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Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers

语种

英语

厂牌

Gee

发行时间

1956年01月01日

专辑类别

录音室专辑

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专辑介绍

by Bruce Eder

The very first album issued on Gee Records -- with one of the most distinctive looking album covers of its period -- was also one of the longest in print of all 1950s rock & roll long-players, and one of the most under-appreciated. Even today, this record is kind of a revelation, despite its being around for 50-plus years -- the single was such a dominant format in rock & roll during the mid- to late '50s, that it's easy to forget just how good some early rock & roll albums were. The tendency in looking at the history of most acts of the period is to dwell on individual songs and 45 releases, and overlook what the rare long-player of the period can tell us. In seven sessions spread between December of 1955 and August of 1956, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers turned in a dozen takes that make up this album -- these included the group's huge debut hit "Why Do Falls Fall in Love," along with its B-side, the yearning ballad "Please Be Mine," and they're joined by the bouncy "Love Is a Clown" and the lament "Am I Fooling Myself Again," plus a few other slowies. But it's the jaunty numbers like "I Want You to Be My Girl" -- on which Frankie Lymon's pubescent falsetto plays the role of trumpet, ahead of Jimmy Wright's cooking sax break -- that steal the spotlight amid this uniformity of excellence. And buried in the middle of the credits are little clues about the personalities on hand and at work: a song copyright in the name of George Goldner, founder/owner of the label and a decent guy, but also an inveterate gambler, always losing money; and another two in the name of Morris Levy, the next-thing-to-a-gangster, who would buy out Goldner early in the year after this record was released -- plus a few copyrights naming Frankie Lymon (and one of Lymon and Levy), but not one in the names of Teenagers Jimmy Merchant, Herman Santiago, Sherman Garnes, or Joe Negroni, who would be forever shut out of a bigger share of the pie, despite evidence to the contrary concerning Merchant and Santiago, presented too late in court. ...