Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Teenagers \u2014 three Black, two Puerto Rican \u2014 from Washington Heights, a neighbourhood north of Harlem, were far more streetwise than the adoring public who bought their records might have imagined.\u00a0\u201cI never was a child,\u201d Lymon said in a 1967 interview. \u201cI was a man when I was 11 years old, doing everything that most men do. In the neighbourhood where I lived, there was no time to be a child. While kids my age were playing stickball and marbles, I was working in the grocery store carrying orders to help pay the rent.\u201dWhen not delivering groceries, Lymon harmonised\u00a0on street corners with local youths,\u00a0joining a quintet called\u00a0The Premiers. Richard Barrett, a doo-wop singer employed by Goldner as his right-hand man and talent scout, heard The Premiers and arranged an audition. Goldner picked out a number called \u201cWhy Do Birds Sing So Gay\u201d. Herman Santiago, the group\u2019s tenor, had developed the song from lines in a love letter passed on to him by a neighbour in the projects when he complained of lacking inspiration. Goldner, who produced a remarkable run of hits across 1953-1965, sensed that Lymon\u2019s soprano was something special, so anointed the youngest and smallest member of the group (now called The Teenagers, at Goldner\u2019s insistence) as their lead singer. He also renamed the song \u201cWhy Do Fools Fall in Love\u201d. Goldner and Lymon made adjustments to the track in the studio: when it was released, Santiago-Lymon-Goldner shared the writing credit, while the label read \u201cThe Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon\u201d.\u00a0The sheer exuberance of \u201cWhy Do Fools Fall in Love\u201d, and Lymon\u2019s soaring voice, made it a huge hit and established The Teenagers as the first teen stars of the rock\u2019n\u2019roll era. Lymon embraced fame and its trappings with a fury \u2014 sex, drink, drugs (he was addicted to heroin aged 15). After several lesser hits, the group (now called Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers) split while performing in London in early 1957.\u00a0Frankie Lymon didn\u2019t live to see the song enjoy a lucrative afterlife. His post-Teenagers career fizzled quickly and he died of a heroin overdose in 1968, aged 25, having never received a cent in royalties. Goldner, an inveterate gambler, sold his label and publishing rights to Morris Levy, a mob-affiliated thug who ruthlessly fleeced his artists. After Ross scored her hit with \u201cFools\u201d, Lymon\u2019s three wives \u2014 he never divorced any of them \u2014 all went to court claiming they were entitled to his royalties (the song\u2019s writers now being credited as Levy-Lymon). After a protracted legal process, a New York judge ruled that Elizabeth Waters was Lymon\u2019s genuine widow and entitled to royalties from \u201cFools\u201d. Herman Santiago\u00a0then\u00a0tried to get his name back on the publishing of the song he originally composed; he succeeded, but a US appeals court determined\u00a0that he had left it too long. \u201cWhy Do Fools Fall in Love\u201d stands as a reminder of how\u00a0teenage dreams and music industry practice often collide \u2014 these Teenagers probably wished they\u2019d never sung beyond the street corners of Washington Heights.Let us know your memories of \u2018Why Do Fools Fall in Love\u2019 in the comments section belowThe paperback edition of \u2018The Life of a Song: The stories behind 100 of the world\u2019s best-loved songs\u2019, edited by David Cheal and Jan Dalley, is published by ChambersMusic credits: ISIS; Parlophone; Capitol; Rhino<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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