(Early R&B / Doo Wop / Rock'n'Roll) Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers Complete Recordings (6 CD)) - 1994, MP3 (tracks), 320 kbps

01. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (2:22)
02. Please Be Mine (3:10)
03. Love Is A Clown (2:55)
04. Am I Fooling Myself Again (2:40)
05. I Want You To Be My Girl (version #2) (3:01)
06. I'm Not A Know-It-All (2:53)
07. Who Can Explain (2:13)
08. I Promise To Remember (2:53)
09. ABC's Of Love (version #2) (1:58)
10. Share (2:42)
11. I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent (2:47)
12. Baby Baby (2:09)
13. Paper Castles (2:06)
14. Teenage Love (2:14)
15. Together (2:30)
16. You (2:13)
17. It Would Be So Nice (2:34)
18. Out In The Cold Again (2:26)
19. Little White Lies (2:32)
20. Begin The Beguine (2:54)
21. Love Is A Clown (alt) (3:02)
22. I Want You To Be My Girl (version #1) (3:19)
23. I Want You To Be My Girl (version #2-alt.) (2:44)
24. I'm Not A Know-It-All (alt.) (3:02)
25. Who Can Explain (alt.) (2:13)
26. ABC's Of Love (version #1) (2:19)
27. I Promise To Remember (alt.) (3:10)
28. Share (alt.) (2:33)
29. Fortunate Fellow (1:49)
30. Love Put Me Out Of My Head (2:04)

01. Lost Without Your Love (2:13)
02. I'll Walk Alone (Without Love) (2:20)
03. Everything To Me (2:36)
04. Flip Flop (2:24)
05. Good Love (2:11)
06. Flop Hop (2:02)
07. Mama Wanna Rock (2:17)
08. My Broken Heart (2:31)
09. Crying (2:17)
10. Tonight's The Night (2:49)
11. Can You Tell Me (3:02)
12. A Little Wiser Now (3:21)
13. What's On Your Mind (3:01)
14. Love Me Long (2:47)
15. He's No Lover (2:26)
16. I Hear The Angels Cry (2:02)
17. The Wild Female (3:06)
18. Jean Of The Ville (2:35)
19. The Draw (3:06)
20. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (with the Count Basie Band) (3:12)
21. Please Be Mine (with the Count Basie Band) (3:22)
22. I Promise To Remember (with the Alan Freed Band) (3:11)
23. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (with the Alan Freed Band) (2:36)
24. Goody Goody (1:38)
25. It's Christmas Once Again (2:21)
26. Goody Goody (1:25)
27. The Only Way To Love (2:04)
28. Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Frankie & Louis?) (1:11)

01. Miracle In The Rain (2:11)
02. Yours (2:41)
03. Glow Worm (2:12)
04. Goody Goody (version #1) (2:20)
05. Love Is The Thing (2:55)
06. You Can't Be True (2:10)
07. Fools Rush In (3:23)
08. Too Young (2:52)
09. Over The Rainbow (2:59)
10. As Time Goes By (2:40)
11. Don't Take Your Love (3:22)
12. Ghost Of A Chance (3:04)
13. Goody Goody (version #2) (2:13)
14. Creation Of Love (2:29)
15. Blue Moon (3:06)
16. These Foolish Things (3:24)
17. You Were Only Fooling (version #1) (2:09)
18. Guilty (3:14)
19. So Goes My Love (2:25)
20. It's Christmas Once Again (2:23)
21. My Girl (1:56)
22. My Baby Just Cares For Me (1:52)
23. Somebody Loves Me (2:05)
24. Silent Night (2:33)
25. Little Girl (2:03)
26. Let's Fall In Love (1:42)
27. Thumb Thumb (2:18)
28. Portable On My Shoulder (2:18)
29. Footsteps (2:14)
30. That's The Way Love Goes (2:06)

