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(Real Gone Music) 81 Tracks - 1956-1962 - Includes the singles and albums of Frankie Lymon &... more

Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers: The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD)

(Real Gone Music) 81 Tracks - 1956-1962 - Includes the singles and albums of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers as well as Lymon's solo records, a single of the teenagers without Frankie, and recordings by his brother Lewis Lymon with the Teen Chords!

Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers were a New York doo-wop group consisting of Joe Negroni, Herman Santiago, Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Garnes, who grouped around the extraordinary talent of their lead singer, 13-year-old Frankie Lymon, who already excelled on their first big hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love". His singing and performing skills, far beyond his actual age, not only made The Teenagers a far above average group, but also made Lymon the first black teen pop star. Although Lymon & the Teenagers only worked together for 18 months, Lymon & the Teenagers developed a tremendous influence, enabling the emergence of various "Kid" vocal groups and providing Berry Gordy with an important inspiration to orient his original Motown productions to Lymon's original vocal style.

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Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 1
01 Why Do Fools Fall In Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
02 Please Be Mine Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
03 Who Can Explain Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
04 Share Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
05 Love Is A Clown Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
06 I Promise To Remember Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
07 I Want You To Be My Girl Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
08 I'm Not A Know It All Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
09 Baby, Baby Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
10 The Abc's Of Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
11 Am I Fooling Myself Again Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
12 I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
13 Teenage Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
14 Paper Castles Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
15 Out In The Cold Again Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
16 Miracle In The Rain Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
17 Good Goody Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
18 Creation Of Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
19 Everything To Me The Teenagers
20 Flip Flop The Teenagers
Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 2
01 Waitin' In School Frankie Lymon
02 Wake Up Little Suzie Frankie Lymon
03 Silhouettes Frankie Lymon
04 Next Time You See Me Frankie Lymon
05 Send For Me Frankie Lymon
06 It Hurts To Be In Love Frankie Lymon
07 Jailhouse Rock Frankie Lymon
08 Diana Frankie Lymon
09 Buzz Buzz Buzz Frankie Lymon
10 Searchin' Frankie Lymon
11 Short Fat Fannie Frankie Lymon
12 Little Bitty Pretty One Frankie Lymon
13 My Girl Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
14 So Goes My Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
15 Little Girl Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
16 It's Christmas Once Again Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
17 Thumb Thumb Frankie Lymon
18 Footsteps Frankie Lymon
19 Portable On My Shoulder Frankie Lymon
20 Mama Don't Allow It Frankie Lymon
21 The Only Way To Love Frankie Lymon
22 Melinda Frankie Lymon
Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 3
01 Let's Fall In Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
02 Somebody Loves Me Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
03 Fools Rush In Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
04 You Were Only Fooling Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
05 My Baby Just Cares For Me Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
06 Too Young Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
07 Yours Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
08 Why Do Fools Fall In Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
09 Please Be Mine Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
10 I Promise To Remember Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
11 Why Do Fools Fall In Love Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
12 My Broken Heart The Teenagers
13 Mama Wanna Rock The Teenagers
14 Crying The Teenagers
15 Tonight's The Night The Teenagers
16 Can You Tell Me The Teenagers
17 A Little Wiser Now The Teenagers
18 What's On Your Mind The Teenagers
19 The Draw The Teenagers
Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 4
01 Up Jumped A Rabbit Frankie Lymon
02 No Matter What You've Done Frankie Lymon
03 Goody Good Girl Frankie Lymon
04 Im Not Too Young To Dream Frankie Lymon
05 Chance Partners Frankie Lymon
06 So Young (And So In Love) Frankie Lymon
07 Young Frankie Lymon
08 I Put The Bomb Frankie Lymon
09 Lydia Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
10 I'm So Happy (Tra-La-La-La-La-La Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
11 Honey, Honey (You Don't Know) Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
12 Please Tell The Angels Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
13 I'm Not To Young To Fall In Love Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
14 Falling In Love Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
15 Too Young Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
16 Your Last Chance Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
17 I Found Out Why Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
18 Tell Me Love Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
19 Dance Girl Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
20 Them There Eyes Lewis Lymon & The Teenchords
Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers Frankie Lymon was born in New York City on September 30,... more
"Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers"

Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers

Frankie Lymon was born in New York City on September 30, 1942. His father, an amateur singer, sang with a church group and soon had his young sons, Howard, Jr., Frankie, and Lewis, working in a junior version of his group. By 1954, Frankie and Howard, Jr. were playing bongos and congas in a mambo group called the Esquires. Besides appearances at Frankie's school, Edward W. Stitt Junior High in Washington Heights, the Esquires made at least one showing at the Apollo Theater's Amateur Night.

Like all schools in the Greater New York area in the early 1950s, Stitt had its share of amateur singers. Among those at Stitt were Jimmy Merchant and Sherman Marlow Garnes. Merchant, born February 10, 1940, had been singing since he was nine years old. He and Garnes, born June 8, 1940, shared a love of harmony singing. They joined two neighborhood friends, Joe Negroni, born September 8, 1940, and Herman Santiago, born February 18, 1941, and called their group the Ermines with Santiago as first tenor, Merchant second tenor, Negroni baritone, and Garnes bass. After seeing ex-schoolmates, the Cadillacs, as guests at one of the school talent shows, the boys picked a new name, Coupe DeVilles.

They already knew Frankie, who lived right across the street from Santiago, and at a rehearsal at the school, Frankie asked if he could sing along with the Coupe DeVilles on a few of their songs. The 12-year old slipped into the harmony routines quickly and showed an exuberant show business flair. Both the Lymon group and The Coupe DeVilles did well on the amateur show and Frankie began singing with the older guys from that point on. He did the high tenor voice in the harmony parts and duets with Santiago, and the quintet called themselves the Premiers. Santiago was the usual lead singer and the songs they sang were the R&B hits of the day such as Hearts Of Stone, Work With Me, Annie, Have Mercy Baby and Shake A Hand.

