti, per favore.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

In the 10-year period, it is proposed that insect and disease control on the National Forest System be stepped up to a level of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations that will substantially reduce the occurrence of large infestations toward the end of the initial period.

Also, the program for fleet modernization will be stepped up in 1961 causing an increase in expenditures.

As we stepped out into the sunlight, a man came up to John Cool and silently showed him his hand.

The South African government has stepped up legal protection for the Blue Crane.

He was succeeded by Asquith, who stepped up the government's radicalism.

They soon gained a reputation for brutality, as the RIC campaign against the IRA and Sinn Féin members was stepped up and police reprisals for IRA attacks were condoned by the government.

In more recent years, they have stepped up the fight against money laundering, by limiting banking secrecy, introducing requirements for customer identification and record keeping, and requiring banks to cooperate with foreign investigators.

Nevertheless, this surge bore no fruit ; Cubans remained deprived of the right to send representatives to the Spanish parliament, and Madrid stepped up repression.

In the 1970s and 1980s Cuba stepped up its military presence abroad, especially in Africa.

After several Colorado at-bats, the bases were loaded and Ryan Spilborghs stepped up to the plate.

Throughout Christian history, some Popes, bishops and some Christian princes stepped up to protect Jews.

Tensions had risen between the two nations after the 1796 ratification of the Jay Treaty, made between the US and Great Britain was seen by French leaders as signs of an Anglo-American alliance, and France had stepped up seizures of American ships.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

After the emergence of the Taliban, Iran stepped up assistance to the Northern Alliance minority ethnic groups.

Himmler took over leadership of the RSHA and stepped up the pace of the killing of European Jewry in Aktion Reinhard ( Operation Reinhard ), named in Heydrich's honour.

It was quieted when the government stepped in passing the Crofters ' Holdings ( Scotland ) Act, 1886 to reduce rents, guarantee fixity of tenure, and break up large estates to provide crofts for the homeless.

Benjamin said, " Hezbollah maintains a presence in Europe and its recent activities demonstrate that it is not constrained by concerns about collateral damage or political fallout that could result from conducting operations there ... We assess that Hezbollah could attack in Europe or elsewhere at any time with little or no warning " and that Hezbollah has " stepped up terrorist campaigns around the world.

" In order to combat these issues, several organizations have stepped in to set up shelters for physically and sexually abused women, notably the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq ( OWFI ) and MADRE, among others.

Moves to make the IRA the army of the Dáil and not its rival had begun before the January attack, and were stepped up.

However, they warned that the recycling rates of some rare metals used in applications such as mobile phones, battery packs for hybrid cars and fuel cells are so low that unless future end-of-life recycling rates are dramatically stepped up these critical metals will become unavailable for use in modern technology.

Concurrently he stepped up his effort on LInear B, discovering finally that it was Greek, a revelation to an academic public that had more or less given up on the mysterious script.