The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon
1956 studio album by The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon
The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon | |
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Studio album by The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon | |
Released | December 1956 |
Genre | Rock and roll |
Length | 31:05 |
Label | Gee |
Singles from The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon | |
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Allmusic | [1] |
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.[2]
Track listing
All songs credited to Morris Levy except where noted.1
- "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (Frankie Lymon/Levy) – 2:32
- "Please Be Mine" (Lymon/Levy) – 2:29
- "Who Can Explain" (Abner Silver/Roy Alfred) – 0:42
- "Share" (Vic Abrams/Jimmy Merchant) – 2:41
- "Love Is a Clown" (George Goldner) – 0:45
- "I Promise to Remember" (Jimmy Castor/Jimmy Smith) – 2:53
- "I Want You to Be My Girl" – 0:44
- "I'm Not a Know It All" (Buddy Kaye/Fred Spellman) – 3:33
- "Baby, Baby" (Milton Subotsky) – 2:27
- "The ABC's of Love" – 3:05
- "Am I Fooling Myself Again" – 3:00
- "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent" – 5:32
Note
- 1Songwriters listed above are as they are listed on the album. Songs credited to Levy have been disputed.
Personnel
- Frankie Lymon – lead vocals
- Joe Negroni – baritone vocals
- Sherman Garnes – bass vocals
- Herman Santiago – first tenor vocals
- Jimmy Merchant – second tenor vocals [3]
Charts
- Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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1956 | "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 |
References
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- Frankie Lymon
- Jimmy Merchant
- Herman Santiago
- Joe Negroni
- Sherman Garnes
- Billy Lobrano
- Howard Kenny Bobo
- The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon
- "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
- "I Want You to Be My Girl"
- "I Promise to Remember"/"Who Can Explain?"
- "The ABC's of Love"
- "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent"
- "Teenage Love"
- "Out in the Cold Again"
- "Everything to Me"
- "My Broken Heart"
- "Can You Tell Me"
- "The Lemon-Twist Dance"
- A Teenager's Dream: Why Do Fools Fall in Love