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.

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 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.

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 ).

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

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.

Lymon's troubles extended to others after his death.

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

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

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.

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

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 music and story were re-introduced to modern audiences with Why Do Fools Fall in Love, a 1998 biographical film directed by Gregory Nava, also the director of the Selena biopic.

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.

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

Tuberculosis as a young man left Randolph beardless and high-voiced.

* Paulie Herman, an annoying, high-voiced young man from New Jersey ( This was the only recurring character he performed during the Jean Doumanian years.

One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.

that theory was and is sound.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Your suggested solution, it seems to me, is grossly oversimplified and is inconsistent with your generally realistic attitude toward, and endorsement of, sound planning.

Where then is the sound planning and cooperation between agencies within the community that you have called for in other editorials??

He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.

Through the SBA's Management Counseling Program, practical, personalized advice on sound management principles is available upon request to both prospective and established businessmen in a community.

It is a sound investment.

Another example is the recent cancellation of the F-108, a long-range interceptor with a speed three times as great as the speed of sound, which was designed for use against manned bombers in the period of the mid-1960's.

Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.

Aeschbacher's work is very much akin to Schnabel's, but the sound on his Decca disc is dated, and you will have a hard time locating a copy of it.

Telefunken has accorded him beautiful sound, and this bargain-priced disc ( it sells for $2.98 ) is worthy of consideration.

Yet it is the accumulation of distortion, the fitting together of fractional bits until the total reaches the threshold of our awareness, that makes records sound like records.

He is going sound again now, and looks good.

The travel time of sound in tissue is about 1500 meters per second ; ;

He believes that this is a sound approach to gas competition in builder developments where gas is available.

The sound mockery of sheep is like the salubrious horse laugh ''.