April 8, 2016

219 Frankie Lymon (1942-1968) and the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall In Love” 1956

“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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