Word: dede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Girl Can't Help It or The T.A.M.I. Show, because The Idolmaker is something else, and less. I recalls one withered branch of pop nostalgia: the South Philly sound of Fabian and Frankie Avalon, which is to genuine early rock as Fritos are to grits. Frankie sang of Dede Dinah and sounded like the revenge of the adenoids. Fabian, legend has it, could sing on key only on alternate Thursdays, and his records were said to be creative sutures of dozens of different takes. Frankie will be remembered as the wet blanket at the Beach Party movies; Fabian...