“Before Michael Jackson could
walk--much less moonwalk--there was Frankie Lymon, rock's original pint-size
sensation. Backed by his fellow doo-woppers, the Teenagers, Lymon was barely a teen
himself (14, to be exact) when his first record, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall
in Love?," catapulted him from Manhattan street corners to global fame…
"'He was the first black teenage star,’ recalls his cousin Phil Harris”
(Karlin Campbell, People, 1998).
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