I just don't know what to say but this kid had a voice of angels MAN I just can't stop listening to his music and videos!!!! His life was full of joy and tragedy.... RIP Frankie he is singing up in heaven....
Frankie Lymon is the best talent I've ever heard. Such a gift he had I don't even know if he knew how good he was or not. Me being a singer myself and to hear him sing especially at that age gives me chills. He sang and did things with his voice that even veterans couldn't do. Only if he could of survived his struggles with drugs we could of been seeing the next Sammy Davis Jr. If not even better in my opinion. Rest in piece Frankie Lymon hope your singing in the streets of gold with your golden voice and perhaps one day I'll finally get to meet with you and even sing "Why do fools fall in love" with the greatest talent I've had the pleasure of hearing. Till then.. Jason Sarmiento
Wen they perform his song why do fools fall in love they dont mention Frankie LYMAN ! Why hate he was young and he was lied too. I cry wen I hear his beautiful voice❤
Frankie Lymon n Sam Cooke are my two favorite singers of all time. Frankie's #1 always! Man, I woulda loved to see him perform his later songs from 1965 & 68 that he never had a chance to perform. They were just as good as when he was a kid. He just grew up! RIP Frankie Lymon.
Bro I'm 19 years of age and this guy voice is one of the most beautiful voice I have ever heard I watch the movie 3 days ago and I have been on TH-cam Google yahoo trying to get information about this guy it's so sad that he had no one solid to prevent him from taking the drugs😢😢😢
anthony riley I know this comment is old, but it’s very hard to find info on him that isn’t Wikipedia. Even specific things like his height I can’t find.
First time I’ve watched his videos - this kid was really talented, handsome and very charismatic. Like the greats Nate King Cole & Sam Cook. Truly a shame that he was taken advantage of and introduced to drugs at such a young age. Well one beautiful things for sure, his music will live on forever💕☺️
When I was a kid, I love this song, I would hear it walking down the street and would stand still to listen and feel very special inside. I was only near 6-8 years old with a full bag of candy from the store from a quarter I spent. Funny though until 1968 I always thought it was a female singer. I just loved the song!
Why are they looking at Frankie like he wasn’t the best singer in their time? Frankie was a handsome good spiritual man. He just needed some guidance by him being so young. FRANKIE I LOVE YOU
He was talented. He made his mistake when he left the group for he needed that true brotherhood to help him with his addictions and keep him straight. Sad waste of life.
+monmixer He was right to leave the group because he was the group. His mistake was the drugs he started at an early age. When you stop and start back that person is very likely to OD.
This kid was everything music singers hope for in 1 now adays.Great singer,good dancer,child star,besides the tragic story...he should be more famous...In history of Famous hollywood cliche,this kid started it all...
He would of had a very sucessfull career in the film industry .... Natural charisma . Even later on in the last sessions he still had the charm and the spark . I wish he had better people around him to help ..
I remember walking down my streets in the 60s and right when I had to turn right on my corner this man would always have songs playing and you can here from outside his window and I remember I used to just stand there and listen and jam out ! Really cool seeing this
The best kiddie soprano of all time ... especially live on stage. Sad to think he left this world at 25 years, and that the bass Sherman died in 1977 on the operating table, and baritone Joe (Jose) died the following year in '78 of illness.
10:33. When you're high everything's great. A junkie's life is a fast paced adventure. I'm sure music was just secondary to Frankie in these later years. Good upload!
SUCH SWAG SO LOVABLE NOT FAIR HUGE TALENT HE COULD'VE RECOVERED NOW HALF OF SINGERS OR SO CALLED STARS ARE ALL DRUGGED JUSTIN BEAVER JUST TO NAME A FEW.
i miss my first cousin frankie who taught me how to sing when we both lived with our grandmother i look at frankie he was my big brother i never had i always miss u my cousin until the day i died my mentor for life.
to my cousin frankie lymon you taught me well how to sing since i been a little boy back home with grandmother. i always happy to see you when i was a kid i will always miss you my cous forever love you until enturnity your cousin my mentor phil harris, jr.
i love the good times we had at home with grandma and the fun things you have done for me i loved when i was in your room at home i love to watch you reherse your songs. i personaly that you train me very well how too sing i thank you frankie r.i.p. love your cousin phill harris, jr.
