Word: lymon
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...which sounded so heartfelt on last year's Escape Artist; the new version is like hearing 101 strings playing the Who's "My Generation." And "96 Tears" does not belong on another Garland Jeffreys album. He's been in the business for a decade, proclaims his allegiance to Frankie Lymon, so why doesn't he play something else to show...
...mother playing Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and the Mills Brothers, and he remembers, too, singing along with those old 78s by the time he was four. As he got older, he started listening to rhythm and blues: Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and, most of all, Frankie Lymon, whose high-flying vibrato could hang in the air like a white silk scarf. Music eased the loneliness. It was a neighbor, however, a painter who could talk knowledgeably about art and museums, who showed Jeffreys...
...cool inflections of his passion, however, keep the songs strong and upright, buttressed both by a flair for elegant concert showmanship and a voice that sounds like Frankie Lymon with a college education...
...Louis Lymon and the Teen Chords...
...Juvenile Deliquent--Frankie Lymon...