Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

Born in Detroit, Frankie Lymon was just 13 when and his group The Teenagers scored a hit with Why Do Fools Fall In Love? in 1956. Finding themselves overnight sensations the group left school and started performing full-time.

Subsequent hits included I Promise To Remember, I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent and Teenage Love.

By the age of 18 though, Frankie Lymon had seen success go as quickly as it came and he moved into nightclub singing. He died in 1968 of a drug overdose.