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    album called Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers at the London Palladium was instead issued as a Lymon solo release. As a solo artist, Lymon was not nearly...
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    Freed. 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...
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  • The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon is the only album by The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon and was released in 1956. The album featured five singles...
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    pioneer and songwriter who was previously a member of the vocal group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. He (disputedly) co-wrote the group's iconic hit "Why...
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    rock and roll pioneer and founding member of the rock and roll group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Negroni's family moved from Puerto Rico to New York...
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    Birds Sing So Gay?") is a debut single by American rock and roll band Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers that was released on January 10, 1956. It reached No...
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    weekly rock n roll guests such as LaVern Baker, Clyde McPhatter and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. The radio program was also referred to as "Alan Freed's...
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    Zola Taylor (category Frankie Lymon)
    second of Frankie Lymon's three wives. In 1984, on behalf of Emira Lymon, a lawyer and artists' agent sued to wrest the copyright of Frankie's hit song...
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  • 1997, Tate appeared as Ford Lincoln Mercury in The Postman. He played Frankie Lymon in the biopic Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998). One critic praised Tate's...
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    that newcomer Frankie Lymon's voice would be better in the lead, Santiago's original version was not recorded. To suit his tenor voice Lymon made a few alterations...
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  • Why Do Fools Fall in Love (film) (category Frankie Lymon)
    Gregory Nava. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the true story of Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock and roll group The Teenagers for...
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  • player Frankie Lymon (1942–1968), African-American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer Frankie Manning (1914–2009), American dancer Frankie Miller (born...
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    Bowties and can be seen after the performance of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. This was also Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' film debut. Almost every member...
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  • is a song written by Jimmy Castor and Jimmy Smith and performed by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers featuring Jimmy Wright and His Orchestra. It reached...
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  • Lymon may refer to: Frankie Lymon (1942–1968), American singer and songwriter Selwyn Lymon (born 1986), American football wide receiver Lymon, a portmanteau...
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  • across racial boundaries. Among the acts he discovered were the Crows, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and Little Anthony and the Imperials. He established...
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  • Peter (2 December 2018). "Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers (1954-57)". BlackPast. Johnson, Gary (21 December 2020). "Frankie Lymon's Tombstone Blues 2: The...
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  • Juvenile Delinquent" is a song written by George Goldner and performed by Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers for the 1956 film Rock, Rock, Rock!, which also appeared...
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  • David Foster Four Tops Francis and the Lights Franglish Frankee Frankie J Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers Aretha Franklin Farrah Franklin Four of Diamonds...
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  • Diana (Paul Anka song) (category Frankie Lymon songs)
    Amigos, and released it as a single in 1996. CD Single "Diana" – 3:41 Frankie Lymon released a version of the song on his 1958 album Rock 'N Roll. Brazilian...
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    popular dancing school in the 1950s, while Ronnie became fascinated with Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. In 1957, Ronnie formed the group later known as the...
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  • with Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni. This group, with the addition of Frankie Lymon, later became The Teenagers and had a hit song with Why Do Fools Fall...
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    Goldner and Richard Barrett and performed by The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon. It reached #3 on the U.S. R&B chart and #13 on the Billboard pop chart...
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  • Hear You Knockin'"), the Diamonds (The Gladiolas' "Little Darlin'" and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"), the Crew Cuts (the Chords'...
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  • Goody Goody (category Frankie Lymon songs)
    Orchestra (vocal by Terry Shand), and by Bob Crosby & His Orchestra. Frankie Lymon performed it live on television on several occasions, including twice...
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  • to Joel's musical influences, the song is presented in the style of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. It reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and...
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  • of the high tenor sound,[citation needed] that would culminate with Frankie Lymon. Grant was 16 years old when his first record was cut. This was probably...
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  • doo-wop artists of the 1950s include The Platters, Dion and the Belmonts, Frankie Lymon, The Five Satins, The Flamingos, and The Del-Vikings. While the popularity...
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    which featured record promoter Alan Freed and singers Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, and Johnny Burnette. In the film Connie Francis performed the vocals...
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    school, he performed with his family's band, two shows a night, covering Frankie Lymon and Little Anthony. When he was a child he had a small version of a...
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