“After Frank Sinatra became an elder statesman, before David Cassidy and Davy Jones took over Tiger Beat and in between Elvis Presley and The Beatles, the pop idol who made the girls swoon was South Philly's own Bobby Rydell. Born April 26, 1942, Rydell won a TV talent show for children and never looked back. He charted with 'Kissin' Time' in 1959, had a string of gold records, became the youngest headliner ever at New York's Copacabana in 1961, [and] starred in the 1963 movie version of Bye, Bye Birdie opposite Ann-Margret and Dick Van Dyke” (Howard Gensler, Philadelphia Daily News, 3/24/2016).
Bobby Rydell “Wild One”
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