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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:50 PM
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Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers or SMokey Robinson and the miracles?
One came a bit later than the other...but still should be a good battle.....discuss!
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:53 PM
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1. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
on account of Smokey has one of the world's greatest voices. And Franky Lyman does not.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:55 PM
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2. Smokey

Lymon made some terrific records--until his voice changed, at which point he became just another uninteresting pop crooner. Plus, he neither wrote nor produced any of his own material.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 06:57 PM
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3. Smokey
Lymon was great but Smokey had stamina
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 07:01 PM
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4. Lymon sucked, Smokey rocked. What else is there to say?
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 07:05 PM
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5. That you don't know what you're talking about!

As I said before, Lymon was a damned fine singer until he hit puberty. Then, and only then, did he suck!
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 07:22 PM
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6. i don't even have to listen to a Miracles record
i can just replay them all in my head i heard them so many times

but Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers?

i know the name, but i can't place any of their songs

refresh my memory, what did they sing?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 07:24 PM
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7. Little bitty pretty one, why do fools fall in love, goodie goodie...
the list goes on
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Laughing Mirror Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 07:43 PM
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8. oh yes, i remember those tunes
and they were great, but none of them loom large in my mind the way the Miracles songs do (it became Smokey Robinson and the Miracles later if i recall correctly
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GabysPoppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:02 PM
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9. Why do Fools Fall in Love
Was the only Lymon & the Teenagers hit mentioned above

Little bitty was Clyde MacPhatter

Goody Goody was Frankie Lymon by himself
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:09 PM
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12. Maybe written by Cluade but it was sung by the Teenagers
As far as goodie goodie. the question really was meant more towards who had a better voice I just put in the bands because they deserved their due.
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GabysPoppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:13 PM
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13. I owned the Clyde McPhatter version
which is why I mentioned it
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:14 PM
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14. Is it any good?
Never have heard it
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GabysPoppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:18 PM
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15. Very good
I also think it was his first single sometime after he did "White Christmas" with the Drifters
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:06 PM
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23. Actually, the original "Little Bitty Pretty One" is from 1957...

...and is by Bobby Day & The Satellites. It became a top ten hit when Thurston Harris covered it.

Frankie Lymon's "Little Bitty Pretty One" came out in 1960, and McPhatter's in '62. Both charted, but Thurston Harris had the biggest hit with that song.
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mbartko Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:06 PM
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10. Smokey. Is this a rhetorical question?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:07 PM
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11. Nope
Frankie had good tunes he deserves some credit
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mbartko Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:40 PM
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21. Sure.
But SMOKEY.
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GabysPoppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:22 PM
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16. I think I am wrong about Clyde MacPhatter
It was Thurston Harris

my bad
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:23 PM
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17. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers WITHOUT a doubt!!!
"Goody, Goody"

"I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent"

"Little Bitty Pretty One"!!!

and of course WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE! Which is also one of my favorite movies :)



So you met someone who set you back on your heels - goody goody
So you met someone and now you know how it feels - goody goody
So you gave him your heart too, just as I gave mine to you
And he broke it in little pieces, now how do you do

So you lie awake just singin' the blues all night - goody goody
So you think that love's a barrel of dynamite -
Hooray and hallelujah, you had it coming to ya
Goody goody for him - goody goody for me -
And I hope you're satisfied you rascal you!
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:24 PM
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18. Wow one for Frankie
That's good I was worried.
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:19 PM
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26. Quality not quantity lol ;)
Frankie ROCKS!!! Tonight I feel like rushing out to get the movie "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" just to hear those songs! :)
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:28 PM
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19. They both sucked, and Smokey is utterly, totally overrated.
Glad I could clear that up.

"Cruisin was made for love......"
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:34 PM
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20. yikes someone has a real problem with these two
Who are your favs then?
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 08:43 PM
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22. It's all about the funk, my bruva
Mainstream romantic soul of the early 1960's variety bores me to tears.

Damn, but that man is as vanilla as soul ever got, and I include the Righteous Brothers in that calculation.

Give me Jerry Butler any day. Smokey was vapid from day one. The John Tesh of soul.

I have no faves. I just know a human sleeping pill when I hear one.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:08 PM
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25. Well, that explains it! You prefer beat to emotion.

No wonder you can't appreciate Smokey Robinson. The tyranny of the dance beat has thump-thumped your musical tastes into submission!
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 05:40 PM
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28. There's 'emotion', or hollow wankage, and there's Emotion
Like how the fine folks in funk play.

Smokey sux. No exceptions.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-03 09:07 PM
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24. Hey yo, clear THIS up!


"Character Assassin," indeed!
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 12:12 AM
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27. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
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