I remember reading Rock Star by The Late Jackie Collins and there was a fellow just like Frankie Lymon. He was Bobby Mondella a Country & Western Singer who was a teenager, but when his voice changed, he found out who his real friends were. They all but washed their hands of him, even stealing his Songwriting Catalogue. He worked for several years as a Men's Room Attendant ant a Studio 54 Nightclub and nobody knew who he was. He made a comeback but it was so bone chilling to see what happened to him. 1313perulee, nobody cares about these children. They get "Used" to make Bank and then they find out who their real friends are. Look at Aaron Carter, I feel he's going to be another Rock Tragedy. As far as I'm concerned, alot of these Boy Bands should look at these Performances and see how it was "really" done back in the day.
Everybody saying what a waste of talent what if we would have never heard him at all that would have been the waste but we did so his talent wasn't wasted
Love Frankie! Sadly only one of those performances was truly live. He can dance though! I believe he had a Christmas performance that he did live and he sang in.
-Frankie & The Teenagers had the potential to go far & would still be a well known group like The Temptations, Smokie & The Miracles, The Shirelles, etc. But worthless managers robbing kids & other groups of their $$$, was common. Then the Teenagers 1950's NYC slum neighborhood had all the urban sidetracks to make things worse, drugs, gangs, Frankie's involvement with drugs, women, bad management decisions to break up the group & push Frankie solo. Then his voice changed as he got into his late teens. And more drugs & 3 wives. Eventually he made his worst & final decision in 1968. But he could have still gone far. -r.i.p.
D'Angelo Davis exactly its like they gave him that record deal just to receive his rights or something. idk it just seems fishy he was clean for 3 years and as soon as he gets a new record deal hes like "oh might aswell do heroin one last time" he may have been drugged and killed who knows
Im 17 n I heard why fo fools fall in love on the mafia 2 n ilike mostly rap but I was like damn, I gotta kno who sing that song lol this dude was crazy with his vocals
He certainly delivers in the last song..love it..he is sooooooooooo uummmm...and those moves..just want to jump up and dance with him...Frankie was a sexy dude..love him..swagerlicious...!!
But it's clear the all the white girls knew they couldn't smile or swoon or look like they actually adored him... they would have been in a lot of trouble back at home when Dad saw the TV show!
It's Christmas Once Again is from 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 22nd December 1957 (a semi-official VHS tape made up lots of fictional names such as 'The Ted Steel Show' to avoid copyright!).
His voice was incredible ❤i wished he lived longer i wish he had more people behind him who wasn't trying to use him or take a advantage and i think he fell hard into drugs after he spilt from the teenagers and he lost his mom in 1961 🕊️🤍
OMG I was just looking at that shit like how would you know if Franky was black or white if you didn't have a damn colored tv.. lol white folks steal a nigga everything my goodness
Rest in peace Frankie Lymon😢😢😢😢
Goody Goody video totally amazing.... It showcase his naturally born talent as a singer/entertainer...RIP Franky!!!
I can't stop listening. Such a God given talent.
Wished somebody could have better protected this young man, what a talent!!! Rip!!!
I agree...💔
The elites destroyed him.
@@ursulasmith6402 and drugs.
Dont be a mark. Addicts do what they do.
@@eugenemalush9284 He was a kid turned out by adults
His voice was out of this galaxy!
Loved the way he dressed back then. So much class. Some of the male singers of today need to take note.
Mainly hip hop rap artist's I won't say any names.
It was koooooool 👍 back then,✌🏻👍🏼👌💞💞💞💞💯
True, at times you can tell what color underwear they are wearing.🫤
I just don't know what to say but this kid had a voice of angels MAN I just can't stop listening to his music and videos!!!! His life was full of joy and tragedy.... RIP Frankie he is singing up in heaven....
