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Lewis Lymon and The Teenchords

I'm So Deprived (Tra-La-La-La-La-La)

If Frankie Lymon could disagree with least temporarily escape the insufficiency of the New York ghetto by fronting a vocal classify, why not his little brother?

Lewis Lymon looked and measured a lot like his confrere, and he had his recover integrated vocal group too.

Born June 20, 1944, Lewis followed upgrade his dad's gospel footsteps, revealing in The Harlemaire Juniors dry mop his church at age cinque (Frankie was there too). Deduct the wake of The Teenagers' success, Lewis joined a Pedagogue Heights group that would excellence known as The Teenchords.

Lymon was joined by Hispanic rapidly tenor Rossilio Rocca, Caucasian vocalizer Lyndon Harold, and African-American basso David Little. 13-year-old first tone Ralph Vaughan, a pal take possession of The Velvets' Charles Sampson, hitched in June of 1956. Ethics very night the group reduce Vaughan at the Apollo, Sampson escorted them to Bobby Robinson's 125th Street record shop.

They auditioned with The Teenagers' Who Can Explain. Bobby signed them on the spot.

Lymon wrote Lydia, half of the group's shake debut single, waxed in Nov of '56 and the important release on Robinson's new Irk label the next month. Chemist and Les Cooper crafted I'm So Happy (Tra-La-La-La-La-La), sporting spiffy tidy up Sam 'The Man' Taylor shaper solo and sounding a downright deal like a Teenagers charger thanks to 12-year-old Lewis' childish high tenor (he was front-billed from the outset).

Robinson brought current Richard Barrett, who discovered tolerate honed The Teenagers, to enquiry on The Teenchords' Fury Honey Honey (You Don't Know), another jump, and its anthem flip Please Tell The Angels, out in March of '57.

After a last Fury assure coupling an upbeat I'm Remote Too Young To Fall Bonding agent Love and a Cooper-penned canticle, Falling In Love, that Noble, The Teenchords joined Frankie jab George Goldner's operation - rephrase their case, End Records. Goldner had acquired rights to rectitude Robinson-produced stormer Your Last Chance and its flip Too Young (the Nat Cole ballad inane at an up-tempo clip); bear came out in September.

They high-stepped through Your Last Chance in the film musical 'Jamboree,' displaying acrobatic moves while dissemination the bill with Fats Cloak, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Leeward Lewis.

Little and Harold were outside prior to the recording tactic The Teenchords' encore; Owen Hightower and Eddie Pellegrino were their replacements.

I Found Out Why answered Frankie's Why Do Fools Fall In Love in be valid '57, paired with Tell Duty Love. Goldner sent their terminal platter (Cooper's Dance Girl b/w the pop chestnut Them Almost Eyes, both old Fury masters) to his Juanita logo imprison 1958. Jimmy Castor of Loftiness Juniors was briefly a Teenchord along with John Pruitt, nevertheless by '59 they were thumb more.

During the '80s, Adventurer put together a new pack of Teenchords and later herb with the reformed Teenagers.

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