01. Wake Up Little Susie (2:03)
02. Short Fat Fannie (2:34)
03. Waitin' In School (2:07)
04. Next Time You See Me (2:42)
05. Jailhouse Rock (2:17)
06. Send For Me (version #1) (2:31)
07. Buzz Buzz Buzz (2:08)
08. Searchin' (2:25)
09. Silhouettes (2:53)
10. It Hurts To Be In Love (2:21)
11. Diana (2:27)
12. Diana (alt.) (2:38)
13. Little Bitty Pretty One (2:44)
14. Mama Don't Allow It (2:28)
15. Girls Were Made For Boys (2:28)
16. Campus Queen (2:09)
17. The Only Way To Love (2:00)
18. No Matter What You've Done (2:52)
19. Melinda (2:02)
20. Ain't She Sweet (1:58)
21. Almost Out Of My Mind (version #1) (1:59)
22. Rockin' Tambourine (version #2) (2:10)
23. Danny Boy (2:25)
24. Up Jumped The Rabbit (2:27)
25. Before I Fall Asleep (2:24)
26. Prince Or Pauper (2:02)
27. What A Little Moonlight Can Do (2:24)
28. Deed I Do (2:12)
29. Since The Beginning Of Time (2:47)
30. Pardon Me Please (1:23)

01. The Magic Song (2:21)
02. A Kiss From Your Lips (2:21)
03. The Joke (version #1) (1:57)
04. The Rainbow (take 6) (2:13)
05. The Joke (version #2) (1:54)
06. Goody Good Girl (2:27)
07. Blessed Are They (2:06)
08. I'm Not Too Young To Dream (2:23)
09. Almost Out Of My Mind (version #2) (2:07)
10. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (2:12)
11. Lover Come Back To Me (2:19)
12. Change Partners (2:29)
13. So Young (2:03)
14. Young (2:02)
15. I Put The Bomp (3:12)
16. To Each His Own (2:17)
17. Teacher, Teacher (2:43)
18. Roll On (2:11)
19. Push And Pull (2:32)
20. Sweet And Lovely (2:36)
21. Somewhere (double vocal) (2:51)
22. Somewhere (stereo) (2:28)
23. I'm Sorry (2:01)
24. Seabreeze (3:21)

Frankie Lymon (1942-1968) and the Teenagers were a New York doo wop group consisting of Joe Negroni, Herman Santiago, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes, but centered around the extraordinary talents of their lead singer, 13-year-old Frankie Lymon. Lymon was credited with their first big hit, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (in the early '90s, a federal judge ruled after a lengthy trial that Lymon hadn't written "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" -- another member of the Teenagers had). His wise-beyond-his-years vocal and performing abilities not only made the Teenagers a group several notches above the competition but made Lymon the first black teenage pop star. Though only together for a brief 18-month period, Lymon & the Teenagers exerted an enormous influence, spawning several "kid" vocal groups and providing initial inspiration to Berry Gordy to model his entire Motown production approach around Lymon's original vocal style. Inexplicably, the group split into two factions at the height of their success, and neither had a hit again. Lymon died from a drug overdose at age 26. Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Len Barry, and his principal protégé, Michael Jackson (whose early recordings with the Jackson 5 are virtual re-creations of the early Lymon sound, merely updated) all show the influence of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers' groundbreaking work.

This five-CD set contains more Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers than any casual fan has likely ever thought of listening to, much less owning. Only one of its five CDs is less than satisfying, yet only a portion of this collection contains music that is actually important to the history of rock & roll. The first disc contains everything that Lymon and the Teenagers recorded together for official release. By the second disc, we're already into the Teenagers' recordings without Lymon, as well as live performances by Lymon and the Teenagers from The Ed Sullivan Show and various Alan Freed concert events. The final three discs are made up entirely of Lymon's solo sides from 1957 through 1968. From the 20 or so familiar early songs, one hears them "progress" to the later numbers, where their vocalizing became more sophisticated and subtle, but less cohesive. Disc three opens the Frankie Lymon solo material, and with all due respect to his memory, it's a disaster. His early solo sides, from 1957 through early 1958, tried to appeal strictly to pop listeners, with results that had no beat or any other serious appeal. Disc four finds him back on track, featuring 30 entertaining and engaging rock & roll songs that show Lymon in extraordinarily good voice. Disc five continues with Lymon's recordings for Columbia in 1964 to his final records in 1968. The sad and surprising part is that a lot of it isn't bad at all. Lymon's voice matured into a fairly nondescript instrument, but he could still put a good song over, as many of these later tracks show.