Frankie Lymon is the best talent I've ever heard. Such a gift he had I don't even know if he knew how good he was or not. Me being a singer myself and to hear him sing especially at that age gives me chills. He sang and did things with his voice that even veterans couldn't do. Only if he could of survived his struggles with drugs we could of been seeing the next Sammy Davis Jr. If not even better in my opinion. Rest in piece Frankie Lymon hope your singing in the streets of gold with your golden voice and perhaps one day I'll finally get to meet with you and even sing "Why do fools fall in love" with the greatest talent I've had the pleasure of hearing.
Till then..
Jason Sarmiento
Jason Sarmiento very beautiful comment !!!
Jason Sarmiento 😢
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Wen they perform his song why do fools fall in love they dont mention Frankie LYMAN ! Why hate he was young and he was lied too. I cry wen I hear his beautiful voice❤
The very very best👏🙏
Frankie had vocals, his voice is so beautiful
+Lanee Occhipinti
Greatest raw talent of voice in popular music I can recall.
+dave d 👍
Why do I feel like if this guy was born in our generation he would be the Weeknd? or maybe Im drunk....
Cognitive Dissonance no that sounds accurate lol
yes it is
Frankie Lymon n Sam Cooke are my two favorite singers of all time. Frankie's #1 always! Man, I woulda loved to see him perform his later songs from 1965 & 68 that he never had a chance to perform. They were just as good as when he was a kid. He just grew up! RIP Frankie Lymon.
I really love "Goody goody"!!
Frankie's voice was supernatural. And that base guy is also the truth
His voice is just killer and his performances leave you speechless. What an entertainer.
I sing way better than him but no body cares:(
@@Omar_Zazzleoh my goodness no you did not just say you sing better than the legendary Frankie Lymon?
You wonder if there was ever a time in his short life he was truly happy. It seemed like what he wanted most was to just perform for the masses.
Frankie Lymon was Definitely A Once in a Lifetime Talent! Sauve, Debonair, Talented, So Charismatic & Way Ahead of His Time!💖👑
Bro I'm 19 years of age and this guy voice is one of the most beautiful voice I have ever heard I watch the movie 3 days ago and I have been on TH-cam Google yahoo trying to get information about this guy it's so sad that he had no one solid to prevent him from taking the drugs😢😢😢
anthony riley I know this comment is old, but it’s very hard to find info on him that isn’t Wikipedia. Even specific things like his height I can’t find.
Some older woman he got with got him hooked on heroin.
First time I’ve watched his videos - this kid was really talented, handsome and very charismatic. Like the greats Nate King Cole & Sam Cook. Truly a shame that he was taken advantage of and introduced to drugs at such a young age. Well one beautiful things for sure, his music will live on forever💕☺️
When I was a kid, I love this song, I would hear it walking down the street and would stand still to listen and feel very special inside. I was only near 6-8 years old with a full bag of candy from the store from a quarter I spent. Funny though until 1968 I always thought it was a female singer. I just loved the song!
L. G. Maybe because he was 13 ... he was a child lmao
Frankies RAW unbelievable talent brings me to tears Every Single Time
he's an act of nature
a phenomena
🙌
love listening to him. He was most definitely ahead of his time. Rip
The Little Dude was so talented.
Why are they looking at Frankie like he wasn’t the best singer in their time? Frankie was a handsome good spiritual man. He just needed some guidance by him being so young. FRANKIE I LOVE YOU
He was talented. He made his mistake when he left the group for he needed that true brotherhood to help him with his addictions and keep him straight. Sad waste of life.
+monmixer He was actually off of drugs for 3 years before he overdosed taking heroin to celebrate a new record deal. Sad.
+monmixer He was right to leave the group because he was the group. His mistake was the drugs he started at an early age. When you stop and start back that person is very likely to OD.
Ahhh but we know who Frankie is. No one will remember who I am.
well yeah but he only left for you know 😞\-HEROIN!!!
Dude you have no idea what your talking about
Great stage presence, great vocals, he was a good entertainer
This kid was everything music singers hope for in 1 now adays.Great singer,good dancer,child star,besides the tragic story...he should be more famous...In history of Famous hollywood cliche,this kid started it all...
He would of had a very sucessfull career in the film industry .... Natural charisma . Even later on in the last sessions he still had the charm and the spark . I wish he had better people around him to help ..