The presence of a 12-year old was not all that unusual. 'Kid stars' such as Little Esther, Teresa Brewer, and the nine-year old boogie-woogie star Sugar Chile Robinson, have always had a place in the music business. Best of all, the Premiers even had a few original, unpublished songs to sing, a definite requirement for success in the business. Original material was the key that opened the doors to recording studios. The record company could publish a hit song and collect the royalties, and most insisted on new material from new un-tried artists.

The Premiers all worked together to come up with new songs. Herman Santiago brought in a catchy rhythm number about "going downtown" (a favorite teenage activity in the 1950s) called I Want You To Be My Girl. In the audience for one of the Premiers' amateur shows was Richard Barrett, whose own Valentines were enjoying a hit record. Barrett knew the Premiers. He lived above the grocery store where Frankie was working and had often heard the group singing on the street corner. Besides singing lead for the very popular Valentines, Barrett worked as a talent scout for George Goldner's Rama/Gee Records and he invited the Premiers to audition for the company. One of the songs they tried out was Why Do Birds Sing So Gay with Frankie doing the lead, and Goldner was impressed with the song and Frankie's voice. He said Frankie should sing lead from then on and apparently it was Goldner's idea to change the lyrics and title to Why Do Fools Fall In Love, and also change their group name to The Teenagers.

There are several versions of the origin of the group's most famous song. Some say it came from a neighbor in Sherman Garnes' building, some say Frankie wrote it himself, others claim it was written by Herman Santiago and Jimmy Merchant. Years of litigation later, Why Do Fools Fall In Love is credited to Morris Levy and Frankie Lymon. There's lots of money for copyright owners, much more than the performers ever see if they don't read the fine print on their contracts. Jimmy Merchant recalled,

"We were ignorant. We did not understand contracts. We didn't know what publishing was. We didn't know about percentages. They said 'We'll take care of you, the money will be there when you turn 21' and we believed them."

The song was first credited to Frankie Lymon and George Goldner. Goldner claimed that he changed the song from the way it was originally written into the version that was recorded. Frankie's name in the credits was allegedly supposed to help market the song as "a teenager's love poem." Aware that Frankie was as ignorant of copyrights and publishing as the rest of them, Merchant and Santiago couldn't hold a grudge against him. Merchant said,

"Frankie barely did anything on that song. It was Herman and me. In the beginning I was angry at Frankie, but through the years I began to realize that he was completely manipulated by those people."

To further muddy the waters, Goldner sold his company in 1964 to Morris Levy, and wrote a letter to the Register of Copyrights saying that Levy should be listed as coauthor of the song. Levy, on the other hand, said that Frankie sold all of his rights to him for between 1000 and 1500 dollars. Over the years the battle for the rights to Why Do Fools Fall In Love raged on. At one point, three women claiming to be Frankie's 'widows' stepped into the courts demanding their share of the lucrative copyright. After all the litigation, the song is now credited to Frankie Lymon and Morris Levy and their heirs and assignees receive substantial amounts of money as the song continues to be recorded and performed. It has become one of the great standards of rock 'n' roll.

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Tracklist
Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 1
01 Why Do Fools Fall In Love
02 Please Be Mine
03 Who Can Explain
04 Share
05 Love Is A Clown
06 I Promise To Remember
07 I Want You To Be My Girl
08 I'm Not A Know It All
09 Baby, Baby
10 The Abc's Of Love
11 Am I Fooling Myself Again
12 I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent
13 Teenage Love
14 Paper Castles
15 Out In The Cold Again
16 Miracle In The Rain
17 Good Goody
18 Creation Of Love
19 Everything To Me
20 Flip Flop
Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 2
01 Waitin' In School
02 Wake Up Little Suzie
03 Silhouettes
04 Next Time You See Me
05 Send For Me
06 It Hurts To Be In Love
07 Jailhouse Rock
08 Diana
09 Buzz Buzz Buzz
10 Searchin'
11 Short Fat Fannie
12 Little Bitty Pretty One
13 My Girl
14 So Goes My Love
15 Little Girl
16 It's Christmas Once Again
17 Thumb Thumb
18 Footsteps
19 Portable On My Shoulder
20 Mama Don't Allow It
21 The Only Way To Love
22 Melinda
Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 3
01 Let's Fall In Love
02 Somebody Loves Me
03 Fools Rush In
04 You Were Only Fooling
05 My Baby Just Cares For Me
06 Too Young
07 Yours
08 Why Do Fools Fall In Love
09 Please Be Mine
10 I Promise To Remember
11 Why Do Fools Fall In Love
12 My Broken Heart
13 Mama Wanna Rock
14 Crying
15 Tonight's The Night
16 Can You Tell Me
17 A Little Wiser Now
18 What's On Your Mind
19 The Draw
Lymon, Frankie & The Teenagers - The Doo Wop Collection 1956-1962 Plus (4-CD) CD 4
01 Up Jumped A Rabbit
02 No Matter What You've Done
03 Goody Good Girl
04 Im Not Too Young To Dream
05 Chance Partners
06 So Young (And So In Love)
07 Young
08 I Put The Bomb
09 Lydia
10 I'm So Happy (Tra-La-La-La-La-La
11 Honey, Honey (You Don't Know)
12 Please Tell The Angels
13 I'm Not To Young To Fall In Love
14 Falling In Love
15 Too Young
16 Your Last Chance
17 I Found Out Why
18 Tell Me Love
19 Dance Girl
20 Them There Eyes