The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    9 years before the Jackson 5 was founded; first time on national tv

    By artappraiser on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 5:30pm |

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    Amazing, incl Lymon's voice & poise, whole tragic career, drug addiction, bigamy, and the stealing of song credits and royalties. 

    Someone was talking about the remarkable "youth" of the 22-year old poet at Biden's inauguration - i kept thinking of much younger musicians, and here's a great example.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Lymon


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 6:20pm

    More New Yorker stuff


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 7:00pm

    Lebowitz, it is a New York thing. You wouldn't understand.


    by moat on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 9:03pm

    you have to laugh that Swisher thinks of 'over-analyzing" as a negative here.


    by artappraiser on Tue, 01/26/2021 - 3:25am

    Message: She was an extremely wholesome schoolgirl:


    by artappraiser on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 7:58pm