What an incredible performer. Absolutely unique.
I remember walking down my streets in the 60s and right when I had to turn right on my corner this man would always have songs playing and you can here from outside his window and I remember I used to just stand there and listen and jam out ! Really cool seeing this
Frankie is just too cute and can sing so good.
THE best ever.
The best kiddie soprano of all time ... especially live on stage. Sad to think he left this world at 25 years, and that the bass Sherman died in 1977 on the operating table, and baritone Joe (Jose) died the following year in '78 of illness.
Lloyd Brunetti it's weird they all died young
Why was Sherman having an operation?
Magnificent The greatest of all time.
10:33. When you're high everything's great. A junkie's life is a fast paced adventure. I'm sure music was just secondary to Frankie in these later years. Good upload!
His incredible talent is evident in this video on Goody Goody. Check out Over the Rainbow and Out in the Cold Again for even greater evidence.
love goody goody 😂😂😂 the ultimate shade song
Who influenced this kid in music 💯 truly amazing to be so good at that age in that era
SUCH SWAG SO LOVABLE NOT FAIR HUGE TALENT HE COULD'VE RECOVERED NOW HALF OF SINGERS OR SO CALLED STARS ARE ALL DRUGGED JUSTIN BEAVER JUST TO NAME A FEW.
The deep voice guy was a cutie...and frankie voice is pure talent
This was one of his most attractive performances! #LovePutMeOutOfMyHead
frankie dident seem like a 50's kid he had a certain swag to him that made his different not including his voice
Yup
That voice and foot work is awesome!!!
i love my late frist cousin frankie lymon who was my mentor in music who trained me to be a singer always love you cous from phil harris jr.
i miss my first cousin frankie who taught me how to sing when we both lived with our grandmother i look at frankie he was my big brother i never had i always miss u my cousin until the day i died my mentor for life.
to my cousin frankie lymon you taught me well how to sing since i been a little boy back home with grandmother. i always happy to see you when i was a kid i will always miss you my cous forever love you until enturnity your cousin my mentor phil harris, jr.
i love the good times we had at home with grandma and the fun things you have done for me i loved when i was in your room at home i love to watch you reherse your songs. i personaly that you train me very well how too sing i thank you frankie r.i.p. love your cousin phill harris, jr.
Liar.. Shit up no one believes you .. Hey I am puff daddies cousin😂😂😂
Giggles crying tears.. lmfaoo. Omg.
Este chico me alegra el día, excelente artista. cantante, bailarín, compositor, cada gesto es un derroche de alegría.
Este joven,si no hubiera sido por su prematura muerte, hubiera sido uno de los grandes de la música.Paz a su alma.
I remember reading Rock Star by The Late Jackie Collins and there was a fellow just like Frankie Lymon. He was Bobby Mondella a Country & Western Singer who was a teenager, but when his voice changed, he found out who his real friends were. They all but washed their hands of him, even stealing his Songwriting Catalogue. He worked for several years as a Men's Room Attendant ant a Studio 54 Nightclub and nobody knew who he was. He made a comeback but it was so bone chilling to see what happened to him. 1313perulee, nobody cares about these children. They get "Used" to make Bank and then they find out who their real friends are. Look at Aaron Carter, I feel he's going to be another Rock Tragedy. As far as I'm concerned, alot of these Boy Bands should look at these Performances and see how it was "really" done back in the day.
🎵 TRUE HISTORY🎶🥳🌹👍🏻🇺🇲
Everybody saying what a waste of talent what if we would have never heard him at all that would have been the waste but we did so his talent wasn't wasted
Only ONE Frankie Lyman
They should have had **Gary Colman** play him in a Move ($$$$)
Still lit in 2018🔥🔥🔥
Love Frankie! Sadly only one of those performances was truly live. He can dance though! I believe he had a Christmas performance that he did live and he sang in.
