Frankie Avalon News

 
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Beach blanket beauty: The swinging '60s of Donna Loren
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Some pretty big stars had featured songs in the "beach party" movies of the 1960s: Stevie Wonder, Nancy Sinatra, Dorothy Lamour, Dick Dale and, of course, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. So how did Donna Loren — whose claim to fame then was as ...


 
Surfing Magazine (blog)
InfluencING Kilian Garland
Surfing Magazine (blog)
I've been hitting up hulu.com and refreshed myself on Beach Party — trying to study Frankie Avalon's dance moves. It's a surf classic and must see. Martin Scoresse's Boardwalk Empire and all the HBO and Showtime series.


 
Music Producer Rocks Old-School In Digital Era (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post (blog)
He is a record producer who has worked with such greats as Sammy Davis Jr., c, Ella Fitzgerald and Frankie Avalon. On the business front, he is the CEO of SRI Entertainment Group, a Los Angeles based independent record company that carries classic jazz ...


 
Metrowny.com
A Conversation with Tony Orlando
Metrowny.com
and now I'm sitting here with you and you're showing me pictures of you and Frankie Avalon, who you just interviewed, and telling me about some of the others you've done. I told you that you had the ability to do this and you did it.


 
Lessons Learned From John Edwards
Philadelphia Magazine (blog)
Then, when I was a teenager, my mother made me get Frankie Avalon's autograph at the Italian Market Festival. He was really excited. I didn't have the heart to tell him that I had no idea who he was, so I hugged him and said I was a big fan.

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Metrowny.com
A Conversation with Frankie Valli
Metrowny.com
Back in the day of teen idols like Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydel and Fabian, you found they were surrounded with management that were very careful about their reputations. And, parents were more concerned with the reputation of their children.


 
Monthly Elks Dance Helps Keep Doo Wop Alive
Patch.com
Strains of “Blue Velvet,” Chuck Berry's “School Days,” and Frankie Avalon crooning “Venus,” moved some couples to the dance floor. Others lined up at the snack bar for orders of '50s-style fare like burgers, fries, pretzels and fizzy sodas.