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Artist: The Teenagers Title: The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon Label:   Gee Country: USA Catalogue: GLP-701 Date: Dec 1956 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  3 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Teenagers	Why Do Fools Fall In Love	Frankie Lymon, George Goldner	Rate
A2	The Teenagers	Please Be Mine	Frankie Lymon, George Goldner	Rate
A3	The Teenagers	Who Can Explain	Abner Silver, Roy Alfred	Rate
A4	The Teenagers	Share	Irving Reid, Vic Abrams	Rate
A5	The Teenagers	Love Is A Clown	Grace Goldner	Rate
A6	The Teenagers	I Promise To Remember	Jimmy Castor, Jimmy Smith	Rate
B1	The Teenagers	I Want You To Be My Girl	George Goldner, Richard Barrett	Rate
B2	The Teenagers	I'm Not A Know It All	Buddy Kaye, Fred Spielman	Rate
B3	The Teenagers	Baby, Baby	Milton Subotsky, Glen Moore	Rate
B4	The Teenagers	ABC's Of Love	George Goldner, Richard Barrett	Rate
B5	The Teenagers	Am I Fooling Myself Again	George Goldner	Rate
B6	The Teenagers	I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent	George Goldner	Rate

Notes

In 1955, Frankie Lymon had formed "The Teenagers," which was one of the first rock and roll groups that consisted of adolescent boys that had achieved national and international fame. Mr. Lymon was the lead singer who composed the tunes Why Do Fools Fall In Love and Please Be Mine.

The other four members were Sherman Garnes, the bassist, Joe Negroni, the baritone, Herman Santiago, the first tenor and Jimmy Merchant, the second tenor. With the exception of I'm Not A Juvenile Deliquent, the first four singles of this group had reached the national hit parades of both the Billboard and Cash Box discs of 45 rpm. Afterward, the group had failed to garner national success until the tune "Goody Goody," had reached the top 20 position of the Billboard hit parade of discs of 45 rpm. Accordingly, the Gee label had beome a failed record label simply because the once prosperous groups of the Cleftones and the Teenagers had no longer attracted national music fame.

After the Gee label was sold to Roulette records, the tunes that Mr. Lymon had issued failed to reach neither the popular, nor the rhythm and blues hit parades. The final tune of Mr. Lymon that had made the national hit parade was Little Bitty Pretty One, which had peaked at position # 58.

This Teenagers album is the first disc of 33.33 rpm of the Gee label, which peaked at positon # 19 by means of the Billboard hit parade of albums partly due to the national success of eight of the twelve tunes of this disc. This group had never issued another disc of 33.33 rpm and shortly after the release of this disc, the Teenagers had disbanned.

Lastly, Mr. Lymon had ided of a substance overdose in the basement of the home of his grandparents.

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Various Artists - Teenage Party / Rock And Roll - Gee - USA (1956)

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