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Jul 28, 2009 · Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers Meet the Elegants by Frankie Lymon released in 2009. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Jul 28, 2009 · Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers Meet the Elegants by Frankie Lymon released in 2009. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at All...
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 with all singles charting on at least one chart and one single's B-side, "Who Can Explain?", also charting.
- Frictional Success
- I’m Not A Know It All
- Please Be Mine
- Share
- I’m Not A Juvenile Delinquent
- Baby, Baby
- The ABCs of Love
- Who Can Explain It?
- I Promise to Remember
- I Want You to Be My Girl
While Lymon was the group’s frontman, there was one studio album that was produced. The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymonwas released in 1956 and brought forth five charted singles. There were additional band names this group was called before they were starting to be billed as Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers in 1957. This resulted in conflict amon...
“I’m Not a Know it All” was a cute love song sung by Frankie Lymon, who stood out so powerfully that it was understandable why he and his fellow bandmates were billed as Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers. It’s unfortunate circumstances from the industry’s decision to give this group the name it did result in the split-up as there was so much potential ...
If there is a perfect song to play on Valentine’s Day, “Please Be Mine” would be it. The Teenagers performed beautifully, as did Frankie Lymon, in one of two ballads that were recorded on the group’s only studio album they did together. Fans of the entire group during their brief time together can only imagine what the rest of the 1950s would have ...
“Share” was a doo-wop ballad that may not have charted on any official music charts, but is no less powerful a song than the rest that did. Not only as a supercharged song full of blues, rhythm, and soul, Share served as one of those slow down and enjoy the moment songs that should have seen a spot on the charts, but the industry was so blown away ...
“I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent” was a hit on the UK Singles Chart, as it peaked as high as number twelve in 1957. It served as an inspiration for a few other artists to cover the song, but none achieved any chart success like the Teenagers’ original. I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent was featured in the 1956 musical drama, Rock, Rock, Rock, as well as ...
On the UK Singles Chart, “Baby, Baby” became a number four hit for Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, thanks to its fast-paced doo-wop style. It was this group, plus its style of music, that served as the key influencer to bring to the American music scene the first British Invasion wave by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and...
The fourth of five charted singles from the album, The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon, charted as high as number eight on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and appeared at number seventy-seven on the US Billboard Hot 100. “The ABCs of Love” was a beautifully played declaration of love song only the youthful Frankie Lymon and The Teena...
“Who Can Explain It?” was on the B-side of the forty-five record that pulled off a rarity. As a hit on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, it charted higher at number seven than the hit single that was recorded on the A-side, which is the song listed immediately after this one. Immensely powerful, this song is so full of rhythm and soul t...
On the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, “I Promise to Remember” became a number ten hit in 1956, as well as charting at number fifty-seven on the US Billboard Hot 100. At the time, even today, nobody could hit those lyrical notes like Frankie Lymon, who was instrumental to the success of the Teenagers since the day he first joined the grou...
In 1956 as the second single released from the Teenagers’ debut album, “I Want You to Be My Girl,” became a number three hit on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. It also climbed up to number thirteen on the US Billboard Hot 100. The doo-wap style Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers delivered when they first burst onto the music scene served...
- Janey Roberts
New York doo-wop group centered around the talent of its 13-year-old frontman and lead singer Frankie Lymon, the Teenagers exerted an enormous influence on the early rock and roll and doo-wop scene, and hits such as “I’m Not a Juvenile Delinquent” or “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” clearly provided initial inspiration to Berry Gordy to ...
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Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, American vocal group popular in the mid-1950s, prime exponents of the doo-wop vocal style. The members were Frankie Lymon (b. Sept. 30, 1942, New York, N.Y., U.S.—d. Feb. 28, 1968, New York), Herman Santiago (b. Feb. 18, 1941, New York), Jimmy Merchant (b. Feb. 10,
