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Vote: | A nice smell reminds me of girls. I like a girl to smell nice! |
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Vote: | Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took. |
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Vote: | I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it. |
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Vote: | I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen. |
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Vote: | I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man. |
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Vote: | I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that. |
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Vote: | I was not a trained actor. |
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Vote: | I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point. |
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Vote: | I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners. |
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Vote: | I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life. |
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Vote: | I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician. |
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Vote: | If you weren't shooting, you were rehearsing lines or a song or pre-recording a song. |
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Vote: | It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s. |
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Vote: | It was nothing but pure fun. |
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Vote: | It's amazing to me how this show has captured kids who are 8, 20, 40, 60 years old. |
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Vote: | Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs. |
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Vote: | No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne. |
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Vote: | Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum. |
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Vote: | Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing. |
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Vote: | The kids have all seen it on DVD or videotape. |
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Vote: | These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run. |
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Vote: | They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style. |
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Vote: | They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well. |
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Vote: | Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time. |
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Vote: | What you must realize is that the kids are always teenagers - but he's an angel, so he's ageless. |
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Vote: | When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. |
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Vote: | Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age. |
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Francis Thomas Avallone (born September 18, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an actor and teen idol in the 1950s and early 1960s.
By the time he was 12, Avalon began making appearances on U.S. television for his trumpet prowess, and as a teenager, played with Bobby Rydell in a band known as Rocco and the Saints. In 1959, his songs Venus and Why both went to No.1 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100.
During the 1960s, Avalon became known for his roles in the beach film genre. Later, he became the U.S. national television spokesperson for Sonic Drive-In.
Frankie Avalon married Kathryn Diebel on January 26, 1962. Still together, the couple has 8 children. In her autobiography, gossip queen Rona Barrett revealed that Avalon fathered a girl, born in December 1960, by a fan. Barrett was the assistant to Avalon's manager, Robert Marcucci, at the time.
In 1987 Avalon and Annette Funicello returned to the movies, with the aptly titled Back to the Beach.
He was mentioned (unflatteringly) in the System of a Down song "Old School Hollywood."
Songs *"Cupid"
*"Venus"
*"Why?"
*"Cupid"
*"Dede Dinah"
*"You Excite Me"
*"Ginger Bread"
*"What Little Girl"
*"I'll Wait You"
*"Bobby Sox to Stockings"
*"A Boy Without a Girl"
*"Two Fools"
*"Just Ask Your Heart"
*"Beauty School Dropout"
*"Swinging On A Rainbow"
*"Don't Throw Away All Those Teardrops"
*"Where Are You"
*"Tuxedo Junction"
*"Don't Let Love Pass Me By"
*"Togetherness"
*"The Puppet Song"
*"A Perfect Love"
*"All of Everything"
*"Who Else But You"
*"True, True Love"
*"You Are Mine"
*"A Miracle"
...(more on Wikipedia)
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Frankie Avalon".
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