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Frankie Lymon (center) and the Teenagers. Lymon was born in Washington Heights, New York City [9] on September 30, 1942, to Jeanette and Howard Lymon. Howard was a truck driver and Jeanette was a maid.
Taylor was the second of Frankie Lymon's three wives. In 1984, on behalf of Emira Lymon, a lawyer and artists' agent sued to wrest the copyright of Frankie's hit song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" away from the current owner. The case became confused when it looked like Lymon had a second and possibly a third widow.
Lymon was age 13 when the teenage group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers erupted from radios and jukeboxes with their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and appeared in the movie Rock, Rock, Rock (1956). After Mr. Rock and Roll (1957), Lymon started a solo singing career, but it all fell apart. Lymon's career was over by the time he was age 18 ...
Also in 1998, Fox starred alongside Halle Berry, Lela Rochon and Larenz Tate in the romantic drama film Why Do Fools Fall in Love, playing one of the three wives of singer Frankie Lymon. [16] The following year, she appeared in stoner comedy horror Idle Hands, and Teaching Mrs. Tingle with Helen Mirren.
Frankie Lymon was a New York-based American boy soprano and doo-wop singer who played a prominent role as the lead singer of the earliest boy band group The Teenagers, which the group consisted especially of boys in their early to late teenage years.
The lead singer, Frankie Lymon, passed away from an overdose at the age of 26, and the movie 1998 movie Why Do Fools Fall in Love was based on his life. Keystone - Getty Images “La Bamba” by ...
Legend has it that Beverly changed his first name to Frankie for the stage in homage to singer Frankie Lymon, who found fame singing doo-wop as part of the group Frankie Lymon and the teenagers.
Negroni was survived by his three children, two daughters and a son. [3] In 1993, Joe Negroni, Herman Santiago, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes—the original members of "the Teenagers"—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 2000, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. [4]