-Frankie & The Teenagers had the potential to go far & would still be a well known group like The Temptations, Smokie & The Miracles, The Shirelles, etc. But worthless managers robbing kids & other groups of their $$$, was common. Then the Teenagers 1950's NYC slum neighborhood had all the urban sidetracks to make things worse, drugs, gangs, Frankie's involvement with drugs, women, bad management decisions to break up the group & push Frankie solo. Then his voice changed as he got into his late teens. And more drugs & 3 wives. Eventually he made his worst & final decision in 1968. But he could have still gone far. -r.i.p.
No doubt. A lot of artists were ripped off back then. Sad story.
I really believe Frankie was murdered. He was clean for 3 years and then he finally gets another record deal and goes back to drugs?
D'Angelo Davis exactly its like they gave him that record deal just to receive his rights or something. idk it just seems fishy he was clean for 3 years and as soon as he gets a new record deal hes like "oh might aswell do heroin one last time" he may have been drugged and killed who knows
@@Relivelive how is that.
👏👏👏lo maximo frankie lymon. Saludos desde peru
Great musical gems from one of the most talented but tragic musical groups of all time!
I had the privilege of hearing this group some out of this world acapella.
Thank you so much for posting. I'm a big DoWoop fan and I never saw this footage.
Im 17 n I heard why fo fools fall in love on the mafia 2 n ilike mostly rap but I was like damn, I gotta kno who sing that song lol this dude was crazy with his vocals
leland rivera same as fuck haha
I see a little Sammy Davis. He didn't have the right people around to look out for him. He was amazing ❤
He certainly delivers in the last song..love it..he is sooooooooooo uummmm...and those moves..just want to jump up and dance with him...Frankie was a sexy dude..love him..swagerlicious...!!
But it's clear the all the white girls knew they couldn't smile or swoon or look like they actually adored him... they would have been in a lot of trouble back at home when Dad saw the TV show!
bloody brilliant 😊😊😊
Nice lad, i liked his character and performance.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. The Guy is just great. Frankie had a lot of swag. He is one of a kind.
Frankie the legend
very talented brother
what a gorgeous kid :'( shame on his record label and manager :'(
They are not Lipsyncing the footage is just older then 50 years
frankie was so amazing
That's a real player and makes player today look like their in training. If you now what I'm talking about.
Such an amazing talent.
I love you frankie lymon!!!
Great. Great. Voice message
He has the voice as an angle
Little bitty pretty one was 1960❤️
wow what a beatifull time, tnx for these music
Frankie voice is PERFECT !!! its amazing now a days erbody needs a lil auto tune smh
Soooo cute!
Love This!!!
Dammmm, such a big loss
That voice omg
No one makes any decisions to breakup or go on. His handlers did that.
Good dance moves❤
It's Christmas Once Again is from 'The Ed Sullivan Show', 22nd December 1957 (a semi-official VHS tape made up lots of fictional names such as 'The Ted Steel Show' to avoid copyright!).
nice video your the only one with this on the web
LEGENDS
at the very last performance wat the hell is wrong wit those girls?? there jus lookin around poppin gum! like come on this is frankie lymon live!!!!
Divine group vocals... no one found on earth like them...
I love him, thanks for posting this! :)
I love frankie I like
sou muito fã frankie lymon
the last videon was the one when he was on drugs right ??
Its crazy how the only two original teenagers that lived the longest is the ones that stood side by side while performing..
Yea kinda make you think of the messiah..
His voice was incredible ❤i wished he lived longer i wish he had more people behind him who wasn't trying to use him or take a advantage and i think he fell hard into drugs after he spilt from the teenagers and he lost his mom in 1961 🕊️🤍
rip frankie lymon
Mr. magnificent
love this....thanks sooooo much!
love it :)
Could be a great estar of rock n roll
He did pretty good for himself, he was a one-hit wonder
identical twins- Frankie on first clip and Queen Latifah. Shut up and look again until you get it............Got it now?
LOL...you're as bad as P.J. Soles in the original Carrie. LOL
For a split second 😂
The last song, those people look like who is that
Boy slavery day was a mess.... When Frankie did the Christmas song, Im like... Frankie was not this bright!!! SMH! Very sad
OMG I was just looking at that shit like how would you know if Franky was black or white if you didn't have a damn colored tv.. lol white folks steal a nigga everything my goodness
Interesting observation
He was already a lighter skin brother tho ...