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"Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (initially "Why Do Birds Sing So Gay?") is a debut single by American rock and roll band Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers that was released on January 10, 1956. It reached No. 1 on the R&B chart, [2] No. 6 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, [3] and No. 1 on the UK Si
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love” was recorded by the vocal group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, and the doo-wop song about the perils of falling in love was an instant classic.
Why Do Fools Fall in Love was not a commercial success and met with mixed reviews; [32] the film grossed a total of $12,461,773 during its original theatrical run. [33] The song "Harlem Roulette" by the Mountain Goats, off its 2012 album Transcendental Youth, contains references to Frankie Lymon, to the song "Seabreeze", and to Roulette Records ...
The same year Lymon joined the group, he helped Santiago and Merchant rewrite a song they had composed to create "Why Do Fools Fall In Love". The song got the Teenagers an audition with George Goldner's Gee Records, but Santiago was too sick to sing lead on the day of the audition. Lymon sang the lead on "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" instead, and ...
"Fools Fall in Love" is a song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. [1] It was originally recorded by the Drifters, who took it to number 10 on the R&B chart in 1957. [2]
He went on to list the performances of "Edith and the Kingpin" and the title track as "the record's biggest stunners", feeling that the former's "spare live setting" worked to "uncover a mythic yarn of seduction and corruption" and praised the latter's pairing with "Why Do Fools Fall in Love".
Why Do Fools Fall in Love may refer to: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (song), a 1956 song by doo-wop group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers; Why Do Fools Fall in Love, a 1981 album by American singer Diana Ross; Why Do Fools Fall in Love, a 1998 film starring Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, Lela Rochon and Larenz Tate "Jaane Kyon" (transl.
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love" US Pop: 6 US R&B: 1 UK: 1 "I Want You to Be My Girl" US Pop 13 US R&B 3 "I Promise to Remember" US Pop 57 US R&B 10 "Who Can Explain?" 7 "The ABC's of Love" US Pop 77 US R&B 8 1957 "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent" UK 12 "Baby, Baby" 4