Comments on: FRANKIE LYMON AND THE TEENAGERS - “Why Do Fools Fall In Love?”

By: wichita lineman

wichita lineman — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:53:06 +0000

I, for one, would really appreciate it if you did, p^nk. Feel like I’ve gone to college in 1971 and all the older students are telling me what I missed out on a couple of years before…

Why Do Fools is incredibly FRESH. The appeal is all in the gymnastics and spontaneity, which is probably why covers of the song always sound so insubstantial.

Hats off to the British on this one. It stuck at no.7 in the US, Gogi Grant’s Wayward Wind and Pat Boone’s I Almost Lost My Mind being the American number ones.

By: a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit

a logged out p^nk s lord sukråt wötsit — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:47:03 +0000

i doubt it’s possible but it would be nice to try and reconstruct pre-haloscan comments actually — or try and recall what we personally had to say

By: rosie

rosie — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:07:27 +0000

I’m surprised nobody’s commented on this until now - well, not post Haloscan anyway.

This is still before my time but it’s still one of the tracks that evokes that period before my pop awakening. It still has the power to wriggle around in the head, and it’s so full of energy that seems to be itching to break free of its shackles. Something in the way Frankie sings - not the high-pitched precocity, which I’ll admit is irritating, but the way he seems to take it way too fast as if he can’t wait to break out.